A Swedish family has cut its CO² output by 80% in a six-month experiment, using available technology allied to some not too drastic domestic behavioral change. Nils andAlicia Lindell and their children Hannah and Jonathan lived in a purpose-built, solar panel and hydro-electricity powered house in Hasselby Villastad in the suburbs of Stockholm. The parents… Continue reading
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One small charging point for A1, one giant leap for electric cars?
One small charging point just off the A1, one giant leap for electric cars? We always risk overstating a case in our eagerness to press Neil Armstrong’s immortal line from the moon into service one more time. But wait. It will now be possible to drive an electric car from Newcastle to Edinburgh (121 miles) with … Continue reading →
Could "Boris Bikes" concept extend to electric cars in London?
Here is is a story from history – or August 9, 2007, to be precise. “Ken Livingstone has ordered a feasibility study into a scheme which would see travellers hiring and dropping off bikes from street corners. The Mayor of London has been inspired by a scheme that was introduced in Paris just weeks… Continue reading →
Will the Bug be a beacon for electric power?
How are electric vehicles (EVs) to catch on? Make them small, delicate and vulnerable like the G-Wiz and people only feel sorry for them. Build them mainstream and blandly family-focused like the excellent Nissan Leaf and you’re unlikely to even notice them on the street. The slick super performers like the Tesla Roadster are top… Continue reading →
Making Hay, with an electric connection
Here’s a challenge to the Hay festival organisers. Something to set up for the 2012 event, perhaps? Start a campaign to make it possible for at least some of the very many celebrity guests to travel from London (where I assume most begin their journeys) the 184 miles to this small town in the Welsh… Continue reading →
Car plant to generate enough solar power to make 7000 cars a year.
There’s nothing like a wind turbine to excite local passions, and fill village halls to bursting with angry villagers who have nothing against renewable energy except that they don’t want it here. Solar panels are harder to oppose. The best opponents of one particular scheme close to where I live could come up with was… Continue reading →