DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Renewable Revolution
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Renewables
*****************************************************
#Post#: 2621--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 29, 2015, 6:01 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[center]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-280914153654.gif[/center]
[center]INSANE
Mode
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-051113192052.png<br
/>[/center]
[center]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaLgF1uLB8&feature=player_embedded[/center]
Agelbert NOTE: The so-called "Insane" mode is a security
measure a Tesla driver has available if someone is intent on car
jacking. It is quite sane to have high acceleration available
instantly.
Anyone who has ever driven next to a person exhibiting road rage
or had to dodge a drunk, distracted or reckless driver can
attest to that. 8)
Brian Donovan
January 29, 2015
Electric cars have had an "old persons car" problem since their
inception. It's brilliant marketing and design to completely
demolish that concept and make gas cars the tame ones. Top Gear
needs to do a race with these cars.
Dennis Houghton
January 29, 2015
Electric motors deliver high torque at low RPM, gasoline engines
require high RPM to deliver high torque. The performance curve
is reversed in the two types of drive systems. Electric
dragsters could win every race but produce little of the tire
smoke and engine noise necessary to the motor sport experience.
Three of the first five in the latest Peak's Peak race were
electric; higher torque at lower speeds.
The first couple of years of the Prius demonstrated the
extraordinary torque delivered by electric motors. Drivers who
tried to accelerate the Prius in its unnamed "insane mode" aka
"foot-to-the-floorboard", occasionally snapped the drive shaft.
Customers were not impressed.
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/swear1.gif
Manufacturers quickly
built in torque control to prevent the negative outcome. Tesla
engineered a physical solution in a more robust drive train
:emthup: and allowed the driver to intentionally over ride
torque control, a feature that is probably used mostly during
the sales process and occasionally to show off to your envious
friends.
Full article an comments here:
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/reading.gif
What Solar Marketers Can Learn from Tesla’s “Insane” Mode
HTML http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2015/01/what-solar-marketers-can-learn-from-teslas-insane-mode
#Post#: 2746--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 26, 2015, 1:42 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
--- Quote ---
>
> Great article! My wife and I own a Leaf and could not be
happier. We have been saving for a Tesla to replace the Leaf
after lease expiration. When people hear this, their response is
often, "Tesla is a luxury car". While my first reaction is to
say that it is not, because of the many points in your article,
I agree with them wholeheartedly instead.
>
> Indeed, it will be luxury to never buy gas. It will be a
luxury to pack food, a tent, and drive to Moab without bringing
my wallet. It will be a luxury for children on the sidewalks to
not have to breath in toxic chemicals emitting from our vehicle.
It will be a luxury to never worry about a timing belt
replacement, oil changes, transmission replacement, coolant
flushes, tune-ups, exhaust leaks, etc., etc.
HTML http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-005.gif
>
> The caveat here is that when I go to DMV in Glenwood and
register the Tesla, the $4000 registration cost will certainly
feel like I'm paying for a luxury car... ;)
>
> Craig Farnum
--- End Quote ---
Why EVs Are AND Aren’t Luxury Cars
HTML http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/2thumbs.gif
HTML http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2015_02_26_why_EVs_are_and_arent_luxury_cars
--- Quote ---
> Luxury is what people experience RIGHT NOW, either sitting in
the vehicle or observing it from the roadside. Total Cost of
Ownership is an outcome of the robustness of the technologies
implemented in the vehicle. A luxury car owner doesn't care that
much about TCO, unless their eyes were bigger than their wallet,
and luxury car brands - Lexus excepted - don't try that hard to
lower TCO through super-robust design. Instead, they offer free
maintenance for the duration of the leases through which these
cars are usually acquired and, not coincidentally, the usual
duration of ownership.
