Posted in Auto News on Apr 1st, 2010
Two southern California residents are going off the grid, but staying on the road. To meet their electrical energy needs, Peder and Julie Nordby, installed solar panels on the rooftop of their home. They also got a BMW Mini E. Their home’s rooftop solar panels generate 12,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year — enough to [...]
Posted in Auto News on Mar 26th, 2010
General Motors has announced three Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V) concepts that showcase the car maker’s notion for what an urban mobility vehicle of the future might look like. Developed in conjunction with GM’s partner in China, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., the EN-V concept vehicles riff on a recent project that was developed with help from Segway. [...]
Posted in Auto News on Aug 14th, 2009
During the next year, the University of California Davis will be asking volunteer drivers of BMW’s all-electric MINI Es how they use the cars and how they like them. The answers will be collected in online surveys, during interviews, and collected from information in travel diaries. UCD, which has a dedicated Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle [...]
Posted in electric on Aug 9th, 2009
Shocking news: Electric vehicles can be fast, too. Case in point, Tesla Motors new Roadster. Even though they’ve been around for about a century, electric vehicles have never really got that much respect. But that could change now that Tesla’s zero-emissions Roadster — which can travel about 220 miles on a single charge — has [...]