Archive for the ‘EV News’ Category

The Fisker Surf concept EV will be revealed at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show on Tuesday September 13, 2011. Rumors are that the Fisker Surf will be an electric 2-door sport wagon with a range extending Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). In addition to having two 150 kW electric motors, a turbocharged 2.0-liter I-4 and a lithium-ion battery. This would give the Fisker Surf battery electric ...

Toyota RAV4 EV is the result of a Toyota-Tesla Motors joint venture and is the 2nd generation fully electric version of the RAV4 (due to be released in 2012). The electric SUV made its debut at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show and will be powered by a Tesla electric powertrain. ...

Ontario Canada will be the new manufacturing home of the Toyota & Tesla electric RAV4 sport utility vehicle and gets 439 million USD EV R&D investment from Magna International, which is a major parts supplier for companies like GM, Ford and Chrysler. Magna's investment will create more than 700 jobs and maintain about 1,300 at Magna’s facilities throughout Canada. ...

Climate Change Myth #014: "The carbon creating activities of humans add up to almost nothing compared to how much carbon a volcano releases into the atmosphere" Volcanoes release signifiant amounts of carbon more than 130 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year according to USGS (see: Volcanic Gases ...

Climate Change Myth #013: "Carbon dioxide is not some type of nasty pollution, plants need it grow and the percentage in the atmosphere changes all the time due to natural processes that aren't caused by the actions of man." CO2 by itself is not itself a pollutant though a 10% ...

Climate Change Myth #012: "Global temperatures change quite a bit as the planet goes into and out of ice ages, what we are currently seeing is normal." True enough there have been 7 ice age cycles in the last 650,000 years, with the last one ending a mere 7000 years ago, so ...

Climate Change Myth #011: "What's the big deal so the ocean has risen a few centimeters, it won't affect anything" In the last 100 years the sea levels have risen about 1.7 mm per year and the rate has been increasing. Even a 1/3 of an inch (1 cm) increase can cause 3.2 ...