PALO ALTO, Calif.-- Tesla Motors today announced significant expansion of the Tesla Supercharger network. Supercharging enables Tesla Model S drivers to travel long distances, for free, indefinitely. The expansion of the network builds upon the success of the Tesla Supercharger networ...
TORRANCE, Calif., May 30, 2013 – Honda today announced an attractive new price package for the highly efficient and fun-to-drive all-electric Fit EV including the new competitive lease price of $259 a month beginning June 1. Reduced from $389 a month, the new three-year lease term str...
TESLA DRAMATICALLY EXPANDS SUPERCHARGER NETWORK, Delivering CONVENIENT, free LONG DISTANCE DRIVING THROUGHOUT U.S. and Canada THURSDAY, mAY 30, 2013 – Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) today announced significant expansion of the Tesla Supercharger network. Supercharging enables Tesla Model...
I just bought a 2013 Honda Civic (nonhybrid) to replace my aging 2001 Honda Insight. The new civic is getting 30 mpg which is about half what my Insight gets but there wasn't an affordable electric car that I wanted to buy at the moment. My plan is to drive the Civic for four years an...
Musk wouldn't exactly where in California those two grid-storage prototypes are, but he confirmed they're in California, and that the grid storage is being planned together with utilities, who have received the plan well—as that excess energy could be fed back into the grid when it's ...
A three-year research project regarding use of electric cars in the North East of England concluded that electric cars are better for the environment and human health. EVs are also a viable option for most drivers, according to the study. Funded by the U.K.’s Technology Strategy Board...
At TerraPass, as the summer travel season gets underway, we notice an uptick in interest around the carbon footprint of travel. We thought we would take a moment to revisit this blog post about how 6lbs of gasoline turns into 19lbs of CO2 The curious (or suspicious-minded) among you h...
Toyota Introduces 2013 Prius Plug-in MPG Challenge Toyota Urges Tri-State Organizations to Plug-in for Charity with Environmentally-Focused Challenge WEST CALDWELL, N.J., May 29, 2013 – Toyota announced today the launch of the first Prius MPG Challenge rewarding environmentally-consci...
The 'Minddrive' project has been running for a number of years now and each year, a group of students from five school areas in Kansas take part in a programme which teaches them about electric vehicle design and development and also modern communications. Previous projects have seen ...
If you think it's hard to find a plug for your electric vehicle, be glad you don't need to look for a Twitter friend every time you want to drive. But that's the restriction that a group of at-risk high school students built into their electric Kharmann Ghia as they attempt to drive f...
TORRANCE, Calif., May 30, 2013 – Honda today announced an attractive new price package for the highly efficient and fun-to-drive all-electric Fit EV including the new competitive lease price of $259 a month beginning June 1. Reduced from $389 a month, the new three-year lease term str...
Electric car batteries could be greener, says EPA study Batteries used for electric cars could become greener and this should be a priority to help improve the environmental argument for EVs, according to a new study. While modern lithium ion batteries show overall promise for reducin...
According to CEO Elon Musk, who announced the expanded network and other improvements in a media conference call, Tesla owners will be able to choose from hundreds of stations and thousands of charging ports by 2015, and to drive all the way from Los Angeles to New York, using only th...
TESLA DRAMATICALLY EXPANDS SUPERCHARGER NETWORK, Delivering CONVENIENT, free LONG DISTANCE DRIVING THROUGHOUT U.S. and Canada THURSDAY, mAY 30, 2013 – Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) today announced significant expansion of the Tesla Supercharger network. Supercharging enables Tesla Model...
On the one hand, this seems like a great opportunity for Toyota to do a little good while raising awareness of the Prius Plug-In -- especially among the Prius brand's base of socially aware consumers. And apart from fuel costs, the Challenge gives participating nonprofits free use of ...
Better Place were not opportunists, Shai Agassi was in line to become CEO of SAP when he left to start Better Place. Everyone seems to jump on bandwagon of bashing battery swapping as core to BP. What BP was trying to do was run a whole country without oil. They always assumed that 99...
While Nissan dove head first, sink-or-swim, into the EV waters with its Leaf in late 2010, Honda has demonstrated it prefers to dip its toes in first, then perhaps its calves, and while the water may still be chilly, it is getting in deeper with its Fit EV. First launched in Californi...
Carsharing company car2go will be launching in Denver on June 8. Denver will be the tenth North American city added to car2go’s roster. car2go will introduce a network of 300 car2go edition smart fortwo vehicles that will be available for shared use in the metropolitan Denver area, 24...
With two very successful tests in the books and a strong start to the 2013 season under our belt, it was time for Team Icon Brammo to take on something new; time to forge a new frontier so to speak. But where this frontier is new for us, it’s actually considered more old school to mos...
[i}BMW, on the other hand, has been squawking about the challenge of meeting such standards, saying earlier this month that it was \"impossible\" to do so without government financial assistance towards advanced-powertrain technology[/i] IOW Privatising profits and socialising costs C...
Tesla Supercharger Network rollout for Fall 2013 On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company's Supercharger network will quickly expand to reach nationwide coverage across North America within one year. Within the next few months, the stations will have faster charging...
