Electric Car Blogging

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, India, Tata

Tata Motors has confirmed that the rumors of an all-electric Tata Ace and the all-electric Tata Indica are true. In an unveiling in India this past week, the company took the wraps off of two lithium-ion battery-powered EV prototypes based on the Ace work truck and the Indica sedan (pictured). As we heard earlier this year, the Indica EV will first be sold in the Norweigian market next year because the Scandanavian country “has the necessary infrastructure in place to run electric cars which India lacks,” as Tata Motors President Ravi Kant put it. Indians will get their own chance to buy the car in about 24 months. According to the Business-Standard, the all-electric Indica has two battery packs which can charge in eight hour and go around 110-120 miles on a charge.

Now, about an electric Nano…

[Source: Business-Standard]

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Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors, Green Daily, USA

click above for more of Eberhard and his Tesla Roadster

By describing the cost to charge an electric vehicle as “squishy,” Martin Eberhard begins a post on his Tesla Founders Blog on the right foot. Seriously. That’s because it’s a very difficult question to answer and it totally depends on where you live, what company your power is coming from and when you charge it. There are other factors too, such as what, if any, alternative sources you have and how much power you usually use on an average day. To help explain all of these little details, Eberhard has made a spreadsheet based on Northern California’s rates from Pacific Gas and Electric.

After doing all the math, Martin figures that it costs him 3.6 cents per mile to run his Roadster. That’s more than he initially figured but still just a small fraction of what it would cost to run on gas. For instance, at .00 a gallon, a car that gets over 40 miles per gallon would still cost double per mile to operate. Of course, YMMV. To help figure it all out, Martin suggests that you create your own spreadsheet and share it with the rest of the class.

[Source: Tesla Founders Blog]

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