What happened this weekend with electric vehicles, EVs?
San Jose Drove Electric. Mercury News from San Jose reports that Saturday’s declaration of energy independence in Palo Alto at the annual Electric Vehicle Rally were happy both presidential candidates support weaning the nation off foreign oil. By chanting against “Drill, baby, drill!”, participants at the rally offered test rides of electric cars, bikes, scooters, trucks, and SUVs. Nothing beats actually trying it and being wowed.
3% EVs, HEVs and PHEVs by 2015, according to Green Energy News, that is how many EVs, hybrid, HEV and pluh-in hybrids, PHEVs Bosch believes will ber on the road by 2015. Bosch has already invested a lot in the technology. It will be interesting to revisit this number in 7 years. It’s a date!
Ford PHEV Fuel Cell. According to Automotive World, Ford is now working on the first PHEV fuel cell with is Edge HySeries. Fascinating…
Harnessing Wind Energy For Later Use. Truly fascinating news according to Clean Break, human ingenuity knows no bounds. Consider taking wind energy storing in turbines at its base, not in the nacelle using hydraulic accumulators in conventional high-pressure pipeline storage banks, enabling its use as on-demand peak power. Absolutely brilliant. We wish them much success. Pickens should rejoice.
Lithium Prices Could Go Down? Remember our weekend post on lithium battery prices? EcoGeek reported that battery manufacturer Ener1 announced they forecast an 50% drop in their price as production increases. Though there is little to substantiate this yet, it will be good to cover it in the next few months.
GM Strikes Back. After being covered in the news ad nausea, GM decides to take back the reigns with its “Setting The Record Straight” program. So the Volt is real then. And the LA Times defends the old company as being alive and kicking and nowhere ready to go under. Yeay!
Never a dull moment with news surrounding electric vehicles. Sometimes it’s hard keeping a level head and staring into the horizon. One thing is for certain, we are seeing current working alternative EVs on the road. Obviously, there aren’t a lot but they are making a difference or else no one would talk about them, at least not as much.