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October 10, 2013
Nissan and City of Yokohama Launch "Choimobi Yokohama" EV Sharing Service With 30 New Mobility Concepts (w/video)
Choimobi Yokohama Launch As announced last month, Nissan, together with City of Yokohama, today held the launch ceremony of “Choimobi Yokohama," which, according to press release, is Japan's first one-way car sharing service with a large number of vehicles. This large number of vehicles means 30 thousand units of Nissan's New Mobility CONCEPT (which are rebadged Renaul...
Michigan Tech Gets Ford Focus Electric; Will Tear Into It For Education
Ford Focus Electric to be used by Michigan Tech for Educational Purposes Ford has kindly donated one of its Focus Electrics to Michigan Tech University (commonly referred to as Michigan Tech) for use in the electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering departments. Students there will have the opportunity to dissect the Focus Electric for educational purposes. Mich...
New Type of Molten Air Battery Promises Energy Capacity Way Beyond Even Lithium Air
Molten Air Generalization Graphic Battery technology is constantly evolving. Charge / Discharge Cycle of Molten Air Today's lithium-ion battery tech won't be around decades from now. It'll likely give way to either solid-state or lithium-air. But what's the future hold beyond that? Could it be molten-air? Researchers at George ...
Video: Nissan LEAF Nismo RC Versus Nissan 370Z Nismo
Those gents over at Auto Express sure are lucky. Not only did Nissan's Nismo division wheel out to them the Nissan 307Z Nismo, but the Nissan LEAF Nismo RC joined the action as well. You'll have to look past Auto Express' poor choice of a reviewer for this one though. And what's up with that outfit? Honestly, we've seen better test drive reviews conducted by unpaid teenagers, but n...
Better Place Still Without Buyer As Court Suspends Most Recent Sale
Better Place founder Shai Agassi Something wrong is going on with the sale of Better Place in Israel. According to the latest news from Globes, after a failed sale of Better Place's assets to Sunrise, now the transaction with Success Assets, owned by Tsahi Merkur, fell through, too: "Globes revealed that Merkur gave the liquidators a down payment of $508,906 for the acqui...
Smart Mobility Society Introduced By Toyota; Features Prius PHV and i-Road (video)
Sure the video is staged in your stereotypical future Japanese Utopia, but it not only features the plug-in Prius, but the Toyota i-Road as well (which has just been green-lit for limited production), so it's worth a look. Toyota says of their "vision": The Toyota I-Road Figures In Toyota's Smart Mobility Society "By linking people, cars, and communiti...
Tesla Model S Tire Blowout Causes Media Frenzy
A Tesla Model S Does A Little Supercharging Between Making Headlines "The automotive industry was in tatters yesterday with the news that a Tesla Model S had gotten a flat tire." So begins the faux-news article at Autoblopnik - which is a website in the same vein as news satire site The Onion, but focusing solely on automobiles. We thought given Tesla's wild market c...
All in a Day's Work: We Catch BMW's i3 REx Price Typo - Still a $3,850 Option
I'll preface this post by saying that it's definitely not your average InsideEVs article. There's no real news here. Rather, this is one of those rare posts where we decide to let you in on the behind the scenes action at InsideEVs. So, if you want to know how we roll, then read on. Yesterday evening, BMW issued a press release with this opening graph: "The born electric BMW i3 ...
Could This Patent Be What Tesla Will Use for the Model E?
The E stands for economical. The Tesla Model E (like the Model T Ford) is supposed to be an EV paving the way for mass adoption. The Model E will be an EV priced in the $30,000’s with a 200 mile range. In order to make this happen, Tesla needs a battery that is even lower cost than the one they have now. How can they do this? Thinking in Terms of Battery Cycles Tesla uses a high energy dens...
Plug In Vehicle Chargers: 4.3 Million Installed Units by 2022; Up From Only 442,000 Today
Commercial / Public Chargers Are Of Course Included in This 4.3 Million Figure According to Navigant Research, there's soon to be a big boom in the amount of installed chargers found worldwide. Residential Units Are Too...Though It's Looking Like Blink Won't Be Around Much Longer Today, Navigant predicts that there are roughly 442,000 plu...