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Better Place to start battery switchable electric taxi operation
Update 4´th of may: Update 28.th of April: Article from Edmunds.com: http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2010/04/battery-swap-program-begins-in-tokyo-with-taxi-company-demo.html Update 26.th of April: Pictures from todays event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/btrplc/sets/72157623927307852/show/ And this post also has a video: http://www.betterplace.com/global-progress/japan/ This is Better Places chance to prove what many say that will never work: The batter switch technology. I will follow the test closely [...]
3 technologies in 3 weeks
Electric Vehicle: Citroen C1: “Green” Diesel: VW Golf BlueMotion: Hybrid: Toyota Prius 2010: “Fill it up please”: Power, Diesel or Petrol. I have had the opportunity to test these cars in 3 weeks. Not only are the car very different, but the technology are also very different. The C1 EV is a fantastic [...]
Test af Citroen C1 elbil fra ChoosEV
ChoosEV ( http://www.choosev.com/ )stillede en elbil til rådighed for mig over en weekend og den blev brugt flittigt til alle opgaver og jeg kørte over 200 km. Bilen er en almindelig Citroen C1, som er ombygget til elbil af ECC i England ( http://www.theelectriccarcorporation.co.uk/ ). Derfor oplever man en helt almindelig bil, bare uden lyd! [...]
Mini-E electric vehicle blog
This Mini-E field test is not with out problems: http://mini-e.blogspot.com/
EV Tango as an Snow Plow
Tango in the snow – unusual test
BMW reveals details on new Electric Vehicles Active E
This video from Detroit Auto Show showing the Active E including an Application for smart Phones – it looks very nice and I look forward to test it!!!
What kind of news will Better Place break in 2010?
As I see it Better Place need to introduce at least two more automakers that will produce cars that can battery switch. Now they only have Renault with one car that can battery switch ( http://www.easyecar.com/electric-vehicle-test/test-of-renault-fluence-z-e/ ). I think they soon need to announce at least two more. Could that be a Chinese automaker like [...]
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Electric Vehicles to hit the market in 2010
Autobloggreen has made a list of 10 cars that will be on the US market in 2010. There are some very interesting cars among the list. One that I have not heard about in Europe is the Coda Sedan: I hope that I get an opportunity to test them all and please send in tests [...]
MINI E Electric Car Performance in Cold and Ice is Not Good
I am a VERY surprised to see that it is that bad with Li-ion batteries in cold weather. The Li-ion batteries should be a lot less affected that lead acid batteries. I hope that this is a Mini E issue and not a general problem to Li-ion batteries. I will see if this can be [...]
Little yello EV