Electric

The problem of recycling automotive batteries

Auto Evolution, Jun 18 2012 - If things aren’t set in motion ahead of time, we may find ourselves knee-deep in lithium-ion battery sludge.

Cleaner Fuels, Cleaner Cars

New York Times, Apr 4 2012 - In late December, the Environmental Protection Agency drafted a set of rules that would force petroleum refiners to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline by two-thirds.

US Automotive Industry to Become Electric Vehicle Pioneer by 2022

Business Insider, Mar 15 2012 - The ambitious program is designed to collaboratively engage entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists in developing more affordable and convenient electric vehicles within the next ten years.

Pike Research forecasts automotive Li-ion battery prices to drop by more than 1/3 by 2017

Green Car Congress, Mar 12 2012 - According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall.

Which comes first: the smart grid or the electric car?

IBM, March 2012 - A quick look at some of the needs, challenges, opportunities and ideas that are coming together to make electric cars a realilty.

Electric vehicles: This time it really is different

CNET News, Feb 6 2012 - Electric vehicles have floundered into obscurity more than once in U.S. history and now they're staging yet another comeback.

Revenge of the Electric Car (DVD Review)

Home Media Magazine, Jan 30 2012 - Director/co-writer Chris Paine’s sequel to his 2006 film Who Killed the Electric Car?

California Rules

haulingdepot.com, Jan 2012 - Two new California rules issued by the state's Air Resources Board: one calls for 75 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides and other smog-forming emissions from new vehicles by 2025; and the other says that by 2025 one of seven new vehicles on Californ

Revenge of the petrolheads

The Economist, Dec 10 2011 - Fossil-fuel cars are getting much cleaner, making life hard for green ones. http://www.economist.com/node/21541443

New Evidence That Sunlight Is Electric

Popular Science, Dec 1929 - New proof that sunlight is an electrical phenomenon comes as a result of recently announced determinations of the speed of electromagnetic waves and of the speed of light.