Music for an electric ride

I often listen to froots podcast – try the latest episode….

http://froots.podomatic.com/

5 seat family electric car

From the ETA newsletter -

http://www.eta.co.uk/first_five_seater_electric_family_car/node/10885

GM Chevy Volt – will batteries and charging points be ready by 2010?

See this article from the Independent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/gm-looks-to-an-electric-avenue-874877.html?

Green cars at the British Motor Show

I intend to go to the motor show and take a close look at the electric cars. This video at the Guardian shows a glimpse of some of them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/jul/23/british.motor.show.green

Nice at LONDON AWARE08

Nice, the electric vehicle supplier, told me at their stand at London Aware08 they are now agents for a range of Fiat based electric vehicles produced by Micro-Vett. But they will not be supplying cars from Th!nk.

Electric SUV from Phoenix Motor company

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.

Electric vehicles compared

Robert Sharpe has produced a database of electric vehicles that can be seen here.

zerocarbonbritain

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.

Why are there no trolley buses in London?

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

Listen again to Turner

You can listen to Lord Turner answering questions from the select committee here: http://greenworld.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/49 . Alternatively search for greenworld in the Jellycast site and listen to the session from there.