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On this special episode, Jason Guise is back after many months of slacking off at work. We are also joined by special guest Jim Motavalli, who shares his experience with the President of Iceland when discussing electric vs. hydrogen cars. Then we have news from the week and even a partial song!
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The Toyota PHEV Prius was stated at 90 minutes at 230V. 230V is a "common household outlet" in many parts of the world -- just not the US.
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Also: Do you have a link for that article about Iceland's EV goal? I can't seem to find it, and could really use the specifics.
Ryan Ryan Ryan, your electric sheep comment was... well... sigh...
Rei - here is the link we used for the story http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002420/icelands-president-pushes-for-evsand-a-100-percent-clean-energy-economy/?tag=shell;content
Have you read this? "Prodrive cuts battery-pack weight" http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=313198). "A new approach to the configuration of DC-DC converters could help reduce the cost, weight and size of electric-vehicle battery packs." If this is true I believe it could be a crucial breakthrough in the E. V. industry. Why wasn't this thought of sooner?
Dear oh dear oh dear.
Progressive automotive X-prize video with cool montage of EVs. 3:31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpG5hbY4WI
List of participants is here
http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/files/downloads/auto/Complete_List_of_Registered_PIAXP_Teams.pdf
Forget the whole 3-wheel versus 4-wheel debate for EVs, Honda has figured out that you only need one wheel.
Go to time marker 2:49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9BmMmFXw30
I don't really understand why the number of wheels should have any bearing on a money incentive - if anything it should be based on battery size and seating capacity simple formula- lets say $100 x #kwh x seats
Volt = $100 x 16 x 5 = $8,000 rebate
aptera = $100 x 10 x 2 = $2,000 rebate
NmG = $100 x 5 x 1 = $500
Tesla = $100 x 50 x 2= $10,000
Might be off on some of the battery sizes or seating but you get the general idea.