>
> I and many others perceive the passing Tesla as a luxury car;
big, powerful, expensive, looks a bit like a Jaguar, which is
ostensibly the brand with the best sense of theatre that is an
essential part of the projection of luxury. Inside the car, it's
a different story. The driver's console DOES look techy, but not
necessarily practical as a driving tool. It's showy, and that's
not what a luxury car is supposed to provide its passengers -
there's an element of taste that's missing. But the car is
unquestionably comfortable, and it does give the driver and
passengers a sense of power and privilege that is what luxury
cars are supposed to do. Remember that offensive ad for the
Cadillac CTV with the overprivileged white guy strutting and
preening? Cadillac understands the luxury experience (
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/acigar.gifhttp://www.pic4ever.com/images/2z6in9g.gif)...it<br
/>just made the mistake of telling the truth.
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/128fs318181.gif
>
> The LEAF is definitely a mass-market car. The BMW i3 is not.
It's a Halo car for the brand in a completely different way than
what you'd expect. The many Toyota/Lexus hybrids are examples of
the proper balance of tech and the luxury experience...the tech
is essentially invisible. It's the rest of the experience that
delivers the luxury.
>
> Elon Musk has definitely targeted the S to the luxury crowd,
even though he's smart enough not to explicitly call it a luxury
car. That may be just an interesting side show, however, What I
find more interesting is that he's recognized the much bigger
and less regulated market for 24/7 solar local power generation
and is dedicating 30% of his Gigafactory's batter production
towards synergizing SolarWorld's domestic solar panel systems
into a distributed power grid.
>
> Electric cars, cool. A totally different way of distributing
power to the masses, world-changing. And profitable.
>
HTML http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/yayayoy/yayayoy1106/yayayoy110600019/9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg
>
> Shaun Simpkins
--- End Quote ---
#Post#: 2747--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 26, 2015, 2:07 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oYAm2NA5-X4/VO9N4KtzWII/AAAAAAABH6o/AxqpjgFS29I/s1600/02-26-2015d.jpg
The best—and worst—places to drive your electric car
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-060914180936.jpeg
By Nsikan Akpan 20 February 2015 2:45 pm 45 Comments
For those tired of winter, you’re not alone. Electric cars hate
the cold, too. Researchers have conducted the first
investigation into how electric vehicles fare in different U.S.
climates. The verdict: Electric car buyers in the chilly Midwest
and sizzling Southwest get less bang for their buck, where poor
energy efficiency and coal power plants unite to turn electric
vehicles into bigger polluters.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, began their research by pulling public data from
FleetCarma, a company that tracks vehicle performance among car
fleets operated by governments and businesses. The study looked
at 7000 all-electric Nissan Leafs across the country and how
their driving ranges varied with temperature. Cold reduces a
battery’s oomph whether it lives in your car or smart phone. “We
then combined those performances with regional reports on
weather and drivers’ habits to build a nationwide map of car
efficiency for every hour of every day within a typical year,”
says co-author and CMU mechanical engineer Jeremy Michalek.
In terms of driving range, electric cars in California and the
Deep South travel the farthest, as the balmy temperatures yield
the best energy efficiency and therefore longer trips before
they must be plugged in again. (That’s a lucky break for Golden
Staters, who also purchase the most green vehicles in the
nation.) Vehicles in cold places, in contrast, have less battery
capacity and thus shorter range. The average range of a Nissan
Leaf on the coldest day drops from 112 km in San Francisco to
less than 72 km in Minneapolis, according to the study,
published online this month in Environmental Science &
Technology.
Full article at link:
HTML http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/02/best-and-worst-places-drive-your-electric-car
#Post#: 2857--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 19, 2015, 2:36 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Electric cars are so cool they may make it colder
14:30 19 March 2015 by Aamna Mohdin
There's more than one way to cut emissions. Swapping
conventional cars for electric ones might cut emissions from
cars, but it may also help cities like Beijing beat the heat,
further lowering emissions of carbon dioxide by cutting the use
of air conditioning.
