Electricvehicles reduce noise and local air pollution, such as nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ground-level ozone, but do they simply relocate the carbon tire-tracks to fossil-fired power stations or are there benefits on the global scale? Fundamentally, an electric engine can achieve 85 to 90% energy conversion efficiency, which contrasts starkly with the internal...
FT Car industry welcomes electric tax breaks By John Reed, Motor Industry Correspondent Published: December 9 2009 15:22 Last updated: December 9 2009 15:22 Britain’s car industry welcomed the UK government’s decision to extend the tax breaks for electricvehicles, already promised for private consumers, to commercial and fleet buyers. Alistair Darling said in his...
Solar power is rarely looked at as a viable source of energy for electric cars. Sure, the Prius uses rooftop solar panels to power its air-conditioning system, and solar-powered EV charging stations make sense, but solar powered vehicles have long been cast aside as pricey novelties . That might all change, however, with Sanyo's Solar ElectricVehicle. The truck, set to...
Sanyo let out word that they will parade their Solar ElectricVehicle (EV) at the upcoming Eco Products 2009 worldly Exhibition in Tokyo, where that solar EV will be powered not by Eneloops, but Sanyo's very own Solar Panels and Lithium Ion batteries. The truck (sorry, no fancy sports car ...
The Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that electric cars will be exempt from company car tax for five years while electric vans have a 100 per cent write-down allowance for the first year. The measures announced as part of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report this afternoon are designed to encourage the uptake of electricvehicles within company [...]
Mitsubishi has teamed up with Japan Delivery System Corp. to develop an electric-vehicle charging system for the shared parking lots of apartment complexes. JDS will sell the i-CHARGER system ( pictured ) in Japan beginning this month. The system is targeted at apartment dwellers who own electricvehicles. It uses the authentication capability of existing delivery-box systems...
Sanyo let out word that they will parade their Solar ElectricVehicle (EV) at the upcoming Eco Products 2009 International Exhibition in Tokyo, where this solar EV will be powered not by Eneloops, but Sanyo's very own Solar Panels and Lithium Ion batteries. The truck (sorry, no fancy sports car here) is able to run up to a purported 130km after 16 hours of direct solar charging, while...
Britain's car industry welcomed the UK government's decision to extend the tax breaks for electricvehicles, already promised for private consumers, to commercial and fleet buyers
THINK, the Scandinavian electricvehicle (EV) maker, and its largest fleet customer, Move About, the Norwegian car-share fleet operator, are providing 15 THINK City courtesy vehicles to the COP 15 Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009.
While many are suffering burnout from the overwhelming amount of EV discussion as of late, the conference hosted by Portland State University and Portland General Electric last month was different. Called “ EV Road Map: Preparing Oregon for the Introduction of ElectricVehicles ,” the event was one of the first to set the stage for real rollout and testing of citywide...
Gov. Jennifer Granholm and local politicians on Monday celebrated GM's $336M investment and the $136M in tax abatements that made the Chevrolet Volt electric car project possible.