Friday, July 11th, 2008
Electric Car Conversion Information
I still really want to make an electric car. The main argument against electric vehicles I’ve heard recently is that they deliver an environmental mess courtesy of the batteries. From what I’ve read tonight, that just isn’t the case. According to the Electric Auto Association:
The Battery Council International reports that 93% of all battery lead [...]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Convert Almost Any Car to Electric
A nice article with a broad view of electric vehicle conversion from the good folks over at TreeHugger.com
Read the article: Converting Your Car to an Electric Vehicle
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Convert Your VW Into an Electric Vehicle!
Yes it’s true! You can convert your VW into an electric car with the kits available at e-volks.com. It’s pretty amazing really. I read about this website in Make magazine, and it looks really cool. The guy in the article made his car not only electric, but solar as well, by [...]
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Discovery’s Future Car TV Show Talks Fuel
The Discovery channel is 3/4 of the way through their four part series on the car of the future, appropriately called Future Car. The most recent episode was about fuel and hit on everything from ethanol, bio-diesel, hydrogen and solar all the way to having a car powered by air.
A few of the finer [...]
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Another Entry in the Electric Car Market
Let’s hear it for cute little electric cars! This one comes from India and is apparently being test marketed in the USA.
Read more about this cute little number here, and at the Reva website.
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
More Electric Car News, But This Time With Sex Appeal
Tesla has a very sexy new electric sports car that can go 0-60 in 4 seconds while lookin’ good the whole time!
Sexy Electric
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Hybrids and Clean Cars Starting to Get Preferential Treatment
It’s only a start, but it’s something. Cities around the country are starting to give a wider array of incentives to drive a clean car: like free parking.
Respect the Hybrid!
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
“Who Killed the Electric Car?” Go See the Movie
This is an excellent movie, and it makes GM look REALLY bad. I’m sure that GM will have plenty to say in defense, but I won’t be able to believe any of it after the strong case presented in the film. People were lined up, conducting a 24 hour vigil with money in [...]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
New Movie: “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
This new movie is apparently so dangerous that it can only be seen if you are in just the right place at the right time. It may be the Dick Cheney of environmental films, primarily hiding in an undisclosed location. All mildly-to-moderately funny jokes aside, you really have to work to see “Who [...]
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
Super-Cute Electric Car: The Tango
George Clooney has a new car that he showed off in the recent “Green Issue” of Vanity Fair. It’s called the Tango and is made by Commuter Cars Corporation out of Spokane Washington. I have not had the privilege of seeing one in person, but from the website they look pretty awesome.