The role of electric cars in combating climate change is hotly
debated, because although they might emit less greenhouse gas
directly, they are more expensive and cause more pollution than
conventional cars during the manufacturing process. But it seems
there may be hidden benefits to them.
Electric cars emit almost 20 per cent less heat than
conventional cars, thus contributing less to the phenomenon of
cities being warmer than the surrounding areas, known as the
urban heat island effect.
If this lowers temperatures, use of air conditioning would also
drop, and so would the energy used to power it, argues a team
led by Canbing Li from Michigan State University in East
Lansing.
Cooler summer
Using summer 2012 in the Chinese capital of Beijing as an
example, the team estimate that replacing conventional cars with
electric ones could have reduced the heat by nearly 1 °C. That
in turn would result in a reduction in air conditioning use in
the city, leading to a drop of 10,686 tonnes in daily CO2
emissions.
"I was surprised by the level of decreased energy consumption of
air-conditioning," says Li.
The team says that there are several factors contributing to the
urban heat island, and not all have been addressed in the study.
This makes some people sceptical about the estimates.
"Investigating a mitigation strategy is much more complicated
than just considering the heat flux," says Ali Gholizadeh
Touchaei of the Heat Island Group at Concordia University in
Montreal, Canada. "The sophisticated relation between moisture
balance, effect of wind, and interactions of buildings and
atmosphere should be accounted for."
And Oscar van Vliet of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
in Zurich says that our heat emissions are only partly
responsible for the heat island effect, it is also down to the
city retaining that heat thanks to tarmac surfaces, which don't
cool down quickly.
Cars of the future
Regardless of how big any cooling effect might be, the climate
effects of urban transport merits further study with more
sophisticated models, say other researchers.
"It is an interesting study, as the issue of heat generated by
vehicles isn't something that has been thought about in great
detail," says Timothy Johnson of Duke University in Durham,
North Carolina.
It could become an ever bigger influence as electric cars catch
on. Johnson expects the vehicles to dominate the transportation
market in a few more decades once they overcome the technical
challenges of driving range and battery charging infrastructure.
Unlike with conventional cars, which depend on non-renewable
fuels, the disadvantages of electric cars can be overcome, says
Li. ;D
Journal reference: Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep09213
HTML http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27195-electric-cars-are-so-cool-they-may-make-it-colder.html
#Post#: 2918--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 2, 2015, 7:08 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dzn_UitUw_i-7IDsyomfrM7exd4=/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3561598/zombie-1.0.png
This guy built an all-electric '68 Mustang that'd put a Tesla
Model S in its place ;D
By Shawn Knight on April 2, 2015, 9:30 AM
Tesla’s Model S P85D has received quite a bit of attention from
both technology and automotive enthusiasts. Few cars can match
the ridiculous all-wheel-drive acceleration its powerful
electric motors are capable of generating but this story start
with an earlier Tesla model.
Muscle car enthusiast Mitch Medford caught an episode of Top
Gear years ago in which host Jeremy Clarkson raced a Tesla
Roadster against its petrol-powered cousin, the Lotus Elise. The
race wasn’t even close and soon, Medford came across a car
online known as the White Zombie.
HTML http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/white-zombie-10.4-590x415.jpg
The Zombie ;D
The Zombie was a 1972 Datsun 1200; not exactly a looker but
under the hood, it was powered by two 9-inch electric motors
that could rocket the car from 0-60 mph in just 1.8 seconds.
Medford reached out to the owner of the vehicle with a vision to
build vintage cars powered by modern electric motors.
Zombie 222 is the result of that vision, a 1968 Mustang with
dual 11-inch electric motors that put down 800 horsepower and an
insane 1,800 pound foot of torque (on a conservative setting).
This combination can propel the car from 0-60 mph in just 2.4
seconds.
