A South Korea amusement park now has a prototype Online Electric Vehicle. It recharges magnetically from buried electric cables. This eliminates downtime for recharging, avoids overhead wiring, and greatly reduces the battery size needed.
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Solar-powered plug-in charging stations
Carbon Day Automotive plans to roll them out nationwide. Users can access all info, like billing and locations, off mobile devices.
Renault-Nissan to provide 18,000 Japanese hotels with EV charging stations
They will also promote eco-travel, zero-emission tours, and electric vehicles in general.
Hawaii opens first public electric vehicle charging station
It’ll be in Honolulu, and free to all until March.
Hawai’i is really the ideal electric vehicle target, and in one week, it’ll be even more perfect. After all, the islands are small (no reason for range anxiety), it’s warm (no cold weather effect on batteries), it imports a lot of oil, which [...]
Toyota developing solar-powered electric vehicle charging stations
They will install 21 of them soon. The stations can put power back into the grid when the batteries are full and no cars need charging.
U.S. Army’s new research center puts fossil fuels on notice
The Army is researching hybrid and fuel cells for vehicles as well as better battery systems. They understand that energy security means creating your own energy.
The Army is well aware of its potential for pulling the entire civilian market into a more sustainable future in which oil and other fossil fuels follow national defense goals [...]
The Electrification Coalition wants an electrified transportation system
Their members consist of major corporations across multiple industries and venture capital too.
Three wheeled hybrid does 0-60 mph in 5 seconds
The eVaro plug-in hybrid sports car from Future Vehicles Technology gets up to 275 miles per gallon and can go 100 miles on the batteries alone. It’s competing in the Progressive Auto X-Prize which has a top award of $10 million.
Inhabitat has more.
Mavizen’s 130 MPH TTX02 electric motorcycle runs on Linux
And it has wi-fi. Tweet while riding! (Except where prohibited by grumpy lawmakers)
It’s a tricycle, it’s an EV, it’s a Meyers Motors NmG
It’s all electric and quite speedy, capable of doing 75 mph.
Zip is what this vehicle has, and in spades. The punchiness comes from the 140 ft. lbs of torque, which is more than enough for a little trike of this size. Everyone who took the car our for a test drive did pretty much what [...]
Not your dad’s electric vehicles
Sparky the Electric Bug was built by Manitou High School in Colorado Springs and runs on 12 volt batteries. Inhabitat features this and other tricked-out EVs.
Given that EVs have full power instantly from a standing stop, Sparky can probably blow the hubcaps off most sports cars from a stop light.
France announces $2.2 billion electric car charging network
If the US wants to encourage EVs on the road, they it needs to do what France is doing. Jump start the process with a nationwide charging system.
Killacycle motorcycle sets new record for electric vehicles
7.68 in the quarter mile, doing 169 mph. A new record for EVs.
Solar powered recharging stations for EVs
This Denmark prototype will recharge up to eight vehicles at a time.
