Is This The World’s Coolest Tesla Charger? In addition to designing sleek cars, Tesla also designs eye-catching electric vehicle chargers. However, someone else appears to be stealing the limelight. According to Inverse, “When Tony Caciolo put the finishing touches on his Tesla electric car charger, he didn’t expect to become an internet sensation. The destination charger is styled like a [...]
World's Largest Wind Turbine to Test Its Wings Rotterdam's skyline will soon feature the world's largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine. GE Renewable Energy announced on Wednesday it will install the first 12-megawatt Haliade-X prototype in the Dutch city this summer. Although it's an offshore wind turbine by design, the prototype will be installed onshore to facilitate access for testing. It's not [...]
A Look Inside The Tesla Cold Weather Testing Facility Cold weather and electric cars are not friends, they are like people being the happiest when the temperature outside is between 70 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Cold batteries don’t charge or discharge as fast as they do when they are warm, heating systems eat up a lot [...]
Turning Solar Energy Into Liquid Fuel How About Turning Sunshine Into Liquid Fuel For Solar Thermal Energy Storage? Of all the strange things we do as a race on this planet, refining and over-complicating things are some of them. We’re never satisfied with letting things be and often time favor extravagant conspiracy theories over reality. After [...]
Considering An E-Bike Instead Of An Electric Car A new mode of transportation, electric bikes (or e-bikes) are starting to become more popular because they represent a middle ground between a nearly impact-free alternative, and keeps you in good shape. Could they really be superior to electric cars in terms of environmental impact? But First, What Is [...]
10 Common Electric Car Myths Busted For most consumers, electric vehicles are still the cars of the future. Yet with many new battery-powered rides scheduled for release in the coming years, the future is closer than many might believe. Those who remain unschooled in the virtues of plug-in vehicles often hold onto dated and inaccurate perceptions [...]
Kids Get To Surgery In Style! "Going in for surgery at such a young age must be terrifying. The few surgeries I’ve had as an adult scared the wits out of me. Having a fun way to get into the room can really help to set them up with a positive, fun attitude, which can make [...]
EV Charging Is Getting Faster — Slowly Siemens, Porsche, and BMW formed a research group called FastCharge in 2016 with the mission to make EV charging faster. Last week, a Porsche Taycan test vehicle plugged into a new ultra-fast 450 kW charger developed by the group and took on enough electricity to drive an extra 62 [...]
Top Electric Car Benefits & Top Misconceptions There’s nothing like experience. You can read and write about something all day, but until you experience it, it’s just a concept, and you don’t really understand it. So, with that in mind, it is often interesting and useful to collect feedback from actual EV drivers about what they [...]
Meanwhile In China, The Electric Mobility Revolution Is In Full Swing Nanjing Golden Dragon Bus Company was originally a state-owned enterprise producing traditional fuel buses. But in 2010, the business faced the dilemma of continuing to produce fuel buses, or to start developing less-popular EV buses [which required private investments]. At the time, Mr. Huang Hongsheng, [...]
