Electric Vehicles
GoElectricDrive.com goes LIVE!
I am happy to report that GoElectricDrive.com the National Plug-in Vehicle Initiative Project of the EDTA is now LIVE! This website will provide a national resource for those interested in learning more about plug-in electric vehicles, charging, PEV rates, incentives, PEVs coming to market, EVSE equipment and their specifications, PEV news and EVSE locations and[…]
Test Driving the Prius Plug-In Hybrid
I’ve been test driving a Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) slated for release in early 2012…I’ve been mostly driving around town (75% local roads, 25% highway) using EV mode for~50% of the driving and hybrid mode for the other half. I have been averaging 97 miles per gallon. Note: I received complimentary use of[…]
General Electric to Purchase Massive Flotilla of Electric Cars
The 25,000 EVs will constitute most of GE’s fleet. NEWS | TRANSPORTATION MICHAEL KANELLOS: NOVEMBER 11, 2010 The electric car industry has clamored for a case study to showcase they economics of electric cars. General Electric is giving them one. The conglomerate said it would purchase 25,000 electric cars for its fleet. GE’s global car fleet right[…]
GE to purchase 25,000 PEVs
Check out this article from Automotive News on a major purchase of PEVs: GE to buy 25,000 electric vehicles from GM, rivals by 2015 (from Automotive News – 11/11/10) November 11, 2010 – 9:49 am ET DETROIT (Bloomberg) — General Electric Co. will buy 25,000 electric vehicles, almost half of them from General Motors Co.,[…]
EV Battery Standards
Good news from the SAE publication, Automotive Engineering International, September 7, 2010, issue, AEI-Online.org, page 10, “SAE standards bring order to EV battery world.” 140 volunteers from 80 countries has joined the Battery Standards Committee. Each of 10 taskforces is working to develop a new standard. Here are the ones identified: J2929 – Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Propulsion Battery[…]
Electric Taxi Fleet
Source: Vancouver Sun SHENZHEN, China — In a bid to get a fully electric car on the road with appeal beyond the “green market,” China’s BYD, Build Your Dreams, has taken one big step ahead of most of its competitors. In May, the small automotive company, which U.S. financial wizard Warren Buffett put on the[…]
2010 San Diego Clean Cities Progress Report
The 2010 San Diego Clean Fuels Coalition Survey is currently underway, we are gathering data regarding many organization’s alternative fuel/advanced technology fleets in order to complete our 2010 annual report for the Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Cities Program. The DOE uses this data to report to Congress, as required by the Energy Policy Act,[…]
Future of the Electric Car in Southern California – UCSD Event for San Diego Community – May 27
5-27-10 EPBF Future of the Electric Car (Business and Community) Environmental Policy and Business Forum Future of the Electric Car in Southern California Thursday, May 27, 2010 Please join us for our spring Environmental Policy and Business Forum (EPBF) at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) as we discuss policy and practical[…]