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Written by Ken Burridge on 21 April 2018
World’s first Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) electric vehicle (EV) transaction has been demonstrated in the Netherlands. The IOTA cryptocurrency (#9 in coin market cap) and their distributed ledger Tangle technology has just been used to conduct a fee-free M2M transaction for this using a VPN from kodi that is the best [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 05 March 2018
Toyota released their fully electric Concept-i self driving car at CES 2017. Toyota is coming kind of late to the game to start testing their own autonomous, electric vehicles, but Toyota just invested (2.8 billion USD) in the Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (or TRI-AD) to make sure they can begin testing their own electric [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 06 November 2014
Why are potential Electric Vehicles (EV sales) numbers in China so electrifying? According to the World Bank’s 2010 research: USA has 425 cars per 1000 people (300,000,000 population) China has 42 cars per 1000 people (1,300,000,000 population) The number of cars per 1000 people in China is currently only 1/10 that of the USA so [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 04 November 2014
The 3rd Quarter of 2014 EV sales have gone through the roof in the UK to over 5000 plug-in vehicles according to records of the British Government’s Plug-in grant scheme. This is significant because the British Plug-in grant scheme as been in place since 2010 and all that time they had barely processed that many [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 03 November 2014
A team of Dutch students create a family-sized car powered only by electric that has a range of 500 miles. The EV placed first in Australia’s 2013 World Solar Challenge by winning the Michelin Cruiser Class for completing a 1,864 mile (3,000 kilometer) journey from Darwin to Adelaide. Stella was made to showcase technology that [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 26 September 2013
According to a Nissan press release dated September 26, 2013: Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing markets in the country for Nissan LEAF sales, with deliveries up a record breaking 500 percent so far in 2013 compared with the prior year (2012), get to find out everything about buying a used car the [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 17 April 2010
Rumors have been confirmed that a new electric concept car is currently being developed for Nissan’s Infinity brand. Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn announced at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show that it will be a luxury four-seat, high-performance EV (electric vehicle) with zero emissions. The Nissan Infinity EV will share some of the components [Continue]
Written by Ken Burridge on 04 December 2009
Back in 1999 Bertrand Piccard, along with Brian Jones, was the first to set off on a non-stop balloon flight around the globe and now he wants to do it again, but this time the plan is to circumnavigate the globe using an EV airplane powered only by solar power! The first test flight of [Continue]