Battery Vehicle Society

Lithium Iron Phosohate. I hope they're not raising hopes too high.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7938001.stm

Curious

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... dy-borwick

That idiot Johnson on the Tesla:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... lanet.html

I don't think that this has been posted here before. The article says 2 companies look set to provide cars: The Dassault group and Bolloré

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/m ... -way-17274

Story at Daily Mail 04/03/09

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/motoring/art ... ustry.html

It wouldn't surprise me if this amounts to the same thing Renault mention.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... article.do

I was killing time in WH Smiths yesterday and picked up a copy of 'Retro Cars' magazine (March edition?) which has a feature on a chap in Oregon City who's converted a 1959 Fiat 600 to battery power. Nice to see this in a mainstream magazine full of all sorts of cool cars. Guy's name ins Mark Mongil...

One - the only that I can think of - instance of an electric car featuring in a book is Tim Moore's "Do Not Pass Go" where in order to get 'Free Parking" as instructed by the Monopoly Board he borrows an electric car in London. I think it was a Th!nk. I enjoyed his book, but I accept ...

Interesting vehicle. No doubt you knew that our own Prince Philip had one like that back in the 1980's. I recall reading about it in the newspapers back then. http://vboa.org.uk/index.php/committee/internationalmeeting2009/_images/toplevel.php?p=n1&inc=33 http://www.mamut.net/svenskavauxhallregi...

I saw an industry-focussed advert for the new GoCycle e-bike (http://www.bikebiz.com). Aparently there are 200 out in the world being tried and tested currently. "They have 9Ah NiMH battery and a 250 Watt plug and play motor with controller that is USB programmable which can go on for 3-5 hours...