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In addition to CAFE requirements of a 54.5-mpg fleet average at least 15.4 percent of all cars sold by any major automaker doing business in California will have to be either fully electric, a plug-in hybrid or be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell by 2025. 1) What happens if Californians don’t buy their required [...] Wired.com The California Air Resources Board has proposed major changes in regulating vehicle emissions in hopes of improving California’s air quality, which is the worst in the nation. The plan combines four sets of standards into the Advanced Clean Cars program. The changes would be sweeping and all-inclusive. By 2025, auto manufacturers doing business [...] Inductive charging could be standard in Europe within ten years. German researchers and Nissan are both working on it. Should anyone try to introduce it here in the US, I’m sure NIMBYs and vested interests will block it for years, just as they’ve done with offshore wind. Truly, it is far better we argue [...] Drive it if you dare. “An electric streamliner designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class [1,100 lbs.], averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was clocked at 175 mph.” It weighs 440 lbs., holds one person, and is completely electric. The solar-paneled hanger comes with the plane. The Nissan Leaf electric vehicle in Japan can now send power back into a house. They say it’ll power a Japanese house for two days (which probably translates to 12 hours for power-hungry US homes.) But still. This is amazing technology. Just the things for blackouts, and for smoothing out power in the grid. [...] CleanTechnica has the details. As created by the legendary Gordon Murray, who designed winning Formula 1 cars and the McLaran F1. Gas 2.0 has the specs. Denmark gets it. 34% of the their energy is renewable and their grid can handle it.Now they are testing having electric vehicle owners sell excess power to the grid. CleanTechnica has the details |  | ||||
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