Electric Car Blogging

It’s a common question when projecting the impact of electric vehicles: can today’s creaky power grid handle millions of juice-hungry car batteries?

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Thursday said it has developed a smart charger controller designed specifically for charging cars at off-peak times to get the …
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Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk has a friend in David Letterman.

Musk, the CEO and product architect of electric car maker Tesla Motors, was a guest on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Wednesday night. Also making an appearance on the set was the prototype Model S electric sedan, which made …
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Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels
(Credit: City of Seattle)
The City of Seattle has partnered with Nissan North America to promote the development of an electric vehicle charging network in anticipation of Nissan’s release of its highway-legal EV, Renault-Nissan Alliance and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced Tuesday.
Nissan’s commercially …
Originally posted at Planetary Gear
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The Tesla Roadster.
(Credit: Tesla Motors)
If you love Paris and the environment, and you have a boatload of money, this could be your dream home.
A real-estate company called Welcome in France is offering a free Tesla Roadster with every purchase of one of its homes in a new …
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A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary.

Home Green Home: Affordable Efficiency? – The New York TimesInteresting development in western Mass. to make superefficient and affordable homes. Heavy use of solar energy, of course, but here’s the best part: because the homes are so well insulated, they

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