Electric Vehicles
Energy 101: Electric Vehicles
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Electric Vehicles , Featured , Transportation The U.S. Department of Energy recently released this video - Energy 101: Electric Vehicles. "The basic principles behind the technology are this: the electric vehicle’s battery transfers energy to an electric motor, Read more
National Model for Electric Vehicle Deployment
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Business , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Hybrids , Infrastructure , Transportation A new coalition of executives from blue chip companies in the transportation and utility industries recently announced it has come together to design a large-scale electric vehicle (EV) demonstration project that will help create a comprehensive national model for EV deployment. Read more
Ground Breaks on West Coast Electric Highway
Posted on January, 2012 Categories: Building Green , Business , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Featured , Infrastructure , Transportation It’s the first sign of a border-to-border network of public electric-vehicle charging stations and the first stop on Washington’s segment of the West Coast Electric Highway along 276 miles of Interstate 5 between the state’s borders with Oregon and Canada. Read more
Testing Electric Vehicles to Optimize their Performance with Power Grids
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Infrastructure , Transportation Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently released a technical report that could help improve the performance of electric vehicles (EVs) and the efficiency of the electric utility grids that power them. Read more
With Changes, the Grid Can Take It
Posted on December, 2011 Categories: Building Green , Communities , Electric Vehicles , Energy , Featured , Geothermal , Infrastructure , Smart Grid , Solar , Transportation , Wind Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, as well as an expected influx Read more
Study Forecasts Increase in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Sales Over Next 5 Years
Posted on November, 2011 Categories: Electric Vehicles , Featured , Transportation The Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing industry will pick up speed over the next five years. Revenue is anticipated to increase 6.3% per year to $4.2 billion in the five years to 2016, Read more
The Spark EV
Posted on October, 2011 Categories: Check It Out! , Consumer , Electric Vehicles , Transportation Chevrolet announced it will produce an all-electric version of the Chevrolet Spark mini-car – the Spark EV. It will be sold in limited quantities in select U.S. and global markets starting in 2013, including California. Read more
NASA Awards Historic Green Aviation Prize
Posted on October, 2011 Categories: Business , Electric Vehicles , Transportation NASA recently awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, Read more