BMW’s electric arm, BMW i, has teamed up with green electricity provider Good Energy in order to offer British BMW i customers 100% green electricity. In other words, BMW i3 and BMW i8 owners who get the Good Energy package can quickly respond to anyone who tries to pull out some … [continued]
For two months in a row, the top-selling car in Norway has been an electric car. (Yes, the #1 best-selling car of any kind was an electric car in both September and October.) Interestingly, it wasn’t the same car. In September, it was the Tesla Model S that led Norwegian auto sales. In … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. So, I got the opportunity to test drive the BMW i3 one week ago in Barcelona. The following is my full BMW i3 review. I included an initial review of the BMW i3 alongside reviews of the Volkswagen e-Up! and Nissan Leaf a few days ago, … [continued]
If you read my initial, short review of the BMW i3, you know that I love this vehicle. Living in the city center of a beautiful, old European city, I have nearly no need for an automobile of any sort. However, driving the i3 on Saturday did put some genuine … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. UPDATE: Full BMW i3 review here. I was able to test drive about 8 electric vehicles in Barcelona over the past week. I will have longer reviews of many of them in the coming days or weeks… as I have time to write them up, … [continued]
Abu Dhabi’s electricity regulator is aiming to obtain 7% of the city’s electricity from renewable power sources, and it hopes to implement a rooftop solar scheme to help attain that goal. This will be proposed to the Executive Council in early 2014. The solar rooftop scheme is to generate 500 … [continued]
I’m on a plane to Barcelona as I write this, headed to my favorite large city for EVS27, the 27th edition of a world-leading electric vehicle symposium, as well as a little bit of free time (I hope). The International Energy Agency (IEA) ranks Barcelona at the 7th-best electric vehicle (EV) … [continued]
Electric vehicle manufacturers have been trying to strike the right balance between range, performance, and price. Electric vehicles can achieve longer range than they do now with the use of larger batteries, or with the use of lithium-polymer batteries which have a higher energy-to-weight ratio. However, these options increase vehicle … [continued]
Cycling not only gives you exercise, but also reduces automobile smog, greenhouse gas pollution, and (thus) premature death. However, don’t you wish that when you’re feeling ill or tired you could just sit there while your bicycle carries you home? Well, the FlyKly Smart Wheel is a replacement bicycle wheel … [continued]
New empirical research out of Spain shows that wind power is very effective at cutting CO2 emissions, even at quite high penetration levels. This is, of course, what many of us would expect, but some people have had the odd idea (or have at least claimed) that wind power plants … [continued]
