Be Still My Heart: Volkswagen Sprinkles Classic Dune Buggy With EV Pixie Dust
Okay so it’s “just” an EV concept, but there’s more than meets the eye to Volkswagen’s new concept dune buggy featuring VW’s modular electric drive matrix.
Okay so it’s “just” an EV concept, but there’s more than meets the eye to Volkswagen’s new concept dune buggy featuring VW’s modular electric drive matrix.
The myth of the modern “city car” originates from the makers of Swatch watches. They thought there should be a market for stylish, functional, small cars for city dwellers — the same kind of people who bought their watches. This “SwatchMobile” became the Daimler Smart car. It was very popular, mainly among journalists who found it was something quirky to write about it. As far as sales goes, it turned out to be a product for a very small niche.
While EV adoption is fairly well documented in North America, Europe, and Asia, other geographies have been mostly or entirely absent from the media coverage — like Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. While electric vehicles in most countries in these areas are still something for the future, there are some interesting cases that deserve special mention. As such, I have split this topic in three chapters — one for Africa, the second for the Middle East, and the third for Latin America. Here, I am covering chapter 1, Africa.
Daimler’s little Smart ED, the electric version of the Smart car, is now the only version of the car in the US. Today, the ED goes electric-only in Europe as well.
Compared to the 10 million miles that the city’s vehicles travel every day, Scoot’s penetration into the San Francisco market is still relatively small. The 800 vehicles in its shared light electric vehicle (LEV) fleet have covered 2 million miles since 2012. Scoot CEO Michael Keating admitted in an email sent my way that, even combining their statistics with those of Zipcar, Bay Area Bikeshare, and Uber, you would probably not reach 5% of the total volume. But the market is growing fast.
Jobs, jobs, jobs — this is what people want. Or a “better economy” — so they can make more money and buy more things, maybe even a Tesla or a Twizy. So this is what political campaign after political campaign focuses on. The stupid thing about it, though, is that some of … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. I finally got behind the wheel of a Fiat 500e while I was in Los Angeles for the Tesla Model 3 unveiling. I had heard wonderful things about the car, but naturally wanted to test it out for myself and compare it to the Nissan … [continued]
San Francisco car sharing fans will get to scoot around the hills in this awesome little EV from Nissan.
A one-week cleantech tour (and semi-vacation) in the Netherlands put my “link drop” articles on hold for a bit, but I was saving stories along the way. After a couple of weeks, below is a massive list of non-CleanTechnica electric vehicle (especially Tesla), bicycle, and transit stories that I think … [continued]
There are a lot of clean transport stories below. I think they’re all cool. Have a look, and click through on any that interest you. Also, don’t forget to read all of our clean transport stories. Bicycling Old Bicycle Parts Are Powering a Green Economy & Improving Lives Bike Mechanics … [continued]