The Verge has a fascinating piece on this monster, chronicling
Medford’s efforts to break the 170 mile per hour mark for an
electric vehicle in the standing mile. That’s not exactly a high
trap speed but for a car with a body built in 1968 (i.e., poor
aerodynamics), it’s incredibly ambitious.
HTML http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JrXOk2jT--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/kqksujvgx59uouri18hh.jpg
[move]Look ma! 750 HP WITHOUT fossil fuel! ;D [/move]
[center][img width=640
height=380]
HTML http://iscale.iheart.com/img/b64/JTJGJTJGbWVkaWEuaWhlYXJ0LmNvbSUyRmNjLWNvbW1vbiUyRm1saWIlMkY3MDAlMkYwNCUyRjcwMF8xNDI3OTE2ODY3LmpwZw==?ops=fit(780%2C439)[/img][/center]
[center]Dark Horse[/center]
HTML http://jalopnik.com/is-this-750-hp-electric-mustang-fastback-sacrilege-1590258114
HTML http://www.techspot.com/news/60241-guy-built-all-electric-68-mustang-thatd-put.html
#Post#: 3026--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 25, 2015, 5:33 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-24/electric-car-sales-plunge-4-year-lows
Electric Car Sales Plunge To 4 Year Lows
Tyler Durden
4/24/2015
Eddie said,
--- Quote ---
> On a related note, now would be an EXCELLENT time to dump low
fuel mileage vehicles and collect an EV, with the discounts and
tax credits mcdonalds workers could just about start getting
themselves some right thinking transport. Maybe they would
inspire the geriatric crowd even, the young inspiring the old,
that would be amazing.
>
> Get 'em while they're on sale. If you read the automotive news
over the past few years, this kind of anti eV pushback news
article starts to show up every time gas prices drop, and yet
sales of the Prius, for instance, stay reasonably good.
>
>
HTML http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2013/03/total-toyota-prius-sales-figures.html
HTML http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2013/03/total-toyota-prius-sales-figures.html
>
> I'm convinced that it will only take a little more range...if
we could get to 100 miles on an overnight charge for a plug-in
hybrid, it will turn gas only cars into museum pieces.
--- End Quote ---
[center]
BINGO!
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/19.gif[/center]
#Post#: 3070--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 2, 2015, 8:20 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Solar Power Shining Bright in Cambodia
Kristi Eaton, Contributor
April 29, 2015
SNIPPET:
--- Quote ---
> Star 8 is one of the latest solar companies to set up shop in
Cambodia, a country of eight million people, nestled between
Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. WIth its proximity to the equator
and solar irradiance, Stone said the country is attractive for
solar businesses.
>
> "The market in Cambodia is screaming out for an alternative to
grid supplied power," he said.
>
> Star 8 has created and manufactured Cambodia's first
solar-powered tuk-tuk, the ubiquitous mode of transportation
used throughout southeast Asia. A non-governmental organization
called Aziza's Place started using the country's first
solar-powered tuk-tuk for its mobile coffee cart that employs
women who previously worked on hazardous waste dumps.
>
> The idea for solar-powered tuk-tuks, Stone said, came to Star
8 founder Jacob Maimon as he was traveling to the beach in the
Cambodian coastal city of Sihanoukville. While riding in a
tuk-tuk, the driver asked him to pay half of the $2 fare along
the way so the driver could stop and buy more petrol. Maimon
eventually learned that the driver earned about $15 per day in
fares, but spent $12 of that on petrol
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183312.bmp.
>
> Another $7 per day would make a big difference, Stone said,
and thus, the idea for the solar-powered tuk-tuk was born.
