My 2012 Nissan Leaf had an MSRP of $38,485. I purchased it used less than 3 years later with just over 9800 miles for $11,500. Now, I’m driving a 2014 Certified Used Chevy Volt (with a 12 month/12000 mile bumper-to-bumper warranty) that cost just under $17k (with 28k miles at the time of purchase) – […]
Read more "Cheapskate EV Owner Secrets Revealed"Politics aside, the question that should be asked is why would we continue to drive fossil-fueled powered vehicles if battery technology continues to improve? The price of gasoline has been “affordable” for some time now. But like any commodity, the price can be manipulated by producers and suppliers at will. If you’ve lived longer than […]
Read more "Every year in June, driving their little Nissan EVs, four intrepid Catalan pioneers converge on the jagged mountains of Montserrat. This is the story of Jaume Josa, one of the first four Nissan Leaf owners in Spain. “Jein.” It’s a German word meaning both “yes and no.” And it’s the answer Jaume Josa gives me […]
Read more "The Odyssey of Jaume Josa"It’s transportation acronym time. ICE | EV | HEV | PHEV | BEV | FCEV | HPV First, let’s start with ICE – the Internal Combustion Engine. Modern-day ICEs are marvels of engineering. Fossil fuel is detonated inside a complex machine of hundreds of parts moving at fantastic speeds – an intricate dance of stress, […]
Read more "BEVS and FCEVSFifty years ago, engineers at Chevy were playing around with a Corvair Monza sport sedan they had turned into an all-electric test bed vehicle. Christened the “Electrovair II” it used a 532-volt silver-zinc battery pack array to power a 115 horsepower AC-induction motor, allowing the car to “accelerate as quickly as a standard Corvair, even with a […]
Read more "The Electric Corvair You Couldn’t Buy"When I ran across a Honda Clarity tucked quietly away in the upper South Hall at CES last January, I was introduced to Honda’s concept of generating hydrogen on-site in a stand-alone fueling station. It turns out that Honda had more than a Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle in mind with the Clarity. Just announced are […]
Read more "3X the Clarity"If you’re waiting for breakthrough battery technology before you buy an EV, you probably won’t be driving an electric vehicle anytime soon. Aluminum air. Flow cell. Carbon nanotube. Not that these don’t hold promise. What Tesla is doing with current lithium-ion technology is the right step. Tesla is building a better battery by building a […]
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