For some time now I’ve been harping on the problem of infrastructure as the central difficulty in the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Better Place, a company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, has come up with an innovative approach to solving that very problem – swapping stations to change out spent car batteries with fresh [...]
The nails in the coffin of W.’s legacy just keep getting hammered faster and with more fury. On Thursday, May 7, President Barack Obama cut the Bush era plan — all $1.2 billion worth of it — to develop hydrogen fuel cell cars. Not only does it save taxpayers $100 million a year, but it [...]
I’ve made no bones about the fact that I’m not a fan of the Tesla Roadster, which I see as uber-expensive, rich-guy toy. My eye is more on the introduction of the Chevy Volt and the plug-in Prius scheduled for 2011. Those are the vehicles that will pioneer the use of electrics by the rest [...]