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Today I received a letter from Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) in support of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities regarding Governor Corzine’s Energy Master Plan to place a premium on Basic Generation Services (BGS)… lost yet? Here’s the rub, anyone using more than 2500KWh’s...
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Science magazine has just published an article (Vol. 324 no. 5928, p. 818) and podcast comparing bioelectricity versus bio-ethanol; basically; take biomass such as corn or switch grass and simply burn it to create electricity rather than converting it to ethanol, shipping it to the car and burning it...
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We’re thinking about the earth here at PT; clearly, we all think about the earth when we drive the roadster; the ripping acceleration and super smug-factor have nothing to do with it; we simply put down those dollars to save the world :-) Bother a motorist on Earth Day This morning I drove into...
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Adam Hasner , Majority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives writes in support of the electric vehicle in an article in the American Thinker . Adam points out that, at 120mpg we, the US " ...would reduce our national petroleum consumption by up to two-thirds which coincidentally is the...
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I'm staring down a long highway and I think that I can just make out, in the distance a Stop sign; yes, that's what it is, and it seems to have a Hydrogen symbol on it. I think that's the end of that road. Recently, UK car magazine and TV show Top Gear looked at the all battery powered Tesla...
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Tesla Roadster test-drive | CNET.co.uk UK gadget blog ' crave ' has taken a look at the roadster and driven it around the city. The Brabus version is there too and yes the fake sounds are mad! iMotor has the video My $0.02... it's very, very... very silly! Doug from TeslaMotorsClub grabbed...
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International Business Times has published an article comparing the CO2 output from battery electrics to that of hybrid vehicles concluding that under all the wrong conditions the hybrid betters the electric. What are those conditions? Well, when an electric car is charged from a coal power station....
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The clean energy bill from Obama includes a $2,500 to $5,000 tax credit for the first 200,000 cars that are placed into service, but how long will that last? President Obama is looking to put 1 million zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2015… six years, tops. That’s 166,000 a year…...
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Dan Neil of the LA Times recently captured the spirit of the Tesla Roadster out on the streets of LA in a great piece that we featured here . This week he follows up with a look at the FCX Clarity . Concluding that the car, though svelte in style, is using the wrong technology to store the energy. I...
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On January 22nd, JB Straubel, CTO of Tesla Motors gave a talk on The Tesla Roadster and Tesla Motors at Stanford University. Imran Akbar lifted out some great points made in the talk: The battery pack in a Tesla roadster costs around $25,000 Battery technology is improving at 8% per year in terms of...
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In case you missed it, this Saturday will see 55 plug-in vehicles parade through Santa Monica CA. The Parade starts at 10:00 from Civic south on Main Street to the neighborhood of Ocean park, then back to the Civic via Nielson Way If you’d like to see Tesla Roadsters, the new Mitsibishi iMiEV, some converted...
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We all jumped on Top Gear for suggesting that we would be charging our Tesla Roadsters with wind turbines but, whilst Mr. Clarkson might have had the scale wrong, Stanford University's Mark Z. Jacobson says that wind is the way to power our Tesla Roadsters. But more than that he suggests that the...
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Jamie has just published part three of his quest to buy electric, in the real world. Start at part one here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2329285,00.asp
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Reproduced from the Tesla Motors blog at: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=63 CARB Must Maintain Pressure to Deliver Pure ZEV’s in California by Ze'ev Drori President and CEO published Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering changes to the Zero...
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As you may have heard, there's a lot of hand-wringing going on about how the price of gasoline (petrol) is rising here in the US (and elsewhere). Suddenly, Americans are being forced to pay $4 per gallon to get where they need to go. Four whole bucks. Now, I'm not happy about...