Another stark warning this week that we may have reached, or will shortly reach, Peak Oil. Click here. Simply put, this is the moment when the world produces as much oil as it can, because there will never be as much again. From now on, or so the experts say, less and less will flow… Continue reading
Posts tagged EV
UK drivers to plug into the sun
Britain’s first solar powered electric car charger (the eTap) will open next month (July 2011) at the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) at Rainham, Essex. Motorists will pay £1 to plug in at one of the six charging points under the solar panel roof, and then 63p for every hour the electric vehicle (EV)… Continue reading →
Wire up for an electric holiday
If you owned an electric car, would you take it on holiday with you? The answer, with range anxiety alarm bells ringing, is probably not. You would need somewhere to charge it, and the prospect of threading a wire through the landlady’s kitchen window at the B&B is a bit daunting. Hotels wouldn’t be any… Continue reading →
Tread lightly on the planet, Swedish style
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 →
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 →