Battery Vehicle Society

Oh, seems he did write about it but it was back in Feb, presumably when they filmed the item:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2 ... e_car.html

BBC Newsnight on 15/4/09 had Justin Rowlatt travel by coach to Detroit to see and drive the Chevy Volt. The prototype he was first shown looked much like the Toyota Prius/ (new) Honda Insight. The car he drove looked a little more 2003 if you know what I mean. Presumably it had the same technology. ...

The front page was almost entirely about electric cars with a large image of a G-Wiz being driven.


http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 65354.html

I read this in their membership magazine "The Hub" but it appears to be the same thing as here at page 22 in "The Network". For my own part I struggle with justifying having a battery car for local journeys (I'd cycle) but I'd be happier to use an electric car for longer journeys...

In the Feb/March 2009 edition of Traffic Technology International there's an interesting article about 'Fostering a transportation energy transformation' which discusses, among other things, how battery storage can make "EVs ....to act as model citizens of the utility grid by providing ancillar...

er, and LPG too

http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/wands ... _launches/


http://www.ecovanandman.com/moving_vans.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 185072.stm

Any relation?

Can't see the YouTube. Can someone gove a quick description of what the clip is?

ETA (Environmental Transport Association) send me a weekly news bulletin. They have an article on a 1972 Datsun fitted with 2 forklift motors.

http://www.eta.co.uk/A-fast-electric-ca ... node/11926

http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/whitezombie.php

Thanks to the ETA I just read about a company in the NE proposing to build car-ports with solar panels on top. Why not just build a roofed car park with panels on top? Oh well, good luck to them! "A spokeswoman for the company explained that the testing would allow Romag to assess how the devic...