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Using a kind-of golf cart as a second car
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Forty percent of all our daily trips, according to the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, are within just 2 miles of our home and 50% of all commutes are 5 miles or less. Despite the short distances, most of these trips- 87%- are made by personal vehicle.Since public transport and ...
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1 month, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 1 comments
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Johnson Controls
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Johnson Controls, Inc. is a company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was founded in 1885 by professor Warren S. Johnson, inventor of the first electric room thermostat.
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2 months, 1 week ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
An EV maker on the end of gas and the new electric era
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Neal Saiki is an aeronautical engineer who has helped create
transportation solutions for NASA (including a human-powered
helicopter), so he knows what he's talking about when he insists that soon
we'll all be changing what we drive. "The era of gas cars which lasted about 100 years is ...
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10 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Zero Motorcycles: high performance electric bikes
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Neal Saiki makes cool bikes. He's designed bicycles for Haro, Santa Cruz and Mountain Cycles, so it would make sense that when he began to design his own motorcycle, he would create something with zero emissions. Seven prototypes later, he'd created the Model Zero S, the first bike ...
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10 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Tesla: in the workshop of the car co. of the future?
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"I think that by 2030 the majority of the vehicles on the road will be electric vehicle and it may be the vast majority". Tesla's vice president of business development Diarmuid O'Connell has good reason to be optimistic. His company has turned a profit after 6 years in ...
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11 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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An EV hotrod: electrify your ride
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Even without the $100,000 for a Tesla Roadster or the $10,000 for a Kurrent, it is possible to drive an electric. Whether you buy a DIY conversion kit or let a specialized garage do it for your, for $5,000 and up, you can electrify your current car ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Zap Zebra: a 3-wheeled electric truck
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It is possible to haul things without an SUV or a gas-guzzling truck. With just three wheels, the Zap Zebra truck may rely on electricity for fuel, but it can hold 4 passengers and a full load of cargo. In this video, Alex Sevilla of ThunderStruck Motors showed faircompanies tech ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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The Lepton: an electric Vespa... kind of
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It's Italian-made and has the feel of a Vespa, but the Lepton electric scooter is a plug-in. In this video, faircompanies tech advisor Erik Frye took one for a test drive and talked to ThunderStruck Motors' Alex Sevilla about lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries and plugging in when you're ...
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1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Who revived the electric car?
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Totally electric cars are now for sale. Unlike hybrids, EV's use only electricity and can be charged at night, at a reduced price (80% of the battery in 2.5 hours). If electricity comes from clean sources, pollution is 0. We talk about the most interesting models.The big ...
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2 years, 11 months ago by: nicolas.boullosa staff 1 comments
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Industrial hydrogen vehicles: do they have a chance?
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Journalist Michael Kanellos reports in his News.com blog that vehicles in warehouses are beginning to use fuel cell batteries.According to Kanellos, six companies, among them the largest chain of supermarkets in the world, Wal-Mart, and the tire company Bridgestone, are conducting trials with fork lifts that use hydrogen ...
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3 years, 7 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
