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An irrelevant, sometimes thoughtful stream of conciousness from Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -- AKA (The original) Aminorjourney

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Transport Evolved Tips: Living With a Limited-Range Electric Car

Transport Evolved Tips: Living With a Limited-Range Electric Car

As high initial sales for the Chevrolet Bolt EV (the world’s first mass-produced electric car with a range-per charge in excess of 200 miles per charge on the EPA test cycle and an entry-level price tag of under $35,000 before incentives) show, there’s a significant demand for an affordable electric car that can travel more than 200 miles per charge.

There’s plenty of life in used, limited-range…

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In Geneva, nanoFlowcell Set To Debut 186 Mph, 48-Volt Flowcelll Prototype EV Called The QUANT 48VOLT

In Geneva, nanoFlowcell Set To Debut 186 Mph, 48-Volt Flowcelll Prototype EV Called The QUANT 48VOLT

Today, there are two main ways to store the energy needed to power an electric car down the road: a large electrochemical battery pack which turns stored chemical energy into electrical power; or a hydrogen fuel cell system in which compressed hydrogen is combined with oxygen from the outside air inside a special fuel cell stack to produce water, heat and electricity.

But as one European…

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Audi tells Dealers to back EVs, i3 + Model S Crash tests, Mirai SuperBowl Ad: - T.E.N. Future Car News 2/3/17

Audi tells Dealers to back EVs, i3 + Model S Crash tests, Mirai SuperBowl Ad: – T.E.N. Future Car News 2/3/17

Welcome to T.E.N! Short for Transport Evolved News, T.E.N. is recorded every Friday to help your weekend get off to a flying start by making sure you haven’t missed the big future transport news stories of the week.

Weekly show about future cars and future car technology.  This week news about: Audi tells its dealers to get with the electric car program; Elon Musk Picks up Flak for Being on…

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Transport Evolved Tech Primer: LEAF Spy App for Android and iOS Helps You See Under The Virtual Hood of Your Nissan LEAF (Video)

Transport Evolved Tech Primer: LEAF Spy App for Android and iOS Helps You See Under The Virtual Hood of Your Nissan LEAF (Video)

A little over twenty years ago, owning an electric car meant that you had to be at least a little nerdy when it came to computers, battery packs, and basic electronics. At least, you had to be if you wanted to make sure your car had as long and as a healthy existence as possible.

That’s because before the days of production electric cars, before the days even of revolutionary vehicles like the GM…

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GM, Honda Announce Plans for Joint Hydrogen Fuel Cell Factory Inside GM's Brownstone Battery Facility

GM, Honda Announce Plans for Joint Hydrogen Fuel Cell Factory Inside GM’s Brownstone Battery Facility

Four years after General Motors and Honda signed a partnership agreement in which they would work together to research and design affordable hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen storage systems for use in future production vehicles, the two automakers have announced a new joint manufacturing venture that will bring those researched fuel cell systems to commercial reality.

Called Fuel Cell System…

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Just For Cities? Acciona Proves Electric Car Stereotypes Wrong By Completing Dakar Rally -- The World's Most Demanding Race

Just For Cities? Acciona Proves Electric Car Stereotypes Wrong By Completing Dakar Rally — The World’s Most Demanding Race

If you own an electric car and venture too far out of the urban jungle (even in the age of the Tesla Model S and its fantastic Supercharger network) you’ll encounter a large number of people willing to scorn at your vehicle choice.

Without pulling on too many stereotypes, those critiquing your zero tailpipe emission ride will likely scoff at its physical form, make some judgement about ‘limited…

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Toyota, BMW, Daimler, Honda, and Hyundai Join 8 Other Fuel, Infrastructure Companies In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Push

Toyota, BMW, Daimler, Honda, and Hyundai Join 8 Other Fuel, Infrastructure Companies In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Push

Despite being “just around the corner” for the past thirty years or more, there’s been a real push in recent years by automakers like Toyota, Honda and Hyundai to promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as being a more practical alternative to battery electric vehicles. Aided by a number of different filling station companies, these automakers have pushed the idea that electric vehicles aren’t…

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Ahead of Launch for Next-Generation Nissan LEAF, Nissan to Test Autonomous LEAFs on London's Busy Streets

Ahead of Launch for Next-Generation Nissan LEAF, Nissan to Test Autonomous LEAFs on London’s Busy Streets

Back at the start of the month, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn gave a keynote presentation at CES 2017 during which he previewed Nissan’s latest autonomous vehicle technology — Seamless Autonomous Mobility (SAM). Developed in collaboration with NASA, SAM is designed to accelerate the mass market adoptability of autonomous vehicles by integrating advanced artificial intelligence with a remote…

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As Volkswagen Finally Pleads Guilty In Dieselgate Scandal, FCA Now in EPA's Crosshairs For The Same Crime

As Volkswagen Finally Pleads Guilty In Dieselgate Scandal, FCA Now in EPA’s Crosshairs For The Same Crime

Yesterday, German automaker Volkswagen finally plead guilty of trying to cheat in U.S. Federal emissions tests by building and selling certain model-year diesel-engined vehicles with a so-called ‘defeat devices’ fitted in them, a please which will see it pay the U.S. Federal Government more than $4.3 billion in penalties.

