Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Renault It’s not often that an automaker says this about its own car: “It looks like a toy and drives like a toy.” Sure, Renault follows this up with, “but it isn’t a toy,” but by that point the message has been delivered: the all-electric Renault Twizy is not your unusual vehicle. [...]
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Manufacturing/Plants, Nissan After the devastating earthquake in Japan earlier this year, what was at the top of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn’s list of things to do? Make sure production of the all-electric Leaf got back on track. This important point was revealed in an article in the New York Times about Ghosn’s [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, UK Over the past year and a half, HaloIPT has been working hard at moving inductive power transfer – a wireless charging technology – from the labs at the University of Auckland where it was developed into actual vehicles, such as the Rolls Royce 102 EX. Apparently they’ve been doing [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Germany It looks like this whole battery-powered-vehicle business is going to continue extending to more and more types of transportation. The latest to fall to the liquid fuel-free fad is the multicopter, and its first airborne efforts have been caught on video. Developed by e-volo in Germany, the 80 kg [...]
Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Green Culture We think Nissan has found its new spokesman for the all-electric Leaf. A microbiologist at the University of Arizona known as “Dr. Germ” says he’s identified gas pumps as the biggest biohazard in modern society. According to The Los Angeles Times, the results of the good doctor’s research show [...]
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, USA While Brammo’s production arrangement with Flextronics was a pretty significant deal, their latest strategic partnership may prove even more momentous. Powersports powerhouse Polaris Industries has helped close out its $ 28 million series B funding round in style and committed to synergistically dipping their vast peanut butter resources [...]
