Also published on EV Obsession, Planetsave, and CleanTechnica. Chris DeMorro and I jumped into our third Cleantech Talk podcast just a couple of hours ago. I think we really hit our stride with this one. It was a lot of fun, and felt like a really long tennis or ping … [continued]
Also published on EV Obsession, Solar Love, & GAS2. Chris DeMorro and I recorded our second “Cleantech Talk” podcast earlier today. It is embedded below for your listening pleasure. I’ve begun the process of getting the podcast included on iTunes, but it’s a bit complicated, so I didn’t want to wait … [continued]
Enjoy the electric vehicle stories below from around the interwebs, as well as our own electric vehicle stories from the past week. Tesla Tesla Sales — Updates & Estimates “Secret Weapon” To Increase Tesla Demand & Beat Dealers — Ideas Tesla: More Pure-Electric Car Revenue Than All Other Companies Tesla … [continued]
Originally published on Planetsave. While modern electric vehicles are just coming around, just seeing decent sales, many probably don’t realize that electric vehicles were extremely popular back at the beginning of the 1900s. The first car dealer in the US only sold electric cars. That was 1896. That was not … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. The Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive, a new mass market electric vehicle from the well known German brand, reportedly cuts CO2 emissions as much as 64% when compared to the Mercedes-Benz B 180 gasoline car. The 64% cut is based on the assumption that 100% of the … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. If I asked you, “What’s the largest electric car market in the world?,” what would you say? I track electric car sales in the US, Europe, China, and Japan about as much as I can. I write up monthly reports on some of these, and have … [continued]
Roughly one plug-in car (100% electric or plug-in hybrid) is currently being sold for every two conventional hybrids sold in the state of California, according to recent numbers. These numbers are coming to us via a recent article published by Yahoo! Autos that stated that almost 10% of California’s new car … [continued]
In case you missed it, other than our many EV stories, here’s some more good EV news and commentary from around the interwebs: Tesla 1. Tesla P85D Sighting 2. Tesla P85D Styling Not Distinctive Enough? 3. Are Tesla’s Autonomous Car Claims All Hype? 4. Tesla Factory Upgrade Puts X-Men Names On Robots 5. Life With … [continued]
Anyone who drives an EV in Canada has heard of Sun Country Highway. Its EV chargers are pretty much ubiquitous in many areas of the country. Just how well developed is the network? Well, Sun Country Highway just wrapped up its E-Mazing Race contest, in which electric cars traversed the country on the … [continued]
Below is an interesting write-up on the Cadillac ELR from a current owner, reposted from the GM-Volt.com Forum. The Cadillac ELR gets a lot of criticism, but many of its owners really love the thing. Here are some comments from forum user “Kevin” that may be worth your while to read … [continued]