HTML http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/yayayoy/yayayoy1106/yayayoy110600019/9735563-smiling-sun-showing-thumb-up.jpg<br
/>
--- End Quote ---
[center]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-020515211528.jpeg[/center]
[center]
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/looksmiley.gif
[/center]
HTML http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2015/04/solar-power-shining-bright-in-cambodia
[center]
HTML http://gas2.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tuk2-620x350.jpg[/center]
[move]The Pilippines wants 100,000 of these! :o ;D[/move]
HTML http://gas2.org/2013/08/18/the-philippines-want-to-put-100000-electric-tuk-tuks-on-the-road-by-2016/
#Post#: 3162--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 17, 2015, 11:21 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
HTML https://youtu.be/q_cRqcbXAs4
[b]The ULTIMATE EV! :o ;D[/b]
#Post#: 3393--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 2, 2015, 7:49 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Tesla tops 11,000 vehicles delivered in second quarter
Electric car maker Tesla tops 11,000 vehicles delivered in 2Q,
setting new company mark
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Electric car maker Tesla's
second-quarter deliveries surged 52 percent to set a company
record exceeding 11,000 vehicles.
The Palo Alto, California, company had surpassed 10,000 vehicles
for the first time in the first three months of the year and on
Thursday said it had broken that record, delivering 11,507
vehicles.
Tesla makes only one car, the Model S sedan, but CEO Elon Musk
said last month he expects to begin deliveries of an SUV, the
Model X, in three or four months. Tesla began 2015 with 20,000
reservations for the Model X. The company has said it plans to
deliver 55,000 Model S sedans and Model X SUVs this year.
The car maker cautioned on Thursday that record deliveries are
not an indicator of overall financial results. The company has
consistently lost money as it ramps up production. Despite
record sales in the first quarter, Tesla lost $154 million.
Musk has said the company hopes to reveal a prototype of its
next vehicle, the Model 3 sedan, in March. The new model will
cost around half the $70,000 starting price of a Model S and
will likely go on sale at the end of 2017.
Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. climbed 4 percent, or $10.87, to
close at $280.02 on Thursday. The stock is up 22 percent over
the past year
HTML http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-tops-11-000-vehicles-111629295.html
#Post#: 3405--------------------------------------------------
Re: Electric Vehicles - A GREAT time to buy an E-Golf!
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: July 5, 2015, 7:02 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[move]Euro Drops on Greferendum Early Results[/move]
Europe
00:37 06.07.2015(updated 01:35 06.07.2015)
With more than half of the ballots in the Greek referendum
counted, 61 percent of Greeks had voted against austerity
measures aimed to win the new bailout plan for country and the
euro has started to fall against dollar.
The euro began to drop when early Greek referendum results were
revealed. Almost 61 percent of voters said “no” to spending cuts
and tax hikes, while 39 percent voted to accept fresh austerity
measures, according to the Greek Interior Ministry in Athens.
The current results mean Greece may exit the Eurozone, according
to media reports.
One euro was worth $1.0963 at 1850 GMT, down 1.58 percent from
Friday night, in electronic trading before Asian markets opened.
“We’re going to see a lot of volatility and it wouldn’t surprise
me if the euro’s down 2 percent or more. Everything’s going to
get hit with the exception of safe-haven bonds,” Clem Miller, an
investment strategist at Wilmington Trust told Bloomberg.
Greece’s immediate fate depends on European Central Bank
decision to keep emergency loans flowing to Greece without the
prospect of a bailout package, Bloomberg wrote.
HTML http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150706/1024247081.html#ixzz3f40a6MVd
HTML http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150706/1024247081.html#ixzz3f40a6MVd
[center]
Volkswagen e-Golf[/center]
[center]
HTML http://betterparts.org/timages/vw-e-golf-07.jpg[/center]
[center]
[center]
HTML http://image.motortrend.com/f/wot/volkswagen-e-golf-debuting-in-frankfurt-0-62-mph-in-10-4-seconds-398827/59395657/volkswagen-e-golf-front-three-quarter-02.jpg[/center]
[center]
HTML http://www.pic4ever.com/images/looksmiley.gif
[/center]
[center]
HTML http://gas2.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DSC_2725.jpg[/center]
*****************************************************
Page 8 of 70
DIR Previous Page
DIR Next Page