Imagine if the government had bailed out the horse-drawn carriage business in 1910. How much longer would it have been before the personal transportation industry advanced to the point that everyone could have an automobile? Perhaps the government shouldn’t have bailed out conventional gasoline-powered cars. Maybe it’s time to let the evolution of the automobile take another step forward. Telsa is leading the way for this new horizon and if you ever get a chance to drive one, you’ll quickly learn that you’ll never want to drive a gas vehicle again.
Fisker has made a lot of news lately, most of it better than this story, since they are the hot electric car maker on the market these days. You may have read recently about the Fisker Karma that burst into flames on the side of a road on August 10th. Many people assumed that the fire was caused by the
The great thing about CES is that every now and then an unknown shows off something cool. I'd never heard of Fulton Innovation but they have smart products based around wireless power transmission. Todd learns more about eCoupled from Dave Baarman. Fulton Innovation have developed an inductive coupling solution that scales from simply making a magazine cover light up as
Jeffrey Powers talks to David Wang and Joshua Caillavet of General Electric about the GE EV Watt station, which is a charging station for electric cars. This is a level 2 charger, operating from 240V, rather than 110V, giving shorter recharge times for EVs (electric vehicles), say 4 to 8 hours, rather than 15 to 18 hours associated with a
The car built by Arcimoto, while only a prototype at this point, is intended to become reality. The idea came from that of the incumbent bike. It has two wheels in the front and one in back. That design is intended to make the car lighter and, therefore, use less battery power, which means a longer range. Arcimoto is planning