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Tesla Motors - Leadership It seems TM has yet to receive any money from the DOE. In other news, the company has delivered 700 Roadsters.

I found interesting this comparison between Dutch and American road safety provisions during the last thirty years. Using a different road design philosophy, the Netherlands cut its deaths to 800 from 3,200, while the U.S. went to 37,000 from 44,000. Both drops are admirable, but the Dutch...

There's an interesting documentary at 8:00 PM tonight on PBS about the future of transportation infrastructure in the U.S. Miles O'Brien looks at three cities -- Denver, Portland, and NYC -- with different strategies for dealing with population growth. In addition to the broadcast, the...

This rumor says Tesla is looking into a disused Boeing facility in Long Beach: Tesla Motors buys Boeing Long Beach building? | Discounttimberlands

Does this race through Paris streets seem faked? If not, it's pretty insane driving. YouTube - Rendezvous in paris From the YouTube comments: "On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a...

I sometimes find myself trying to summarize and simplify the problems with hydrogen, only to find my listener's patience wear thin with all the technicalities. As such, I'd like to find and focus on one single, nearly insurmountable problem with hydrogen. For the moment, I've been using its...

Bill requiring minimum auto sound levels expected - AutoWeek Magazine I find silly the idea that cars need a minimum sound level. To be sure, noise is helpful for the blind, and I have (stupidly) come to rely on it when crossing a street, but I've also been surprised many times by...

I thought I had hear all the ideas out there on recharging while driving, but here's something entirely new (from the Tesla Motors latest blog post): I suppose we might think up a few more in the same vein: 1) Small children in car seats, gesticulating and foot-tapping passengers -- you might...

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Although new user "yy17616433" has only a couple of posts, there seems to be a pattern developing: identical text as a response to threads, along with several links to a Manga site. Could this user be a spambot?

A few tidbits on Toyota's lithium ion battery plans from today's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/business/26toyota.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

Probably nothing new here, but in talking with a couple of the guys at the Yokohama/Tesla booth, with EP6 in the background... 1) L.A. store is supposed to open in March or April; 2) A 7-inch SatNav unit is being considered, but not panel mount, so it won't need to be crash tested...

It was such a surprise for me to see a few actual, operating, fully-electric G-Wiz cars on the streets of London this past week. To be sure, I see the odd EV here in L.A., but they're very rare. The G-Wiz, by contrast, was quite visible, including this one parked on the street...

This article about Porsche's expected difficulty in meeting very strict emission control standards brings up a thought that I've been chewing on for awhile: it doesn't seem too far a stretch to envision a future where gasoline (or perhaps just gasoline cars) suffers the same fate as cigarettes...

Salt water as fuel? Erie man hopes so It sounds weird, but this guy claims to be able to burn salt water so long as it's exposed to radio frequencies. As always, the big question is efficiency.

It hired Maxwell to design new ultracaps for its "Hybrid Drive Train Program." Maxwell Technologies to Design and Produce Ultracapacitors for Advanced Engineering Hybrid Drive Train Program

I don't know if this is old news, but this series of "50 Worst Cars" photos popped up today: The 50 Worst Cars of All Time - TIME The EV1 made the list. Otherwise, talk about punishment cars!

Reading about last month's White Zombie vs. Mazda drag race, I noticed that the Zombie edged out the Mazda by a small margin, although the Mazda blew some sort of engine component at the end. This failure evidently happened after the finish line, and so didn't mean that the Mazda would have...

I was considering where I might site chargers with that $500K the State of California gave Tesla Motors. I think I'd (do the obvious and) focus on the population centers and the connections between them. As such, I'd probably look at the the coastal cities (San Diego, metro LA, Santa...

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto083120071725591281 EDF is France's national electric company. Toyota is evidently working with EDF to develop charging stations -- and presumably some sorts of standards -- for its upcoming plug-in hybrids. It seems that this arrangement...

From David Pogue's (NYT Technology columnist) Thursday email:

Every long tailpipe argument I've heard revolves around the idea that electrical generation for EVs emits pollution, perhaps nearly as much as burning gasoline. These arguments may ignore the amount of electricity that the production of gasoline itself requires. I don't know. I've yet to see a...

I'm wondering whether it would be useful to have a FAQ section. There seem to be a number of common questions that it might be nice to have addressed in a thread each. In the Tesla Motor blogs, where some questions seem to come up frequently, having a single link to answers might drive more...

http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/nauman/2007/08/11/tesla-to-replace-eberhard-as-ceo/ To be replaced by Flextronics' Michael Marks. Maybe we'll get a better sense why tomorrow...