Electric Vehicles

Brian Heater at Engadget reports (here) a $1,000 (USD) drop in the list price of the electric plug-in  Chevrolet Volt.  It’s roughly a two to three percent drop. What’s more likely to get sales going, economies of scale working, and prices down are large private and government fleet orders – or sharp increases in petroleum [...]

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Solar Kinetics’ Single-Element Stretched- Membrane Dish. 7 Meter diameter. Image via Wikimedia Commons. We’re trying to sort out if this is the same Solar Kinetics firm responsible for the Electric 7 electric  vehicle design. (Images of and explanation of construction process here). Following are some images of a completed Electric 7: More images of the [...]

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