Plug In America is a web site deciated to promoting Plug-in Cars for a Better America.
Also on the site is a PLUG-IN VEHICLE TRACKER that keeps up-to-date information on all makes and models of all plug-in cars, trucks and bikes—their features, production status and photos.
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I’m going to call this extremely misleading. The water is not fuel. It must be separated into hydrogen and oxygen and then the H burned in a combustion process or the H & O are recombined in a fuel cell. No matter what, there must be something other than water and that something costs money and energy to produce. And whatever that is, it must be replaced.
The company that makes this car is Genepax. They did not protect the name globally so there have been others grab the name and exploit it. Here is their website and they claim money and development problems. IF this worked, it would be a thousand trillion dollar idea and no lack of money to make it happen.
Every other claim to have invented a “water powered car” has turned out to be a hoax.
Nissan and ECOtality have announced plans to roll out a ‘fast charge’ electric car network in Arizona, capable of topping up batteries in as little as 10-15 minutes.
The Japanese company has teamed up with EV charge-tech firm ECOtality and the Pima association of government’s, (representing the Tucson, Arizona region), to establish a pilot-scale network in readiness for the launch of Nissan electric cars in the US next year.
As part of the deal, Nissan has agreed to supply EVs to public and private fleets across the region and publicise the benefits of zero-emission vehicles.
ECOtality President and chief executive Jonathan Read used the partnership announcement to take a swipe at recharge infrastructure competitors Project Better Place, arguing that their fast charge system is cheaper and more user-friendly than Project Better Place’s battery swap model.
He told reporters, “It takes 10 or 15 minutes to fast charge, which isn’t going to be much quicker or slower than swapping a battery, and certainly a lot less moving parts and potential points of failure. Let alone the capital costs required to build a battery swap infrastructure,” he said. “Batteries are going to get larger. Range is going to get greatly improved. The amount of energy that you’re going to pour into a vehicle in a given timeframe is going to increase shortly.”
via Gas 2.0.
The Ronn Motor Company has unveiled a running prototype of its mid-engine Scorpion roadster—touted as the world’s first “hydrogen-hybrid eco-exotic premium sports car.” The Austin, Texas-based start-up’s initial plans call for building 200 examples of the $150,000 Scorpion, with deliveries expected to commence early this year. Beneath its carbon-fiber composite body (fabricated by the famed Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafters in Fountain Valley, California), the car employs a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter Acura V-6 engine modified to burn a blend of gasoline and hydrogen gas. Unlike Honda’s hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity fuel-cell vehicle, however, the Scorpion gets its H2 not from a dedicated hydrogen refueling station, but from an on-board electrolysis unit that separates regular water into its elemental components: oxygen and hydrogen. The oxygen is released into the atmosphere and the hydrogen is delivered straight to the engine, contributing to the combustion process and reducing gasoline consumption by 30 to 40 percent. Even with as much as 600 horsepower and a top speed in excess of 200 mph, the Scorpion—claims CEO Ronn Maxwell (who founded the company with former Dell Computer executive Adrian Pylypec)—will return a fairly stunning 40 mpg. (www.ronnmotors.com)
The Medium Speed Electric Vehicle Bill is awaiting a public hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. If it is not put on the schedule by the end of the day Monday, March 2, it will die, and with it our hopes for a law allowing Medium Speed Electric Vehicles in Hawaii. Please check the deails below and send a short e-mail if you want to support this useful stage of growing sustainable transportation.
Click here to send an e-mail to:
Representative Jon Riki Karamatsu
Chairman, Judiciary Committee
Subject: HB 144 Medium Speed Electric Vehicles
Message: Please hold a public hearing for HB 144 Medium Speed Electric Vehicles
Remember to include your name and island.
Every state legislator has been asked for assistance, but it’s all the citizens pulling together that really has the greatest influence. If you haven’t sent an e-mail yet, please, please do.
THE SITUATION
At the moment, there is only one special classification for electric vehicles to be used on roads. They are called Low Speed Vehicles and evolved from golf carts. However golf carts only go about 15 mph and do not have any safety features at all. Low Speed Vehicles are required to have headlights, taillights stoplights, directional signals, seatbelts, and review mirrors. They are required to be able to go at least 20 MPH but must not exceed 25 MPH. They look something like this:
In the past few years, companies world wide, have started building electric cars that look like cars. These cars are presently sold and licensed as low-speed vehicles because that is the only classification available. However, they are capable of going faster and many believe they are significantly safer than the open golf cart type Low-Speed Vehicles. There is a national movement to create a new class called Medium Speed Electric Vehicles, MSEV, which would be allowed to go 35 mph in a 45 mph zone. Here are a few examples of what they look like.
As you can see there is a tremendous amount of difference between the vehicles in the top row and the vehicles in the bottom row. However at the moment there is only one class for all of these and it is Low-Speed Vehicles which means that all these vehicles are only allowed to go 25 mph on roads with speed limits 35 mph or below. Click here for video.
There are a few full speed, or highway speed electric vehicles but these cost at least $50,000 with some over $100,000. MSEV cost $10-20,000.
Electric vehicles must be very light to be practical. Neither the Low-Speed Vehicles nor the proposed Medium Speed Electric Vehicles can meet the full National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, (NHTSA) safety requirements for highway speed vehicles. The safety requirements for Medium Speed Electric Vehicles must be defined.
NHTSA refused to define the safety criteria for Low Speed Vehicles for 50 years. They finally acted after there were about a million golf carts being operated by retirees on public streets and only after 15 states had defined their own Low-Speed Vehicle criteria. We are now in exactly the same position with Medium Speed Electric Vehicles. NHTSA refused to define the safety criteria for MSEV
Five states have already adopted MSEV laws;Washington, Montana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Kentucky did it by administrative order so that’s 6 states where MSEV is allowed.
At least nine states are considering MSEV bills this legislative session as of February 25, 2009
| STATE | MSEV speed– Road speed limit |
PROPOSAL | Hawai’i | (35-45) | HB 144 | New Mexico | (35-45) | HB 294 | Kentucky | (50-45) | SB 7 | New York | (35-45) | A00870 | Texas | (35-35) | SB 129 | Oregon | (35-40) | HB 2120 | South Carolina | (35-35) | S 0419 | Georgia | (35-35) | HB 530 | Colorado | (35-45) | SB 075 |
Of course Medium Speed Electronic Vehicles have all the environmental, petroleum eliminating, economic, traffic calming, pedestrian safety and other positive features expected from all-electric vehicles as detailed in the video linked above.
For more information, send an email to Buck Joiner
Maui Electric Co. (MECO) and a California manufacturer of electric vehicles signed an accord on Tuesday, Dec. 9, allowing the utility to test the durability of new battery-powered pickup trucks. Ontario, Calif.-based Phoenix Motorcars will provide 20 to 30 of the vehicles to Maui Electric by March in order to test battery technologies that use a “nano-titanite” system. It will be the first such test in the nation for Phoenix vehicles. “Electric vehicles will be less expensive to run and emit less total carbon dioxide than the same vehicle run on gasoline,” said MECO President Ed Reinhardt. “The numbers are even better when the power comes from renewable sources, and that’s what we hope to do.” Gov. Linda Lingle called the accord a significant step toward making Hawaii far more reliant on renewable sources of electricity. The six-month test on Maui will also determine how the trucks interact with the island’s electricity grid when they are recharging, as well as the devices used to connect the vehicles to an electrical source.
-Maui Weekly, December 18, 2008
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