“Drinkable battery acid? Yes, it’s true. In the tough race to develop the world’s best electric-car battery, Chinese billionaire Wang Chuanfu, founder of the automaker BYD, is not above a little showmanship,” begins an interesting article at Newsweek.com.
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Think, self-described as “the world’s leading dedicated electric vehicle manufacturer,” has announced the production of the 2,500th unit of the Think City “pure electric vehicle designed for urban use.”
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Casting it as the “world’s first mass-produced, plug-in electric vehicle with a range-extending onboard engine,” GM formally launched the five-door, four-passenger Chevrolet Volt today. It’s “designed to provide the benefits of an electric vehicle without the range limitations associated with other electric vehicles in the market,” says GM. In related news, however, the Web is abuzz with assertions that the Volt actually is a PHEV (plug-in hybrid EV), not an ER-EV (extended-range EV).
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“Although electric cars aren’t exactly new, the first ones having been built in the late 1800s, they’ve taken a while to catch on,” suggests Rosana Francescato in an article at TheEnergyCollective.
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A conference held last year to assess the state of the U.S. transportation system has just published a 92-page report detailing its findings. Despite the fact that transportation systems are the “backbone of America” and keep it “strong and moving,” the bipartisan report concludes, “we have not been taking good care of this resource.”
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