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Using a kind-of golf cart as a second car

Using a kind-of golf cart as a second car

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 ... read more

1 month, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  1 comments

Johnson Controls

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. read more

2 months, 1 week ago by: faircompanies  faircompanies  comments

An EV maker on the end of gas ‪and the new electric era‬

An EV maker on the end of gas ‪and the new electric era‬

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 ... read more

10 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Zero Motorcycles: high performance electric bikes

Zero Motorcycles: high performance electric bikes

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 ... read more

10 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Tesla: in the workshop of the car co. of the future?

Tesla: in the workshop of the car co. of the future?

"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 ... read more

11 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

An EV hotrod: electrify your ride

An EV hotrod: electrify your ride

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 ... read more

1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Zap Zebra: a 3-wheeled electric truck

Zap Zebra: a 3-wheeled electric truck

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 ... read more

1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

The Lepton: an electric Vespa... kind of

The Lepton: an electric Vespa... kind of

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 ... read more

1 year, 3 months ago by: kirstendirksen  staff  comments

Who revived the electric car?

Who revived the electric car?

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 ... read more

2 years, 11 months ago by: nicolas.boullosa  staff  1 comments

Industrial hydrogen vehicles: do they have a chance?

Industrial hydrogen vehicles: do they have a chance?

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 ... read more

3 years, 7 months ago by: faircompanies  faircompanies  comments

 

 

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