FORD HAS A BETTER IDEA: HYBRIDS
Following General Motors announcement of the Volt, Ford Motor Company has just announced two new hybrids for 2010: (Only 7 years after the first Priuses hit the streets!) The Ford Fusion Hybrid and the...
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Electric Vehicles – from EVAlbum.com
A fun visual reminder that electric vehicles, clearly an element of our clean energy future, are already a mature technology, both for those designed as electric vehicles – and also for retrofits....
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MIT unveils 90 MPH solar car
Via the Autopia blog on Wired.com – “MIT Unveils 90 MPH Solar Race Car“, by Chuck Squatriglia: MIT’s latest solar race car might look like a funky Ikea table with a hump, but don’t laugh. It’ll do 90...
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Wired HowTo: turning a Prius into a Backup Generator
We think this is something that someone on every block ought to know how to do. If this were a distributed skill, it would entirely change, for the better, outcomes in grid failures. At Wired’s...
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Engadget/Brian Heater – $1K drop on Chevy Volt Price
Brian Heater at Engadget reports (here) a $1,000 (USD) drop in the list price of the electric plug-in Chevrolet Volt. It’s roughly a two to three percent drop. What’s more likely to get sales going,...
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Brookings, SAP, NRG, and the City of New York on our Energy Future
NRG Energy Tweet Will moving to the new energy future – deploying Solar, Wind and other sustainable alternatives create 2.7 Million New Jobs? At “How Cities and Companies Can Work Together to Operate...
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Electric Vehicle breaks 1000-miles, setting new distance record
Charis Michelsen, writing on GAS 2.0, reports that the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) has broken the distance record for electric vehicles: Electric vehicles records are dropping...
View ArticleFord selling Lincoln hybrids
In March of 2011, Keith Barry, writing on the Autopia blog at Wired.com, reported that a Massachusetts-based company was retrofitting Lincoln Towncars as hybrids, pitching the upgrade to fleet owners...
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Adventures in Driving – Hybrids
One day, back in 2009, while driving my ’99 Chevy Malibu home from classes in Marleboro College’s MBA in Managing for Sustainability, I set a target for my next car that it would get over 45 Miles Per...
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