Solar powered airplane will fly across US this year
During the time we wrote about solar powered planes as electric vehicles. We did it especially talking about the Electra One the German project which has developed a full electric powered airplane with an amazing range of 300 miles which is using solar energy. The Switzerland Solar Impulse team which already completed an intercontinental flight [...]
Toyota recently updated its Facebook cover photo with a rainbow colored vehicle. This bright thing first shown off at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2011 seems to be the Fun Vii concept. Toyota has been testing for year’s fuel cell hybrid vehicles. Fun Vii Concept put a hydrogen fuel powertrain into a body of a [...]
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The primarily inconvenience for an electric vehicle is the charge time. Now with the fast charging, a tremendous difference appeared. The Chevy spark is offering a fast charging option that will charge the vehicle in only 20 minutes. This mean it is more feasible to recharge each electric vehicle when is almost out of range. [...]
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Things are going further in order to develop the best electric highway concept. As we also write about these subjects during the time there were many attempts. This time at the Dutch Design Week the Better Highway Concept took the most important award. Winning team composed by Heijmans Infrastructure and designer Daan Roosegaarde dreamed up [...]
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Saab becomes the electric car automaker which was secured as the iconic Swedish brand after it was saved by Asian investors. National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), headed by entrepreneur Kai Johan Jiang and backed by Asian investors outlined the intention to launch its first electric vehicle based on the current Saab 9-3, in 2014, and [...]
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Volvo shows this summer its new diesel plug-in hybrid car V60 at Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester. The Swedish automaker decided to go on sale in the UK at the end of the year at a price of £48,700 and possible with an expected discount of £5,000 from the government’s plug-in hybrid car grant [...]
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Shabtai Hirshberg has graduated the Transportation Design MFA program at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, with a thesis called “Redesigning Commercial Aircraft” and based on extensive research on the commercial aviation market. Its project is an aircraft able to fly due a hybrid engine and to land on water. The industrial designer [...]
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Electric vehicle charger deployment inFranceseems to be very slow. Renault decided to install electric vehicle charger around the country free to use. Laurence Frost and Gilles Guillaume of Reuters write that “A century after French tire maker Michelin issued road signs to help early motorists find their way, Renault and Japanese affiliate Nissan are preparing [...]
Continue reading …Colorado law to encourage installation of electric vehicle charging stations
June 28, 2012 No Comment
As written in a Green Autoblog article’s a new state law will take effect in August and for only $5,000 you will get the permit to sell electricity at an electric vehicle recharging station. Governor John Hickenlooper says that new law will encourage more business to install electric vehicle recharging station. Colorado has more than [...]
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Daimler starts the production for next generation Smart Fortwo ED urban electric car. Fortwo ED has a bigger electric motor from EM-motive with a 55kW magneto electric motor, and gets a higher top speed of 75 miles per hour at a range of 90 miles. The urban electric car Smart ED has a new 17.6 [...]
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