2:36 pm in audio video, Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, News, Science & Technology, television, transportation by TreeHugger
Internet, Space Rockets, Electric Cars & Solar Panels
Earlier this week, Bloomberg TV ran an hour-long profile of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur of South-American origins who has been involved in companies like Zip2, Paypal, SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla Motors. While it isn't just about his green activities, it shows that from the very start he's been thinking about ways to have a big impact on the world (his targeted areas: making commerce possible on the Internet, making space exploration cheaper, making clean energy more accessible and cheaper, and ma...
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3:15 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, prototypes, transportation by TreeHugger
A Quick Taste
Tesla has released a sneak peak video that shows a few electric
Model S Alphas driving around a track. It's only a preview, so the video is short, but there's a longer one below with shots of the Model S zipping buy with only tire noises, a nice reminder that there are only electrons under the hood (well, technically, under the hood is a trunk, but you know what I mean...)....
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3:48 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, Science & Technology, solar power by TreeHugger
The conducting tread in this story is Elon Musk: The CEO of
Tesla Motors is also the chairman of
SolarCity, so it is any surprise that SolarCity would start to offer solar-powered chargers for electric cars? (In fact,
it's not the first time they do this) Candace Lombardi w...
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10:22 am in cars, Cars & Transportation, concepts & prototypes, designers, electric vehicles by TreeHugger
All Images Courtesy of Juan Carlos Mendoza Collazos
There are a lot of electric vehicle designs out there. From from
rickshaws to
off-road taxis to
wooden buggies, just about everyone can find an EV that suits them. Now a new design from a Colombian team has a new design to fill another niche: the
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9:45 am in cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, transportation, united states by TreeHugger
Image credit: Toyota
The
early sales success of the Nissan Leaf is a sure sign that there is strong demand for real electric cars. But, as the
recent field trials of the Mini E in England show, barriers still exist. Most notably upfront costs, and concerns about range. Luckily there is a solution already at hand for ...
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3:35 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, News, Science & Technology, transportation by TreeHugger
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Only Available in 7 States So Far, So It's Just the Beginning...
Since it was introduced in 2008, Tesla has sold about 1,650 electric Roadsters in 30 countries. Since it was introduced in a handful of U.S. states about 6 months ago (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Tennessee, Texas, Oregon and Washington, with additional markets launching later this year), the Nissan LEAF electric car has sold over 4,000 units. If that's not a success, I don't know what is. Now of course, the Roadster and ...
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An Electrifying Joint-Venture
As I've previously mentioned, Toyota will make an electric version of its RAV4 small SUV using some Tesla technology. Production of the RAV4 EV is scheduled for 2012, and it has now been announced that the partners will build it in Canada....Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: Chargepoint
I Wonder What Santa Drives...
Coulomb Technologies, the electric vehicle infrastructure company, has announced that it will install 150 'ChargePoint' EV charging stations around the Boston metropolitan area. The money for this comes from a $37 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, and Boston will be just one of many areas that will see ChargePoints pop up like urban mushrooms. When all is said and done, Coulomb plans to have built 4,600 EV charging stations around the U.S.
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Photo: Toyota
Big Deal for Electric Wheels
Tesla Motors is now a public company (which means it's traded on a stock exchange), so when something 'material' happens, something important enough to effect the fortunes of the company, the shareholders must be informed in a publicly-available filing with the SEC. well, if you look at 
