Posts Tagged ‘stimulus’
Pursu-ing Mobility, 3-wheels at a time
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation
This past week while chatting with The Courage Group’s urban planner Ray Gordon, who writes a blog Courageous Futures, I had the good fortune to meet Howard Levine, founder and COO of Persu Mobility. Formerly Venture Vehicles, the company is working on producing a PHEV, similar to the U.K.’s Carver, yet using a totally new [...]
Tags: 3_Wheeler, battery, Carver, cool, Courageous, drag_coefficient, DVC, Dynamic_Vehicle_Control, EV, HOV, Howard_Levine, motorcycle, mpg, mph, Persu, PHEV, Ray_Gordon, speed, stimulus, ULV, Venture_Vehicles
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