Wondrous electric bike powered by Bosch 18W power drills!
It’ll do 20 mph, but maybe much faster if you upgrade to 36V drills. Seriously.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Tag electric vehicles
Car battery of the future. IBM is working on it
Scoble profiles IBM’s research into lithium air batteries for cars. [IBM] hopes to have a lithium air battery in cars by 2020. A battery that could power a car for 500 miles would certainly be worth the wait.
Electric conversion of Japanese sportscar has range of 341 miles
TGMY converted the already stunning Mitsuoka Himiko to full electric. The banks of lithium polymer batteries give it a claimed range of 341 miles, far more than any other EV.
BMW electric mini
Not available commercially yet. Hopefully soon! They are testing 450 of them in the States and found, among others things, that extreme cold or heat lessen the range on the battery. What they’ve learned will be used in future iterations…
Electric vehicles are not clean
The dirty little secret of plug-in vehicles is that they’ll all charge their batteries with inherently dirty night-time power and be responsible for more CO2 emissions than a fuel efficient Prius-class HEV that costs a third less and doesn’t have…