Automotive
Home Charging for Electric Vehicle: Costs Will Vary
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Image by Getty Images via Daylife
By the end of the year, at least five plug-in cars, including the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt, are expected to be on the market. And as electric vehicles roll out, their owners will be wiring their homes to accommodate what is called Level 2 charging. The [...]
Companies join forces to standardize charging infrastructure
Saturday, March 20th, 2010One of the criticisms often levied at the drive to get electrically-powered vehicles from the fringe into the mainstream is the current lack of a network of charging stations.
Four car manufacturing giants have teamed up with a utility service provider to tackle this problem head on. The newly formed CHAdeMO Association [...]
Eye concept – a glimpse of Tesla’s future?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The all-electric Tesla Roadster is indeed a fine-looking, high-performance automobile,
but its projected $US109,000 price tag will likely put it out of reach of the much sought-after Generation Y demographic. Tesla’s less-pricey Model S four-door sedan is more of a refined, subtly-classy car – again, not something the fun-loving twenty-somethings will be flocking [...]
Zep’lin flying boat ponders the future of electric vehicles
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010A boat that flies.
Now there’s a vehicle Phileas Fogg could really have used. Zep’lin is a blue-sky concept developed by industrial designer Damien Grossemy during a five month internship at Renault which imagines the use of solar panel sails and electric propulsion to liberate the yacht-like vehicle from terra firma.
Setting out [...]
Antro SOLO human-electric-hybrid aims for double the fun
Monday, March 8th, 2010Hungarian designers Antro are aiming to introduce a new fuel efficient vehicle to the consumer market by 2012
which (like the recently covered HumanCar) will rely on the muscle-power of driver and passengers as well as a hybrid fuel/electric engine. The designers are also looking to have the three-seater SOLO link up to [...]
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