Posts Tagged ‘Electric Cars’

The Holy Grail of clean energy economy is in sight: Affordable storage for wind and solar

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Enabling safe, clean energy that will never run out is a key to averting catastrophic climate change. Roughly half the “solution” to global warming is solar and wind [see " How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm "]. Of course, many U.S. concentrated solar plants will use low-cost, high-efficiency thermal storage . In the longer term, plug-in hybrids and electric cars are likely to play a key role in storage, if issues surrounding battery life can be solved and/or battery

Elektromotive at Goodwood

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
This year the Goodwood Festival of Speed (3 to 5 June) will showcase some of the world’s newest and most sophisticated electric cars and motorcycles. To ensure they all remain fully charged for their multiple emissions-free runs up the legendary 1.6-mile hill-climb, Brighton-based Elektromotive is supplying the event organisers with four Elektrobays, the world’s only electric vehicle charging station in widespread day-to-day use. Already a familiar site on the streets of London and various l