Electric Vehicle Association of Alberta – Renewable
– Meet the Electric Vehicle Association of Alberta. Well, like, two of them. There’s a lot more. Electric vehicle ownership isn’t mainstream, yet. Not anywhere, really, and not here in Edmonton, Alberta. But the Electric Vehicle Association of Alberta, they have done the road trips, they have faced the Alberta weather, they are convinced that […]
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Shai Agassi: A new ecosystem for electric cars
So how would you run a whole country without oil? That’s the question that sort of hit me in the middle of a Davos afternoon about four years ago. It never left my brain. And I started playing with it more like a puzzle. The original thought I had: this must be ethanol. So I […]
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Future of electric cars and energy management
We’re talking about electric vehicles and the tie to the smart grid and management of energy in the future at the home level as well as the international level. The issue of operating cost, of course, generally we’re looking at a much lower cost for either a plug-in hybrid vehicle or an electric vehicle, because […]
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Vehicle-to-Grid technology (V2G) turns Nissan electric cars into energy hubs
Vehicle-to-Grid technology will put energy management back in the hands of the people by turning their Nissan electric vehicles into mobile energy hubs. Using the innovative Vehicle-to-Grid technology developed in partnership with ENEL, drivers can store electricity in their vehicle’s battery and return it back to the grid when needed. Imagine the home of the […]
Read MoreCaught Speeding: The Rise of Electric Vehicles & the Impact to the Energy Sector
It’s difficult to imagine a world without gas stations and without gas-powered vehicles, but that’s about to change. Right now, we are cognitively and physically anchored to oil. We drive home from work; we fuel up our cars at a gas station. It’s part of our normal life and 44% of oil consumption is to […]
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How an automobile engine works
From this diagram we are going to learn how, basically, an automobile engine works. This is a cylinder. This is basically one cylinder that we have. And these are the walls of the cylinder, and this is the piston that we have. And this piston is what moves up and down. And we have two […]
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Duke Electric Vehicles Team Breaks Guinness World Record for Fuel Efficiency
What if a car could drive anywhere on Earth on the equivalent of one gallon of gas? That’s 14,500 miles per gallon. Students on the Duke Electric Vehicles Team at the Pratt School of Engineering have built that car, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. They call him Maxwell. And guess what? Maxwell and the […]
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How Supercapacitors Could Make Batteries a Thing of the Past
Researchers recently and quite accidentally discovered something that could change the whole electric car ballgame. If their predictions are accurate, we could one day live in a world where cars can be fully charged in minutes instead of hours, and their power storage units would last decades instead of years. What is this tantalizing breakthrough […]
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