Adopt An Electric Vehicle Charger To Speed Up EV Adoption
A few years back, I met Kitty Adams and got introduced to her incredible idea, Adopt A Charger. Ever since, the business model has matured and is now reaching across the US and now Europe.
A few years back, I met Kitty Adams and got introduced to her incredible idea, Adopt A Charger. Ever since, the business model has matured and is now reaching across the US and now Europe.
We live in a world reliant on cell phone apps and beyond, losing a cell phone now is like losing a part of your mind (a helpful functioning part and the overly plugged in part). Data and data processing become king. All those small apps link to something — perhaps to mysterious and intricate quantum computers.
If you grew up in the 1980s, you might have fond memories of the Ferrari 308 that Tom Selleck drove in the Magnum P.I. series. And if you also grew up with that generation, you’ve probably also lusted after one. Would you scream sacrilege if one were converted to electricity? We didn’t and we loved the long ride we had in the ElectricGT 308.
Check out an important next step in using autonomous driving to improve vehicle safety. This swift test run for Groupe Renault’s autonomous control system shows Renault’s autonomous control adeptly handling challenging driving scenarios. Renault reports that, as an industry first, its system can perform road obstacle avoidance as well as professional test drivers. Renault continues that the drivers served as the inspiration and the benchmark for this achievement at Renault Open Innovation Lab – Silicon Valley.
Didi Chuxing (China’s Uber-like ride-hailing service) has been in the news recently. It announced 1) plans to create its own electric car charging network, 2) a partnership with NEVS for one million electric self-driving cars, 3) that it’s a partner in Changan Automobile Group’s $15 billion Shangri La electric vehicle transition plan, and 4) that it has the world’s largest EV ridesharing fleet.
In this presentation, John Farrell details 6 reasons and 6 benefits of acting now to accelerate electric vehicle adoption, and two easy ways we can.
Episode #39 of Cleantech Talk is here! A giant passive house project in Vancouver, a trackless train, and an unsatisfactory Tesla conference call stole the show in our opinion, so that’s what we discussed.
The heavy-haul and long-distance electric truck industry has been relatively quiet, working away with today’s current battery technology but primarily behind the scenes. But things kicked off much more in public when Tesla started talking about its electric truck and stories started to pop up.
Fuso, now part of Daimler, has been making the news with an electric vehicle (EV) truck ready to lift the heavy load, the E-Fuso Vision One, right on the heels of its e-Canter, which you can read about here from fellow writer Steve Hanley.
Renault ZOE wins again. Environmental accolades come naturally to Europe’s well-loved Renault ZOE. The ZOE is the top-selling 100% electric car in Europe, so is readily suited to win once again the Pure Electric and Hybrid Cars Green Apple Champion, hosted by the Green Organisation for the third time.
Mitsubishi has had a few plans in the drawers and the new Renault-Nissan Alliance might just finally help it launch it into high gear. Welcome to the Mitsubishi future, the e-Evolution Concept.