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July 24, 2013
Eric Bostrom Wins FIM eRoadRacing Season Opener at Laguna Seca
Bostrom Leads US Series After Record-Breaking Turpin Fails To Finish Shane Turpin on Brammo Empulse RR Last weekend, the FIM eRoadRacing series appeared in California, where the first US round was held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca alongside MotoGP. Sadly, a total of only eight racers attended - four on Brammo and four on Zero Motorcycles ...
24 July 2013
General
Analyst Says Tesla is Only Automaker That Has Figured Out How to Make Electric Vehicles Work
Shortly after Goldman Sachs issued a note with a somewhat negative future outlook for Tesla Motors, a Dougherty & Co. analyst shot back. TSLA Stock Shoots Back Up The Goldman Sachs note led to one of TSLA's worse days on the market, but Dougherty & Co. headed up a rebound. Andrea James, an analyst for Dougherty & Co., issued a positive note for TSLA, whic...
24 July 2013
General
EDTA: Just the Facts, Nothing But the Facts
Just the Facts Ma'am I swear that the evidence that I shall provide, shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.... The EDTA (Electric Drive Transportation Association) has put together some handy facts and linkages up on their website - we figure we would pass some of the highlights along: Plug-In Hybrid The Volt's First Generation Of...
24 July 2013
Video: Volkswagen XL1 Rolls Into London
With cameras flashing and passers-by taking notice, the stunning and amazingly efficient plug-in hybrid Volkswagen XL1 rolled into London. Or, as Volkswagen explains it: "The world's most fuel-efficient hybrid production vehicle, the XL1, was taken for a drive through London and unsurprisingly, it got quite a lot of attention." Of course the XL1 turns heads. It's radical design is q...
24 July 2013
Charging
Los Angeles Extends $750 Residential / Commercial Charger Rebate Program
Get Up to $750 Back News of charger installs flows into our inboxes several times daily. However, receiving word of rebates offered on installs is a far less common occurrence. The latter is the case here though as Los Angelese Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved a a measure that will expand upon its existing charger rebate program. In Los Angeles, rebates o...
24 July 2013
Video: In Italy, the Nissan LEAF Emits a Visible, Positive Charge
Can't you see that positive charge? Look Closely ad You'll See That Positive Charge It's there. 65,000-plus LEAF owners see it and witness the effects of it every single day. It surround them in what appears to be a barely visible bubble. It makes clothes nearly fly away. That's the positive charge of the Nissan LEAF and to experience it yourself...
24 July 2013
Sales
As BMW Prices The i3 In Canada At $44,950, We Look At Plug-In Pricing Premiums To The North
BMW Prices The i3 In Canada From $44,950 (pic via autoblog.nl) Shortly after BMW USA priced the all new i3 from $41,350, BMW Canada followed suit by announcing a starting price of $44,950 north of the border. They also added that the plug-in will travel electrically "beyond a range of 150 kilometres (93 miles)" and "will be available to customers in Canada in the first h...
24 July 2013
Charging
75% of All CHAdeMO Quick Chargers Come From Nissan, ABB or Fuji Electric
When we look a little closer at CHAdeMO quick-charge manufacturers, we start to see some interesting stuff, including this: nearly 3 out 4 CHAdeMO chargers comes from one of these three companies - Nissan, ABB or Fuji Electric. To date, the number of CHAdeMO points exceed 2,700, of which well over half are located in Japan. One of 400 Nissan QC for Europe ...
24 July 2013
General
To Meet Self-Imposed Targets, New Jersey Needs 15% of All Vehicles Sold in 2025 to Be Electric
We Know There Are a Few of These BMW ActiveEs in New Jersey Much like California, New Jersey is doing all it can to clean up its act, so to say. This ActiveE Lessee May or May Not be in Jersey at This Very Moment The state's near-ground ozone levels are out of control and that's priority number one right now. To fix that issue, New Jer...
24 July 2013
General
Seldom Used Public Charging Stations Rile Up the Locals
EV Parking/Charging Spots in Bristol Not Used Often Enough What to do with these seldom used public charging stations? First, we'd argue that public chargers stll aren't a necessity. Workplace chargers? Yes. Home chargers? Of course. But the public ones are more or less out there serving the purpose of showing the general public that there's a substantial infrastr...
24 July 2013