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Going the Distance: Range Anxiety Overlooks EVs’ Sweet Spot
There’s a famous clip from the sitcom Seinfeld, where Kramer takes a car out for a test drive and—with a nervous but eventually supportive salesman in the passenger seat—sees just how far he can drive with the needle dipping well below “E” on the fuel gauge.
When a LEAF Falls
With a $6k price cut on the Nissan LEAF, what does a sub-$20k EV mean for the industry?
Google Hangout: Catalyzing the Shift to Ultralight, Ultrastrong Autobodies
Thanks to all who watched and our Google Hangout on Thursday, February 7 at 11:00 a.m. (MST). The Hangout covered opportunities available today to enhance the use and adoption of carbon fiber composites in mainstream, high-volume vehicles to make them lighter, stronger, and safer. If you'd like to watch the video of the conversation in its entirety it can be viewed here.
Look Who’s Talking: Why Whole-System Transportation Efficiency and Connectedness Can Trump MPG
With 2011’s first-ever heavy-duty truck fuel economy standards, 2012’s new 54.5 mpg fuel economy standard for cars and light trucks by 2025, and no shortage of discussion surrounding hybrids and EVs, mpg and MPGe have been much ballyhooed of late.
Will Boeing’s 787 Battery Issues Ground Electric Vehicles, Too?
There is a history of lithium ion batteries catching fire in electronics. Even more troubling, lithium ion batteries have been implicated in, but not proven to cause, two fatal cargo plane accidents in the last seven years: a UPS 747 and an Asiana 747. How will this affect electric vehicles?