Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, has come up with a strategy for building infrastructure that he believes will solve the problem of range. Mr. Agassi's strategy is one that has been discussed here in the past. Better Place ...
The Wall Street Journal reported today that BYD plans to offer its most advanced electric car, the e6 model, in the United States in 2010 which is a year ahead of the company's prior plans. BYD's e6 sedan has been ...
General Motors is claiming that the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle can be expected to achieve 230 miles per gallon when used mostly in city traffic. The Volt is a hybrid vehicle that has a 40 mile range on electric power ...
Anyone who has been paying attention to discussions related to energy policy over the past few years has been hearing about a new "smart grid" that has the potential to play a major role in meeting the energy requirements of ...
Read this article for more information on BYD's revolutionary e6 electric car including a video of one of BYD's engineers demonstrating the car's features ...
Most of the excitement related to BYD has centered on the remarkable advances the company has made in applying its proprietary battery technology to electric vehicles such as the e6 model which I wrote about earlier this month. BYD's innovations ...
I found an interesting video interview with Bill Ford that is applicable to recent articles on this site regarding electric vehicle technologies. Ever since Berkshire Hathaway announced its investment in BYD, I have tried to follow developments in the industry ...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Better Place Inc. has demonstrated its battery exchange technology for the first time in Yokohama, Japan. The company has posted a video demonstration of the process in which a specially designed electric car has ...
I have been reading more on BYD's history and the path taken by Wang Chuanfu over the past several years. Perhaps the most revealing story I have found was published in the Financial Times in November. The FT article goes ...
This three part video is the most extensive I have seen that covers BYD which I described in an article earlier this week. It is well worth taking the fifteen to twenty minutes to view the three part video and ...
Last month, I wrote about the increased interest in electric car technology that seems to be persisting despite steep declines in the price of oil and gasoline since last summer. I have been skeptical about prospects for electric vehicles for ...
Despite gasoline prices that have fallen precipitously since the record high levels of mid 2008, it appears that interest in electric cars is still alive and well. In fact, efforts to come up with viable technologies could be accelerating. This ...