“Bouncy and peppy” is the way Houston electric car dealer Rick Ehrlich describes the small, three-wheeled pickup that sits outside his Houston electric car business. “It’s a funny little truck,” adds Ehrlich as we take it for a spin around the parking lot. It’s a no-frills Zap pickup that weighs about 1800 pounds. It’s doesn’t Continue reading →
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Often thought of as too expensive or sophisticated for the average driver, plug-in electric vehicles will soon be available even to the occasional driver. Israel’s largest car rental company, Eldan, signed an agreement with Better Place electric vehicle company on December 5, making hundreds of Renault Fluence Z.E. electric cars available to the general public Continue reading →
It sounds far-fetched but your car could be making your toast for you in a few years. And boiling your kettle. And doing your washing. Nissan has just unveiled new technology that it thinks will revolutionise the way we power our homes, our cars and our lives. It has developed a system in which its Continue reading →
In a recent demonstration at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Nissan showed how the LEAF electric car could power an entire home by being connected to a power control system that’s hooked up to the home’s electrical system. via Nissan’s LEAF-to-Home System Could Power a House for Two Days | PluginCars.com.
Persistently high gas prices – which earlier this year flirted with the $4 per gallon mark – may hasten the arrival of an idea whose time has long been predicted: electric vehicles. Over the next year, most car manufacturers will be rolling out some type of plug-in car or truck, some that run solely on Continue reading →
It’s hard to find an energy wonk out there who doesn’t love the idea of electric cars. Most white papers on ending our oil dependency envision a large future role for plug-in vehicles and hybrids in the future. The concept has legions of devoted fans. Back in 2006, the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” Continue reading →
The Department of Energy has released the first third of its $25 billion advanced technology loan fund for automakers to “create thousands of green jobs while helping reduce the nation’s dangerous dependence on foreign oil.” The agency released about $8 billion, with Ford the largest beneficiary, receiving $5.9 billion. Nissan received $1.6 billion and Tesla Continue reading →
