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Ontario’s New Plates Will Help
Ontario is going to introduce a new, green license plate, available exclusively for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. And the benefits of the plates won’t just be aesthetic:
Electric vehicles with the plates will be able to travel in the province’s carpool lanes until 2015 — even if only one person is in the vehicle.
Owners of eligible vehicles can also use recharging stations at GO Transit and other provincially owned parking lots. Owners of those…
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The GOOD 100: Big Brands Bet on Electric
Leading the Charge
A fleet of electric vehicles may seem like a remote reality right now, but if the corporate world is betting right, it is closer than we think. Besides the various car companies now falling over themselves to get electric cars into the market, other major American corporations are starting to get ready for a world in which people need to fill up their ride with a plug and not a pump.
Best Buy is starting its…
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The GOOD 100: Electric Cars
Tesla
As evidenced by the flashy concept renderings all over the internet, every established car company out there, from Ford to Rolls-Royce, has a plug-in vehicle “in development.” But the $109,000 Tesla Roadster is still the only highway-capable plug-in you can actually buy, fully assembled, in America. In July, Tesla accomplished something else car manufacturers should be jealous of: It turned a profit of $1 million.
The road’s been bumpy, though. There have been the nasty legal disputes…
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The GOOD 100: The Great Electric Vehicle Race
Portland vs. San Francisco
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco seem locked in an ongoing battle to become the left coast’s left-most city. To stoke the competition, the blog Gas2.0 has launched a website to track each city’s progress toward building an infrastructure for electric cars. We asked the mayors of both cities to explain what they’re doing to win:
Mayor Gavin Newsom on why the Bay Area will win:
Bay Area consumers have been the early adopters of green…
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Should We Retrofit Our Country Roads for Slow Touring?
America has thousands of miles of single-lane country roads that have fallen into desuetude. Many of them are part of the old numbered highway system and were rendered more or less obsolete when we started building the high-volume, high-speed interstate system in the 1950s.
Now, with more people moving into the cities, these old “heritage roads” are even less relevant. So what should we do with them in the 21st century? Kim Gallagher, a project manager for…
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Nissan’s Land Glider: Lean Wit’ It
Nissan has a new concept car out called the Land Glider. It’s a tiny, light-weight electric four-wheeler that actually leans as you drive. Watch any 20 seconds of the video below (complete with space music).
The Nissan representative overseeing the project says “Although you are driving on the road, you feel as if you are flying.” That sounds nice. And, in fact, there’s no indication that there’s any other benefit to the leaning at all.
UPDATE: BMW has something…
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Maybe the Road Itself Can Charge Your Car
A German company called IAV has just received a patent for technology that would allow a strip embedded in the road to charge your electric car wirelessly while you drive. Gas2.0 explains:
IAV has achieved 90% efficient transmission for electric vehicle charging from roads using recessed electrical conductors that generate a magnetic field; activated only when the sensor detects that an electric car is over the induction field. Radio chips would identify individual electric vehicles for correct…
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Infrastructure Électrique: France Spends $2.2 Billion on Charging Stations
While San Francisco and Portland race to build America’s first city-wide electric car infrastructure, France (which already beat us to bike sharing) may have just lapped them both in an electric Citroen. The French government just announced it will spend $2.2 billion on a network of electric car charging stations:
The government will make the installation of charging sockets obligatory in office parking lots by 2015, and new apartment blocks with parking lots will have to include…
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Ontario’s New Plates Will Help
Ontario is going to introduce a new, green license plate, available exclusively for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. And the benefits of the plates won’t just be aesthetic:
Electric vehicles with the plates will be able to travel in the province’s carpool lanes until 2015 — even if only one person is in the vehicle.
Owners of eligible vehicles can also use recharging stations at GO Transit and other provincially owned parking lots. Owners of those…
Read & Discuss
Should We Retrofit Our Country Roads for Slow Touring?
America has thousands of miles of single-lane country roads that have fallen into desuetude. Many of them are part of the old numbered highway system and were rendered more or less obsolete when we started building the high-volume, high-speed interstate system in the 1950s.
Now, with more people moving into the cities, these old “heritage roads” are even less relevant. So what should we do with them in the 21st century? Kim Gallagher, a project manager for…
Read & Discuss
Nissan’s Land Glider: Lean Wit’ It
Nissan has a new concept car out called the Land Glider. It’s a tiny, light-weight electric four-wheeler that actually leans as you drive. Watch any 20 seconds of the video below (complete with space music).
The Nissan representative overseeing the project says “Although you are driving on the road, you feel as if you are flying.” That sounds nice. And, in fact, there’s no indication that there’s any other benefit to the leaning at all.
UPDATE: BMW has something…
Read & Discuss
Maybe the Road Itself Can Charge Your Car
A German company called IAV has just received a patent for technology that would allow a strip embedded in the road to charge your electric car wirelessly while you drive. Gas2.0 explains:
IAV has achieved 90% efficient transmission for electric vehicle charging from roads using recessed electrical conductors that generate a magnetic field; activated only when the sensor detects that an electric car is over the induction field. Radio chips would identify individual electric vehicles for correct…
Read & Discuss
Infrastructure Électrique: France Spends $2.2 Billion on Charging Stations
While San Francisco and Portland race to build America’s first city-wide electric car infrastructure, France (which already beat us to bike sharing) may have just lapped them both in an electric Citroen. The French government just announced it will spend $2.2 billion on a network of electric car charging stations:
The government will make the installation of charging sockets obligatory in office parking lots by 2015, and new apartment blocks with parking lots will have to include…
Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: Big Brands Bet on Electric
Leading the Charge
A fleet of electric vehicles may seem like a remote reality right now, but if the corporate world is betting right, it is closer than we think. Besides the various car companies now falling over themselves to get electric cars into the market, other major American corporations are starting to get ready for a world in which people need to fill up their ride with a plug and not a pump.
Best Buy is starting its…
Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: Electric Cars
Tesla
As evidenced by the flashy concept renderings all over the internet, every established car company out there, from Ford to Rolls-Royce, has a plug-in vehicle “in development.” But the $109,000 Tesla Roadster is still the only highway-capable plug-in you can actually buy, fully assembled, in America. In July, Tesla accomplished something else car manufacturers should be jealous of: It turned a profit of $1 million.
The road’s been bumpy, though. There have been the nasty legal disputes…
Read & Discuss
The GOOD 100: The Great Electric Vehicle Race
Portland vs. San Francisco
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco seem locked in an ongoing battle to become the left coast’s left-most city. To stoke the competition, the blog Gas2.0 has launched a website to track each city’s progress toward building an infrastructure for electric cars. We asked the mayors of both cities to explain what they’re doing to win:
Mayor Gavin Newsom on why the Bay Area will win:
Bay Area consumers have been the early adopters of green…
Read & Discuss
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