We recently spotted an electric car video report from Aaron Rockett circulating the web. In the video, Rockett documents a fantastic electric car vending machine from Hangzhou, China, where Kandi Technologies Group opened their first automated EV CarShare garage in Hangzhou last year. The car-sharing project is based on the city’s successful bike share program - the largest of … [Read more...]
Quick links: 3 stories about electric cars
Hybrid car challenge in UAE – if you’ve ever visited the UAE, you know people drive like crazy there. Now they'll drive like crazy in hybrids. Readers talk up Smart cars – and if you’ve visited Europe, you’ve undoubtedly seen a lot of electric cars from Smart. Their whole lineup is interesting. How much money would you save by solar charging an electric car? (The quick … [Read more...]
The price of gas in Pakistan
The other day The Himalayan printed the interesting headline “Hybrid cars fail to ease Pakistan's gas woes even as taxes are lowered.” I puzzled over this one as their site loaded - did it mean that people drove their hybrids so much that any savings in fuel were then made negligible through an increase in use? Nope. Sometimes the simple explanations fly right over my head. … [Read more...]
NASA’s 2014 meteor shower schedule
Shortly before the new year, NASA released a list of the most active and easily observed meteor showers for 2014. The Quadrantids have already arrived, but there's still plenty to see: the Lyrids and the Eta Aquariids in April-May, the Southern Delta Aquariids in July-August, and of course our old friends the Geminids that Les wrote about in 2012. The Geminids are typically … [Read more...]
Bornay Wind Turbines
Bornay has over forty years experience, having started with wind generators in 1970. They will proudly tell you they have installed their wind turbine technology in more than 50 countries as well as Antarctica. Bornay is based in Castalla, Spain, and they make high quality wind turbines that get good ratings and reviews. Bornay currently produces five small-scale models: the … [Read more...]
Silentwind Small Wind Turbines
Silentwind is a Portuguese company with German management that was established in 1993. They have 30 years experience in the field, and their first work focused on creating low noise rotor blades. If you've heard of people happily replacing their OEM or other noisy blades, they probably bought Air-X blades from Silentwind. Because of Silentwind's success with their quiet wind … [Read more...]
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