Tag electric vehicles

GM and Segway working on self-balancing 2-wheeler

PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility Project) is a self-balancing two-wheeled vehicle, capable of 25 mph, that will go 25 miles between charges – and monitor and communicate with traffic around it. In other GM news, the company says they…

Obama announces $2.4 billion for electric vehicles

Obama has announced $2.4 billion in grants to develop EVs, their batteries, and the infrastructure to handle it, welcome news indeed. This includes The Department of Energy is offering up to $1.5 billion in grants to U.S. based manufacturers to…

Electric Drag Racing

Oregon Public Radio profiles White Zombie, a ’72 Datsun turned onto a street legal electric vehicle that routinely blows away Corvettes, BMWs and most anything else at the drag strip, while setting world records. Also profiled is an electric motorcycle…

Car 2.0. Electric, with a smart grid

Better Place plans to build a $1 billion electric vehicle charging network in the Bay Area with the support of city and state policies, the region that brought you the 2.0 moniker stands poised to usher in a whole new…