Tesla Motors and Daimler AG are developing an electric Smart microcar, with plans to initially make 1,000 of the vehicles available near the end of 2009.
CEO Elon Musk said his San Carlos, California-based electric carmaker has been working with Daimler since late 2007 to produce the vehicles for lease customers. Tesla will produce the battery pack and charger for the Smart electric car.
What Plug-In America called 'The Largest EV Parade EVer' took place at 9.30 AM on Saturday January 17 at the Santa Monica Civic Center (map). With over 60 plug-in and pure electric vehicles rallying and driving in formation through city streets, ...it'll be a charge you won't want to miss! And the message for Congress, Detroit and Barack Obama is this: America wants the most fuel efficient cars EVer made. Pre-Inaugural Plug-In Parade Report
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Dear Village People,
Detroit this past week provided a steady source of good news about electric cars, with EVs and new hybrids on display in abunadance at the 2009 International Auto Show. Meanwhile, mainstream manufacturers are begining to show encouraging signs of gearing up for an historic automotive rev-o-lution. The buzz about batteries came from GM, announcing LG Chem Ltd. will make batteries for the Chevy VOLT. But wait, there's more, ---see what Daimler, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Ford, GM, Chrysler (and more) all have in mind for our electric future, ...an arousing array of emission-busting cars, which can only bring much needed change to the automotive industry and fresh new jobs at the time they're needed most, which is rat NOW!
Tesla Roadster Sport - 15% More Peak
SAN CARLOS, Calif.- (January 11, 2009) - Tesla Motors Inc. began taking orders today for the Roadster Sport, a high-performance sports car based on the world`s leading all-electric, zero-emission vehicle. The Roadster Sport will do 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds, compared with 3.9 seconds for the standard Roadster.
Paul Liddle, 44, drives an exotic Porsche 959, or at least a car that looks like one. It can hit 60 miles an hour from a stop in less than five seconds, he says, although its top speed of about 125 miles an hour is much less than a real 959.
"BIG automotive change is being driven by innovations in the batteries that now power modern electronics. If hybrid gasoline-electric cars are provided with advanced batteries (GM's announcement said its choice is lithium-ion) having improved energy and power density -- variants of the ones in our computers and cell phones -- dozens of vehicle prototypes are now demonstrating that these "plug-in hybrids" can more than double hybrids' overall (gasoline) mileage. With a plug-in, charging your car overnight from an ordinary 110-volt socket in your garage lets you drive 20 miles or more on the electricity stored in the topped-up battery before the car lapses into its normal hybrid mode. If you forget to charge or exceed 20 miles, no problem, you then just have a regular hybrid with the insurance of liquid fuel in the tank. And during those 20 all-electric miles you will be driving at a cost of between a penny and three cents a mile instead of the current 10-cent-a-mile cost of gasoline." - R. James Woolsey (excerpt from *Gentlemen, Start Your Plug-Ins).
Upwards and onwards,
David Cutter a.k.a. EV Rider Village Energy / NEW ENERGY NEWS / Drive-electric.com
Village Energy View:
A commitment to clean energy would reduce pollution, create millions of high tech jobs, diversify our energy sources, add to global energy security and save billions of dollars. A much-needed transition to solar, wind power and other renewable energy in every region of the world holds the promise of a better future for us, our children and for future generations.
* "Subsidizing expensive substitutes for petroleum, ignoring the massive infrastructure costs needed to fuel family cars with hydrogen, searching for a single elegant solution--none of this has worked, nor will it. Instead we should encourage a portfolio of inexpensive fuels, including electricity, that requires very little infrastructure change and let its components work together: A 50 mpg hybrid, once it becomes a plug-in, will likely get solidly over 100 mpg of gasoline (call it "mpgg"); if it is also a flexible fuel vehicle using 85% ethanol, E-85, its mpgg rises to around 500." - R.J. Woolsey.
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