Mitsubishi Motor Corporation will introduce three hybrid vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show. Two of them are plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and another is a regular hybrid. Because the cost of non-plug-in hybrids has decreased so much, it is often only a couple of thousand dollars more to buy a hybrid … [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]
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]
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]
Eight US states have signed an agreement to put 3.3 million zero-emission electric vehicles on the road by 2020.
Originally published on EV Obsession. Even though it hasn’t even been released yet, the BMW i3 already appears to be quite the success — with 8,000 preorders already placed, most of the 10,000 vehicles that were intended to be produced in the car’s first year are already spoken for. Because … [continued]
Years ago, I saw that Volvo, a Swedish car manufacturer, was working on the concept of integrating energy storage into the body panels of electric vehicles. I don’t know if this is the same project, but it may be. Volvo develops its technologies rather discreetly, but it has now gotten … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Earlier this year, Shell released its most recent future energy scenario report, New Lens Scenarios (check out the PDF here). One of the big highlights, in my eyes, was that one of the scenarios (Oceans) projected that solar energy would become the largest source of energy by … [continued]
Legislature developments (or rather paralysis) this month are retching. So let’s talk positive in this post. The way American citizens think about energy is in historical transition. We are finally “getting it.” Sane, renewable, commonsense measures to energy are not beyond our grasp anymore. The “maybe in 5 years” complacency … [continued]
