Nissan Leaf Deliveries Not Affected by Japan Quake, States UK Company Official
Nissan UK has assured its customers that they won't get left out of Leafs, even if Japan's earthquake has destroyed most of the transportation infrastructure in the country. So far, 550 orders worth some $42,000 have been fulfilled.
Fully-Electric Honda Civic Developed by Carnegie Mellon University
The Robotics Institute of CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), in collaboration with some researchers such as Illah Nourbakhsh of the institute's Create Lab, have successfully converted a 2002 Civic EX four-door sedan into a fully electric one. The vehicle will be unveiled at an open house near CMU on March 25.
Pennsylvania To Have 66 New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
San Diego-based 350Green plans to build 66 electric-vehicle charging stations in Pennsylvania, mostly around Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. As the company said, the $2.6 million project announced last week will be finished by the middle of 2012. It is also scaled to accommodate around 33,000 EVs.
Google Adds Electric Car Charging Spots Layer to Its Maps Application
Google has lately been at the forefront of web applications applied to green technologies. Their initiatives in the field have kinda been waiting for this one: the inclusion of the nearest EV charging station in Google Maps.
Vending Machines as Electric Vehicle Chargers In Japan From March
Although few for the moment, electric cars in Japan already have a bright future when it comes to charging, as a consortium made from ten companies want to give beverage vending machines another use: you guessed.... EV chargers.
Ford Giving Up on EVs? Not Quite, But They Focus on All Kinds of...
One of the many things I learned in life is that people lose their dreams and never see them fulfilled just because they give up. So is the case with Ford, it seems, who is apparently a little circumspect at which technology to follow... at least for a while.
Estonia Plans to Set Up Electric Vehicle Charging Network by 2012
The Estonian government has recently announced that it plans to create a nationwide network of charge-points for electric cars. According to some officials, the country would sell 10 million carbon credits to Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation in order to meet this goal.
Renault Twizy Announced To Be The Cheapest Urban EV Yet!
The time for cheap electric cars has come. After last year's announcement of their Twizy, the two-seat urban electric vehicle at the Paris Auto Show (which we attended, btw), Renault is now announcing dirt cheap prices on the same EV that nobody ever thought of and could hardly match.
Daymak Shadow Ebike: The First Wirelessly-Controlled Electric Bicycle
No brake cables, to gear cables, nothing at all, except for some 2.4 GHz emitters and receivers, a gadgetized front wheel and regenerative braking. You all know what that is, I presume... it's recharging the batteries when you brake, by switching the DC motor's function to reverse.
Chicago to Have 280 EV Charging Spots by End of 2011
After in late 2010 the petrol capital of Houston has been announced the recipient of a $10 million investment in electric car recharging networks, it's not Chicago's turn, as utility Exelon, along with the city led by newly appointed Mayor Rahm Emanuel want to build 280 charging stations... by the end of 2011.
