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Electric Car Industry Update & New Batteries
Electric vehicles (EVs) are our best bet for the post oil world. That is if the battery problem can be overcome. And recent developments suggest that that may be happening. One of the advantages of EVs...
View ArticleIs this the coming energy breakthrough that will "startle" most...
In Dumbya's SOTU he mentioned a energy breakthrough that would startle most americans. I stumbled across this article about a company that could be about to revolutionize batteries:...
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Charging Electric Cars is as Fast as Filling Up with Gasoline
Courtesy of Batteries Digest Web Site Some very important hurdles in battery technological for electric vehicles have been overcome this year. Technological hurdles even greater than those overcome in...
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Porsche Produces Electric Car
Ferdinand Porsche's First Vehicle was an Electric Car When thinking of sports cars today, a person who knows something about cars would inevitably think of a Porsche. The compact beauty, the sleek...
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The Business of Manufacturing a Pollution Free Car
Bob Beaumont's Seabring-Vanguard CitiCar There have been many attempts at making EVs available to the public over the years. The best known attempt in recent years was made by Bob Beaumont in the...
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On Manufacturing a Pollution Free Vehicle Part II
The ideal would be to purpose build an EV from scratch (Photo from NCE Canada) When doing any kind of project you have to begin with a clear end in mind. This is true with starting a business as well....
View ArticleDisposable Economy: Batteries
In a mobile society, batteries seem to be a gift from the gods. We have power wherever we go in order to play video games on our phones, or to take pictures with our gameboys. We listen to news on...
View ArticleThe end of the combustion engine
I have written on this company before and thought everyone might want to read some more about this company EESTOR. They are featured on CNN.com today as one of the 11 technologies that will change the...
View ArticleCell Phone Solar: What I Learned in Jamaica
riving up to Junction on twenty miles of bad road, we stopped for directions at a gas station and picked up an older woman waiting for a ride who guided us the rest of the way. A mile or two later, we...
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Time Marches On... with batteries
About 6 years ago I picked up a pack of AA NIMH batteries. The pack contained two AA Nickel-Metal Hydride (NIMH) batteries rated at 1200 mAh. Think of mAh as the gasoline. The bigger the number in...
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NIMH Today
In 1980 Stanford Ovshinsky patented a battery that was supposed to revolutionize the world. A battery that he knew could take almost unlimited charges and discharges, a battery that held far more...
View ArticleWhen I First Caught the EV Bug
When people ask me when did I start becoming interested in electric vehicles I honestly tell them I can't remember. Electric vehicles weren't an "aha!" moment in my life where I suddenly realized that...
View ArticleOn Paper, It Could Be The Solution For Electric Vehicles
The constant counter-argument to the proliferation of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles has been the size and weight of the battery packs, the inadequate energy density of the available batteries,...
View ArticleBrian Williams: Today's Worst Person in the World?
The one thing I dislike about Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment is that he never takes on NBC News or MSNBC personalities. From Tucker Carlson to Chris Matthews, there's a lot of...
View ArticleGoing EV #4: The battery revolution will not be televised
The makers of the batteries for today's modern EVs have much to be proud of. A little over a decade ago, the best EVs on the market ran on lead-acid batteries (a technology so primitive that Thomas...
View ArticleThey've Always Lied to Me
The first lie that I remember was "batteries not included". What made this lie pernicious is that it was not technically a lie. Certainly, my mother was prepared for it, with batteries at hand. But it...
View ArticleMcCain's Assault on Batteries
Sen. John McCain's recent proposal to establish a $300 Million prize competition to develop a new battery package for electric vehicles is actually a lot worse than it looks. This light bit of...
View ArticleGoing EV #7: Oahu: A glimpse of green times to come
Call me an optimist. Coal is king, tar sands oil is booming, the arctic is melting, tropical cyclones keep setting new records, and my own city is still flooded. Yet, in these times, a revolution in...
View ArticleLithium-Titanate Batteries - the future of EVs?
Recently, AltairNano demonstrated their Lithium-Titanate batteries in a real world demo for Indianapolis Light and Power. They had two 1MW/250kWh units, and the batteries and equipment performed very...
View ArticleGoing EV #8: 33 new EVs, from Aptera to Wrightspeed
One of the most common criticism of electric vehicles, even among their proponents, is "there's so little out there!". And for the most part, this criticism is valid. While there are dozens of types...
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