Less than 24 hours later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) —…

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Want Unlimited, Free Supercharging From Tesla? Buy a Used Model S, Model X Made Before 1/14/17

Want Unlimited, Free Supercharging From Tesla? Buy a Used Model S, Model X Made Before 1/14/17

From the moment Tesla launched the Model S electric car back in 2012 to the present time, anyone buying a (Supercharger-equipped) Tesla Model S or Model X has been able to look forward to free, unlimited charging at Tesla’s global network of Supercharger stations.

After January 15, all new Tesla cars will have limits placed on their free supercharging.

Crisscrossing North America, Europe and most…

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Thought of the Day: Does Tesla Have a Reliability Problem?

Thought of the Day: Does Tesla Have a Reliability Problem?

Welcome to Thought of the Day! Join Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield as she poses a question for you all to think about and answer.

Today, we’re asking if (following the long list of problems that some Tesla customers are having with their cars) Tesla has a quality control problem that will need to be addressed before Tesla can become a mainstream automaker.

Moreover, we’re asking if regular car customers…

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No, Nissan Has Not Unveiled A New Nissan LEAF -- But Here's What We Know About It So Far

No, Nissan Has Not Unveiled A New Nissan LEAF — But Here’s What We Know About It So Far

Last Thursday during CES 2017, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn took to the stage at the Westgate Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada to give Nissan’s first ever CES keynote presentation. During it, a media presentation before the keynote, and a media Q&A session which occurred afterwards, he detailed some of Nissan’s future plans, which included advancements in its autonomous driving technology, connected car…

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Thought of the Day: Do We Really Need Cars That Know Everything About Us?

Thought of the Day: Do We Really Need Cars That Know Everything About Us?

Welcome to Thought of the Day! Join Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield as she poses a question for you all to think about and answer.

Today, following the first two days of CES, we’re asking if automakers should really be focusing on cars that are fully customizable and know everything about us — or if they should be focusing on more important things like cleaner, greener, drivetrains?

Do millennials really…

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With The Air Of A Trump Campaign Event, Faraday Future Reveals FF91 "Tesla Beater" Four-Seat Electric Car in Las Vegas

With The Air Of A Trump Campaign Event, Faraday Future Reveals FF91 “Tesla Beater” Four-Seat Electric Car in Las Vegas

This time last year at CES 2016, California startup Faraday Future held its inaugural reveal event inside an erected marquee on an empty lot a stone’s throw from the main show floor. Amidst great pomp and circumstance — and after a 90-minute presentation in which Faraday Future executives managed to tell us little about the company’s market strategy or goals for the future or what made it…

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Tesla Motors Produces 83,992 Electric Cars In 2016 - But Misses Yearly Delivery Target By 3,770 Units

Tesla Motors Produces 83,992 Electric Cars In 2016 – But Misses Yearly Delivery Target By 3,770 Units

At one point during 2016, it was looking extremely unlikely that California automaker Tesla Motors would manage to meet the lofty 80-90,000 vehicle production and delivery goal for 2016 set by Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the start of 2016. Teething problems associated with initial production of the Tesla Model X electric SUV slowed Tesla’s planned production ram during the first half of the year,…

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Ford Announces 13 'Electrified' Models, Inc. Hybrid Mustang, Hybrid F150 Pickup, 300-Mile Electric SUV

Ford Announces 13 ‘Electrified’ Models, Inc. Hybrid Mustang, Hybrid F150 Pickup, 300-Mile Electric SUV

Since vocal climate change skeptic and friend of the oil industry Donald J Trump won the 2016 U.S. Presidential election back in November, there’s been something of a grey cloud hanging over much of the electric vehicle world. With similar-minded individuals appointed to control the EPA and DoE — two of the government agencies we can thank for the progress electric vehicles have made in recent…

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As The New Year Rolls In, Tesla Delays Changes To Supercharger Policy And Price Increases For UK Customers

As The New Year Rolls In, Tesla Delays Changes To Supercharger Policy And Price Increases For UK Customers

It may only be the second day of 2017 (and the last day of the Holiday season thanks to the fact that New Year fell on a weekend), but that hasn’t stopped California automaker Tesla Motors from surprising its fans and customers by delaying two changes that were due to come into effect at the close of last year.

Tesla is delaying the change to its Supercharger access policy by two weeks.

The…

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