February 2012

Free home charging stations available in select markets

February 15, 2012
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ChargePoint America offers free equipment ChargePoint America, an electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure development program, is offering free 240-volt Level 2 charging equipment for individuals living in any of their service areas. Those areas include Austin, Boston, Bellevue, WA, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Southern Michigan, and Washington, DC. In exchange […]

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LEAF rentals to debut in London and Paris

February 14, 2012

Rental market provides potential buyers a longer term look Nissan just announced a partnership with Europcar, one of the leaders in the rental car arena in Europe with a global presence in 150 countries, to make the Nissan LEAF available in Paris and London for a three month trial. This initial period is a trial […]

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Tesla’s Model X debuted

February 11, 2012

Tesla’s all wheel drive electric crossover Tesla revealed the all new rear-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive Model X electric crossover to the public at a customer event held at their Los Angeles Design and Engineering Center. Bold not only for its means of propulsion, but also its gullwing-style rear doors, Model X is based on the Tesla […]

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The EV wireless highway

February 9, 2012

Stanford University designs high efficiency wireless charging system Just yesterday we wrote about inductive charging systems for residential use. Then we found an article reporting on a Stanford University research project with the potential of creating an electric highway. This electric highway could be developed with the intent of charging electric vehicles (EVs) as they […]

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Will wireless EV charging be the answer?

February 8, 2012

Is there an advantage to wireless charging? Battery powered devices – be they cell phones, laptops, or electric cars – need to be recharged. The most common way to recharge depleted batteries is to plug a charger into the wall outlet, plug the other end of the cord into the device, and let the electrons […]

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EV charging infrastructure buildout continues

February 6, 2012

240 volt charge stations announced almost daily We have several alerts that we track regarding the Nissan LEAF and electric vehicles (EVs) in general, just to try to keep pace with what is going on in the industry. One thing that strikes us is the ongoing and continued announcements of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) […]

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Gas price goes up faster than electricity rates

February 4, 2012
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Price history ignored by anti-EV crowd One undeniable fact that is left undiscussed by the anti-electric vehicle (EV) crowd is the rate of change in the price of gasoline versus the rate of change in the price of electricity. We have discussed this previously, but it has been quite some time and the information was […]

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Range remaining indicator

February 3, 2012

How much do they fluctuate in internal combustion engine vehicles? Today we were driving our internal combustion engine (ICE) powered vehicle when we noticed the range remaining indicator blinking at us. Having seen this many times before we were not concerned at all because we know that there is a significant reserve of gasoline in […]

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January 2012 Nissan LEAF sales fall

February 1, 2012
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January sales fall to 676 from 954 in December The Nissan Division of Nissan Corporation had a good January 2012 as sales overall improved 12.5% over January 2011 sales numbers. This compared favorably with Japan’s two other main producers – Toyota gained 9.0% and Honda gained 9.3% year over year. Still, LEAF sales fell from […]

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