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University of Michigan Next Generation Solar Car

Published on Mar 12 2013 // Energy, Home and Lifestyle, solar energy, transportation

The name of the University of Michigan‘s next solar car, which will be one step closer to resembling a real-world vehicle, is “Generation,” the U-M solar car team announced today at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. U-M’s national champion team is...

70,000 EVs Just The Beginning

Published on Mar 12 2013 // electric vehicles, Energy, Home and Lifestyle, transportation

Renault and Nissan have together already sold an impressive 70,000 electric cars, but that’s just the beginning according to their CEO, Carlos Ghosn. When speaking at the Geneva Motor Show last week, he stated that the EV automotive landscape was changing, along with people’s perceptions of the vehicles. “The...

Honda Recycling Rare Earth Materials From Used EV Batteries

Published on Mar 04 2013 // Home and Lifestyle, transportation

Electric vehicles are becoming more and more important to the future of a green planet Earth, with production and sales increasing worldwide. Vehicle manufacturers the world over are making electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles a priority, and adjunct companies focusing on recharging and distance...

New Audi A3 e-tron Plug-In Hybrid With 201 HP To Debut At Geneva Motor Show

Published on Feb 28 2013 // Home and Lifestyle, transportation

In the next two weeks, Audi is going to introduce its latest Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) at the Geneva Motor Show, which is hosted annually in Geneva, Switzerland. Audi A3 e-tron visualization. The latest A3 e-tron propulsion system comprises a 1.4 litre TFSI turbocharged gasoline...

Hands-on Learning With Bike Powered Generators: Can You Explain What A Watt Is?

Published on Feb 27 2013 // Energy, transportation

What exactly is a watt? Can you feel it? If you remember from your last physics class, you could say it is a unit of power, one Joule per second, or a rate of energy usage. All of these answers are correct, of course, but what do they mean? How can we relate to a watt? This is the question we asked over...

Tesla Motors Expects Small Profit In Q1 Of 2013; Reports $306 Million Revenue In Q4 Of 2012

Published on Feb 21 2013 // electric vehicles, Energy, transportation

Tesla Motors expects to make a small profit in the first quarter of 2013, with the critically acclaimed Model S especially helping to move EV company slowly into profitable territory. Green Car Congress notes that Tesla’s 2012 fourth quarter revenues were $306 million, a whopping 500% increase from...

Buy an Electric Vehicle, Get Cheap Solar Power

Published on Feb 21 2013 // Energy, Home and Lifestyle, solar energy, transportation

Now that the dust has settled on the Tesla vs. New York Times battlefield, weren’t we just saying that electric vehicles are selling quite well? That’s partly because car manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to get a foothold in the EV market before the competition really heats up. In the...

More Than 1.4 Million Autogas Vehicles Will be Sold Annually Worldwide by 2020, Forecasts Pike Research

Published on Feb 20 2013 // Energy, transportation

BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With a cost per gallon significantly lower than gasoline or diesel in many countries, and at least an initial existing infrastructure, the vehicle market for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), otherwise known as propane or autogas, seems poised for growth. However,...

How Are Electric Vehicles Selling? Quite Well!

Published on Feb 20 2013 // Energy, energy efficiency, transportation

Reposted from EVObsession: Nissan Leaf via Nissan One of the most common myths repeated and repeated and repeated in mainstream media (and even in cleantech and EV media) is that plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) aren’t selling well. Quite to the contrary, for this stage of the technology’s evolution,...

1 Thing I’ve Learned From The Tesla–NYTimes Firestorm

Published on Feb 19 2013 // Home and Lifestyle, transportation

This article has been reposted from EVObsession. We’ve written several articles on the Tesla–NYTimes (or Tesla–John Broder) story. But way beyond the specifics of that actual story, several electric vehicle topics keep coming up in other bloggers’ or reporters’ articles about the story, and...