The Tesla Model S has proven a wildly-popular car with EV enthusiasts and celebrities alike. So who are these A listers anyhow? We did some Internet sleuthing and came up with a fairly comprehensive list of Model S owners and fans. Ben Affleck; Actor, Director and Screenwriter, known for such … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. Transportation app Uber is now available in 38 countries, has a market value of over $18 billion, and thanks to a recent wave of European protests, signups for the car service are up 850%. It seems a plan to disrupt commuter cab drivers in London, Paris, Berlin, … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. A Dutch Toyota dealer has set up an impressive solar array to power his store, and plans to use Toyota Prius hybrid batteries to house the surplus energy. While the plans use the Prius batteries are still tentative, the Louwman Hague Toyota store does have approximately 1,000 solar … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. Smith Electric Vehicles of Kansas City has suspended production of its electric trucks and vans. While executives remain optimistic about Smith’s chances, even they had to acknowledge that building a handful of electric vehicles at an extremely high just isn’t a sustainable business model. Smith Electric Vehicles … [continued]
Originally published on Gas. How would you run a whole country without oil? Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi wanted to find out, and the result was a company called A Better Place. Through a network for charging stations and robotic battery swapping stations, Agassi had grand ambitions to banish oil from … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. If you didn’t think dictating national policy was enough fun for Congress, check out our nation’s representatives taking Toyota’s i-Road concept for a tour of Capitol Hill. The Toyota i-Road is a three-wheeled electric vehicle designed for city driving based on a concept that was seen at … [continued]
Originally published on sister site Gas 2. It’s tax season again, and that means the annual plea from the Obama Administration for eliminating $4 billion in annual federal tax incentives for the oil and natural gas industry. This year there was an additional request however, earmarking that money for advanced … [continued]
Originally published on Gas 2. Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail line network of bullet trains began operation in 1964, and it is the oldest and safest high-speed rail line in the world. So how’d they do it? The Shinkansen high-speed rail line network has a top speed range of 149-200 mph, and consists … [continued]
This article first appeared on Gas2. Brigham Young University (BYU) is known for a number of things – and one of them is unconventional vehicles. The engineering wing of BYU has added to its fleet a new vehicle that gets 1,300 miles per gallon. The BYU 1,300 miles per gallon vehicle premiered … [continued]
This article first appeared on Gas2. California’s high-speed rail project has gotten the green light to begin even with many political obstacles still on the table. The overseeing board of the California high-speed rail project has said that the first 65-mile stretch of rail between Fresno and Merced will be exempt from … [continued]
