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There are ~100 THINK City EVs available now for $22,500

With little fuss and fanfare it seems that the Municipality of Oslo has decided that 50% of its available down-town public parking should get a charging station. Oslo already has about 400 stations in place and as can be seen on the picture above they are quite crowded. This…

Two teams were on the Bonneville Salt Flats for the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials this week.  These time trials are FIM accredited which turned out to be significant regarding to the 215.96 miles/hr record that Lightning set a couple weeks ago.

Results:

Chip Yates: Earned four FIM accredited electric motorcycle land speed records, using the same bike.  He did slight reconfigurations of the motorcycle so that it qualified in four…

This week Lightning Motorcycles went to the Bonneville Salt Flats and made a huge leap forward for electric motorcycle performance, completely shattering previous electric motorcycle land speed records.  Records that had been set by Lightning a year ago.

They made several runs beginning with a practice/qualifying run of 178 miles/hr that itself broke last years record (they'd set themselves) by a few miles/hr. The next run broke 200 miles/hr with a 205 miles/hr speed.  A couple days…

Norway is famous for its EV incentives that has helped propelling an electric vehicle to outsell small gas cars nationwide. Today the norwegian EV association together with politicians from all political parties paraded through Oslo escorted by police to mark unity in keeping the…

We all kind of knew the day was coming and today its for real. Think has declared bankruptcy and th company that made us found electricaid.org in the first place will be dismantled in the norwegian courts in the days ahead.

Think has had a difficult life from the…

I have finally set up a dedicated page on my website All Electric Vehicles for electric car conversions here - Electric Car Conversion.

If you have converted an electric car and want to share your story with the world, then you can add your own story to my site. All you have to do is go to the botoom of the …

 I am a great supporter of E.V. and my specific contribution I am planning is training auto mechanics to service E.V. safely, and make repairs, and perhaps to do conversions to pure battery electric, or hybrid, or mild hybrid, or to convert hybrid to plug-in and /or add to the battery pack to increase electric range. As we progress with the preliminaries to opening "Electric Vehicle Technical Institute Inc." one item we seem to be receiving a lot of feedback on is my personal taste in…

My new book, The 2011 Electric Car Guide, is now on sale and available in both paperback and ebook formats.

For the first time, electric cars are now available from mainstream manufacturers and electric cars are becoming available for people to buy. Yet despite the optimism of…

I took a quick spin in the new Ford Transit Connect EV yesterday, at its UK launch.

This vehicle is significant - it is the first electric vehicle to be launched by Ford and whilst it is currently only going to be available as a van, a five door 'people carrier' version is under…

I have just updated my list of electric cars for sale at the moment around the world. I also have a list of whats coming up in the future included all on my website here All Electric Vehicles Available Now

Hope everyone will enjoy and let me…

Today the Norwegain energy company Ishavskraft (meaning Ice Sea Power) launched their plans for a national network of Chademo fast chargers. The network will cover all of the main roads in norway and will stretch over 2500 miles and it is called "Ishavsveien" - The ice sea road.…

Representatives from the Neptune Network stoppet a nuclear waste train transport this friday using the pint sized Buddy electric vehicle. The protest was met with swift action from the nuclear police and the buddy was placed on the side of the track. Pictures with the EV standing on the track can be found longer…

The January numbers from the governmental registry for cars are in, and the Mitsubishi iMiev is now officially the biggest selling car in its segment in Norway. By selling 99 iMievs in January the iMiev outsells the Peugeot 107 (87 cars), Toyota Aygo (60), Citroen C1 (54), Toyota IQ (29), Suzuki Alto (27)…

A picture says more than a thousand words and although the rollout of Leafs worldwide will go slow at start, The first Leaf delivered to a U.S customer as pictured above marks the start of a new…

The Scandinavian Buddy-maker, Pure Mobility has decided that electricity is good and renewable is better. So to make sure that we all can drive on renewable energy, every Buddy that is sold from now on will come with a Guarantee on Origin certificate on the estimated power a Buddy consumes. …