From a press release received today:-
The Phoenix Motor company http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com of America are about to market an electric SUV that can do 95 Miles Per Hour and over 100 miles per charge. The normal charge takes several hours but a special 250 KW external charger can do it 10 minutes.
Robert Sharpe has produced a database of electric vehicles that can be seen here.
zerocarbonbritain is a report prepared by the Centre for Alternative Technology with the help of others. It details how Britain can eliminate emissions from fossil fuels in 20 years and break our dependence on imported energy. It demonstrates how we can achieve this by halving energy demand and installing massive renewable energy generation. The report can be downloaded and I have copied their short video to this site. I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing a presentation by one of the reports lead authors, Tim Helweg-Larsen, at a meeting of the Claverton Energy Group yesterday. Tim is a director of the Public Interest Research Group.
There seem to be so many advantages of a trolley-bus (or tbus) over a diesel powered bus for main routes, I wonder why we don’t used them? Quiet, potentially no air pollution, tough…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus#Advantages
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