Originally published on EV Obsession. BMW and Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) have partnered to launch an 18-month pilot of the BMW i ChargeForward Program in San Francisco, according to recent reports. The pilot program will see roughly 100 BMW i3 drivers — selected from around 400 applicants — participate … [continued]
Brian Kent is a Nissan LEAF owner who is about to embark on a negative-carbon US road trip to all 48 contiguous states. (You can help fund the cause via that IndieGogo link.) He has written an excellent 4-part series for CleanTechnica and our sister sites EV Obsession and Gas2 on “going … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Well, the Netherlands is certainly turning out to be one of the most interesting electric vehicle markets in the world. It is #2 in terms of electric cars’ percentage of total new car sales, but the cars leading the pack keep changing. The Dutch plug-in hybrid … [continued]
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Originally published on Gas2. I’m not familiar with “Regular Car Reviews,” but one minute into the Tesla Model S P85 review video below, I became a fan. Clever, fun, and funny. And it turns out the reviews are comprehensive enough that they are useful, too. To kick things off, this … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. I saw an interesting note on the Tesla Motors Club forum a few weeks ago about some “white hat hackers” who were going to hack a Tesla Model S at a big hacker event and thus reveal some vulnerabilities that Tesla should address. It was … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Tesla Motors released its latest quarterly shareholder letter and hosted its quarterly financials call late last night (European time, since that’s where I live). As always, there were many interesting tidbits that could by themselves be individual articles. However, in the interest of not irritating the … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. One of the leading oil suppliers of the world, Norway, is already quite well known for its relatively fast embrace of electric cars, having the highest per capita use and sale of electric cars anywhere in the world. That embrace is set to continue at pace, though, … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Well, that was a crappy month… if you’re an electric car fan. Almost across the board, US electric car sales were down in July 2015 compared to July 2014. However, three models were up — the Tesla Model S ($75,000), the Mercedes B-Class Electric ($41,450), … [continued]
If you ever take a logical look at electricity production or the burning of fossil fuels to propel vehicles forward, you see that most of the cost is not paid when purchase that electricity or fuel. Most of the cost comes from the tremendous health problems the resulting air pollution (and … [continued]
