electric cars
Vehicles
The World’s Most Efficient Electric Car Is Destined To Fail
6:53AM Jesus Diaz | According to Gordon Murray — the ex-McLaren’s Formula 1 designer responsible for the T.27 car — one day we all will be driving one of these vehicles. And wearing clown costumes. I don’t care that it’s the most efficient car. It won’t work. More »
Science
Battery 500 Project Wants To Make An 800km Range Battery
4:40AM Jason Chen | IBM, Berkeley and five US National Labs are collaborating in a consortium to make an electric vehicle battery that goes all the way up to 800km per charge. More »
Vehicles
7:00AM Jason Chen | The fact that the Tesla Roadster is both electric and attractive should have conditioned us to see supercars as being electric-capable, but it’s still hard to swallow. More »
Once Again, This Is An ELECTRIC Car?
7:00AM Jason Chen | The fact that the Tesla Roadster is both electric and attractive should have conditioned us to see supercars as being electric-capable, but it’s still hard to swallow. More »
Vehicles
Nissan’s Next Electric Car Will Sound Like Bladerunner
3:20AM Danny Allen | Electric cars might be beautifully quiet, but they lack the aural balls of a V8 and pose a safety risk to pedestrians. That’s why next year’s Nissan Leaf will have a whirring sound reminiscent of a Bladerunner Police spinner. More »
Design
Fit For Jeff Bridges: BMW’s Vision Efficient Dynamics Hybrid Concept
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Jalopnik is right. This see-through concept out of the BMW R&D wing would be best served with a side of Tron and a couple of light cycles. More »
Business
Tesla Motors Generates Profit For First Time Ever
4:30AM Jack Loftus | Don’t look now but the stumbling Tesla Motors, the electric car company recently on the receiving end of a $US465 million government loan, has turned a profit for the first time in its six-year history. More »
Hardware
$US2.4 Billion Grant Means Batteries Might Finally Join The 21st Century
10:40AM John Herrman | The Obama administration has dumped an electric truckload of money on car and battery companies, with hopes they’ll develop technology that’ll make plug-powered cars suitable for the mainstream. As you can imagine, this is way bigger than just cars. More »
Vehicles
Nissan’s LEAF Gets Its Tailpipe Chopped Off For Zero CO2 Emission
7:00AM Rosa Golijan | The LEAF may be compensating for the lack of a tailpipe with 30 minute “quick charges” and the ability to go for miles and miles on a single charge (100 miles (160km) to be exact), but hey, it’s eco-friendly. More »
Science
Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Could Last 3 Times Longer Than Ion
4:40AM Dan Nosowitz | Scientists at the University of Waterloo have designed a lithium-sulfur battery that, thanks to nanotechnology, is capable of 3 times the power of lithium-ion batteries with equal volume while remaining both lighter and cheaper to produce. Long-distance electric cars, anyone? More »
Business
