Posts Tagged ‘Matt_Kelly’
Plug In 2009: Rapid Electric Vehicles REV’s up Fleet Sales
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, event
During Plug In 2009 in Long Beach Calif., I was introduced to the REV™ 300 ACX electric vehicle, an OEM Ford Escape vehicle with its internal combustion engine and related drive and fuel components completely removed.
Based in Vancouver, BC, REV stands for Rapid Electric Vehicles, and founder/CEO Jay Giraud states there is no re-engineering performed [...]
Tags: auto, battery, car, Clean Energy, electric car, EV, hybrid, Lithium-Ion, Matt_Kelly, PHEV, plug-in, REV
2009 Hybridfest Green Drive Expo: Automation Tech
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, event
During Hybridfest Green Drive Expo in Madison, Wisc., I met Jack Chen of Automation Tech, Inc. Located in Warren, Mich., Automation Tech is the exclusive US distributor of the Enginer Prius PHEV conversion kit with Lithium Phosphate battery, manufactured in Shanghai, China.
As exclusive distributors, Jack’s mission is to bring affordable hybrid conversion kits to the [...]
Tags: auto, battery, car, EV, Hybridfest, Matt_Kelly, PHEV, plug-in, Prius
Hybridfest: Green Drive Expo - Ford’s Praveen Cherian
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, event, hybrid
Hybridfest Green Drive Expo has come and gone for another year in Madison, Wisc, but the feel-good aura remains.
Special thanks to Ford Motor Company for supporting the event as Ruby Sponsor.
While at the expo, I had the good fortune to meet Praveen Cherian, Hybrid Team Leader on the Ford Fusion Hybrid, who gave me a [...]
Tags: Ford, fusion, GreenDriveExpo, hybrid, Hybridfest, Madison, Matt_Kelly, Praveen_Cherian, regenerative_braking
Citroen’s new C1 Ev’ie
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation
The first all-electric family car went on sale in the United Kingdom recently.
Launched by Citroen and called the C1 ev’ie, the lithium ion battery-powered, all-electric mini car is classified as a car, unlike the Indian-built Reva G-Wiz, which had to be registered as a quadricycle.
It features a 30kw electric motor, is powered by 25 li-ion [...]
Tags: auto, battery, car, Citroen, energy, environment, EV, Evie, fuel, Green_Motion, G_Wiz, Li_ion, Matt_Kelly, Reva
Chocolate as a fuel?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, biofuel, concept
145 mph on chocolate?
My question is that milk or dark chocolate?
London scientists just unveiled what they hope will be one of the world’s fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers.
The car “fuel” is vegetable oils and chocolate waste that has been turned into biofuel. The steering wheel [...]
Tags: auto, biofuel, cars, chocolate, cool, energy, environment, fast, fuel, Matt_Kelly, racing, speed, transportation, Warwick
Zipcar launches FastFleet, partners with ZimRide
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, ride sharing
Have you heard of Zipcar?
Begun in Cambridge, Massachusetts nearly a decade ago, the startup pioneers the European idea of car-sharing here in the U.S.
Its concept is simple: offer self-service vehicles by the hour or day to city residents and businesses looking for an alternative to the high costs and hassles of owning a car in [...]
Tags: Adrian_Fenty, auto, car, car_sharing, Clean Energy, energy, environment, FastFleet, fleet, FlexCar, Matt_Kelly, ride_sharing, Stamford_University, Sustainability, Zimride, Zipcar
Will Bike Sharing come to LA?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation
Paris. Vienna. Rome. Stockholm. Washington, DC. What do they all have in common?
Each city has a successful public bike-sharing program that’s helping pave the way to a greener urban environment, one city at a time.
The bike-sharing concept began in Paris in July of 2007 and allows an individual to check out a bicycle from a [...]
Tags: alternative_transportation, bicycling, bike, bike_sharing, Bixi, Matt_Kelly, MetroBike, Paul_DeMaio, RFID, Samba, SmartBike
2,757 miles per gallon?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Sound impossible? Not if you’re an Eco Marathoner.
Congratulations go out to the student-led Alerion Supermileage team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada for achieving the fuel milestone and winning the Grand Prize during the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition pitting student-built, fuel-efficient prototype vehicle achieves against each other to travel the farthest distance using [...]
Tags: Alerion, biomass, car, concept, cool, diesel, eco, fuel, fuel_cell, hydrogen, Laval, LPG, marathon, Matt_Kelly, mpg, prototype, Purdue, Shell, solar, UCLA
Could Southern California become the high-speed rail capital of the world?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
As high-speed rail emerges as a key element of President Obama’s efforts to remake the nation’s transportation infrastructure, one question emerges: could Southern California become the high-speed rail capital of the world?
After all, Silicon Valley is the high-tech capital of the world, so why not?
The president has long favored expanding passenger rail service and his [...]
Tags: Amtrak, high_speed_rail, maglev, Matt_Kelly, Prop1A, stimulus, transportation