Tesla Motors has achieved yet another major victory in its fight to sell directly to customers — the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has given Tesla the go-ahead to apply for a dealership license in Virginia, after holding talks with the DMV and the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association. Previous … [continued]
Sales of the Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid have finally commenced in Europe. Production of the vehicles started in late August at Mitsubishi Motor Corporation’s (MMC) Okazaki plant in Nagoya, Japan. The first units were available in The Netherlands, and Mitsubishi plans to sequentially launch this product throughout Europe to help cope … [continued]
Tesla and Panasonic today announced that they have come to an agreement regarding lithium-ion battery cells that will cover the coming 4 years. It’s an exciting announcement, but pretty straightforward, so here’s the actual Tesla news release: OSAKA, Japan / PALO ALTO, Calif. — Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors today announced that … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. I can’t recall ever seeing Tesla CEO, Chairman, and Product Architect Elon Musk wearing a suit. That is, before watching the video below. One of the biggest “hits” to Tesla this year has been the fire that erupted in a Tesla Model S about a … [continued]
A123 Venture Technologies has teamed up with SolidEnergy to develop lithium-ion batteries with four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries. The technology is called a Solid Polymer Ionic Liquid (SPIL) electrolyte. A123’s standard 18650 batteries only achieve 95 Wh/kg, which is still much better than lead-acid and NiMH … [continued]
Originally published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has announced that a project at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is among 22 projects that will receive funding to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. I’m a big fan of ranking… just like the rest of you. However, I generally hate that most rankings are presented in absolute terms rather than relative terms. For example, there are many rankings of the “best electric car cities” based on the total number … [continued]
As some of you may remember, I posted a poll last month asking what you all thought was the most disruptive cleantech model. (Note: I used model very loosely here, and you could basically just change that out for “thing” or “solution” if you wanted to.) Interestingly, my answer (which … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave.com. The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Clean Vehicles program recently released an updated version of its rather comprehensive “backgrounder” on electric vehicles — “how much the technology is growing in the country, the opportunities it presents for consumers and automakers, and the challenges facing its adoption,” to … [continued]
Following up on two articles about my tour of Activ Solar’s Perovo Solar Power Station in Crimea, Ukraine, below is a lengthy interview with the COO of Activ Solar* that I found particularly interesting and fun to conduct. Activ Solar is currently the 3rd-largest utility-scale solar developer in the world … [continued]
