I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a while since I read about it in Wired. Better Place is a company formed by ex-SAP product chief Shai Agassi, it’s mission is to end the worlds dependence on fossil fuels for transport. No small objectives there then. To be honest I’d never heard of …
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Fisker Karma
I was just looking through some car news and noticed this, the Fisker Karma: It’s a rather clever hybrid sports car, it even has solar panels in the roof to boost the batteries. But… it is just me or does the front look a little like the Joker? Fortunately the rest of the car looks …
Green fuels again
Just following on from my lost post, I’ve just watched an interesting piece on Channel 4 news about fuel prices and green taxes. In the piece, one of the talking heads said something like "road pricing is far fairer [than fuel duty] by pricing on distance travelled". I can’t help thinking that this way of …
Lotus and fuels for the future
Being a fan of all things Lotus, I’ve been following news about their tri-fuel Exige 270E technology demo with some interest. It’s essentially a standard Exige that has been modified to run on either Petrol, Ethanol or Methanol – or any combination of the three. Sensors tell the ECU what fuel is being used and …