When an empire strikes back it's likely with the expectation that it's swatting a fly. Sometimes the underdog is able to win even though the empire looks like an 8000 pound gorilla that can smash anything in its path. These tortured allusions to movies and wildlife don't do justice to the strange batt… Continue

From the press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 26, 2010 – Electric vehicle manufacturer THINK today announced that it will work with AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) (AV), a leading developer and supplier of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, to pursue demonstration and commercial projects using AV's level III fast-charge system and the THINK City electric vehicle. The p… Continue

Press Release
"Loan used to modify Smyrna, Tenn., manufacturing plant for production in 2012

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Secretary of Ener… Continue

I want to try to list steps that car makers, and drivers could/should take to improv… Continue

Open to public on Saturday, January 16 through Sunday, January 24, 2010, 9 am to 10 pm every day except last day to 7 pm.
Other EVs also available for test driving.

Read more about it and view the video at
http://www.wndu.com/hometop/headlines/81370942.html#

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Here's a really interesting video of a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, about using GPS to improve EV's and using supercapacitors to greatly improve regenerative braking. Here's the Scion xB they are using for their test platform:

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