With the much anticipated launch next year of quite possibly the two most important cars of our time, is it a wonder that people are confused with all the marketing hype and noise out there.  We’ve got color naming contests,  22 city road shows, gauntlet face slapping T.V. commercials, blog sites with daily content and even show and tell with middle school kids.  Is it really that hard to believe that people might be getting confused about which car does what, who has the best MPG, EV vs. Hybrid and why choose one over the other?

Talk about building up the hype, GM has announced the three finalist for their color naming contest.  “EV-ergreen”, “Veridian joule” and “EnviroMint”.  All fun and quirky names that conjure up thoughts of eco-warrior meets metrosexual chic.  Couple this with the constant “May the Best Car Win” TV ads and one might think that the Volt would be the hands down favorite in terms of mindshare.  But don’t count out that little company from Japan.  They have a few tricks up their sleeve too!!!

Nissan is on a “pilgrimage to mecha-annical” glory.  They have reached out to all the stakeholders and media alike and asked them to attend 1 of 22 different roadshows.  At the event, we get a chance to feast our excited eyes  on the Leaf, network with other EV enthusiasts and take turns driving a prototype around a little track at low speed.  A few of the people who have taken this opportunity to test drive the Leaf-like car use words like “seamless power delivery”, “smooth” and my favorite ” noticeably quite”.  All very positive endorsements.

The next and probably most aggressive attempt at winning the hearts of families is now being launched by GM.  Get ready for the biggest “show and tell” school event ever.  GM is inviting 800 middle school kids in LA. plus any other kid who wants to attend online to participate in a huge school yard education session.  Though the kids are probably not the ones who will buy the car next year, they will be the future purchasers of both Hybrids and EV’s and it makes sense to reach out to them now.

So who is the ultimate winner of the hype?  Hopefully it will be all of us in the end.

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Iki yol vardı önünde ya arkasına bakmadan devam edecekti, ya da arkasına dönüp tüm amaçlarını ve arzularını geride bırakacaktı. Kabuller ve yetinmeler dünyasına arzular çok geliyordu. Gözyaşının zayıflık olduğu çağlardaydı artık. Susmanın teslimiyet, esaret konuşmanın olduğu çağlarda … Umutsuz bakışları geriye döndü kendisine uzanan ele baktı. O el çok zaman okşamıştı yüzünü yanaklarını ve o el her zaman güven vermişti kendisine. Şimdi o eli tutacak olsa sanki zindana girecekmiş gibi hissediyordu kendini. Sevgisi zindanı olmuştu özgürlüğünün.Çaresiz kaldı, eli tuttu ve geri döndü, aç kalmış evcil taklidi yapan bir kedi gibi eziyethanesine.

EV cars have long fascinated me, frankly I want one. I have wanted one since GM’s controversial ev1 program. For many EV’s are perfect since the average person does not travel more than 40 miles a day. One of the barriers for widespread EV adoption though is the Battery Technology unfortunately.

Large scale batteries add a pretty hefty cost to the price of a car and have an unavoidable limit on how far one can travel with a single charge; not to mention the impact on the environment. So the customer is paying more for a handicapped vehicle. I love the EV concept and even I get that.  Until this is either overcome completely or at minimum total mileage is around 120 miles with little to no cost difference EV’s will remain a niche product. They will have a place in the market, but will never rule the roads.

One promising technology is a liquid battery called Redox Flow. In this type of battery a charged fluid and be extracted when it loses its charge and then replaced with freshly charged fluid. These fluids can be used over and over again which makes it sustainable unlike many of our current battery technologies. With this concept one could pull into a “gas” station, pump out expired battery fluid, pump in fresh fluid, the station could then recharge the fluid, and sell it right back. Conceivably this tech could not only kill out dependence on foreign oil it could save/create jobs through “gas” stations AND eliminate the pollution to refine and transport petrol.

For more information on this check out the article over on cnet.

President Barack Obama has set an ambitious goal of putting at least 1 million battery-powered cars on the road by the middle of the coming decade.

Many in the auto industry have charitably called that target ambitious. Others are less polite. But while it may be a difficult goal, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is among those who believe the public may get charged up by the switch to electric power.

To get there, however, he stresses that some of the industry’s basic business models may have to be rethought to reflect the new world of electric propulsion.

Ghosn was in Los Angeles recently for the start of Nissan’s “Zero Emissions Tour,” a 22-city road show that will lead up to the launch next year of the first of four battery-electric vehicles, or BEVs, the Japanese maker plans to launch in the next few years.

The Leaf is a 5-seat sedan similar in size to the subcompact Versa, but it replaces the current model’s gasoline engine with an 80 kilowatt electric motor with about 110 horsepower that draws its power from a lithium-ion battery pack.

While Ghosn is quick to proclaim that battery propulsion “will change the industry,” he also acknowledges that to win over buyers, tomorrow’s BEVs will need to be “affordable, … cool, attractive and fun to drive.”

On the positive side, electric motors develop maximum tire-spinning torque the moment they start to turn, and a prototype Leaf launched fast enough to throw a passenger back deep into the seat. The design of Nissan’s first battery car is as distinctive as Toyota’s gas-electric hybrid Prius, though Leaf program manager Hideaki Watanabe said Nissan opted against a “spaceship-style design” to avoid alienating more traditional buyers who might otherwise want an emissions-free car.

Nissan is betting there is a core group of buyers who will opt for a vehicle like the Leaf to assuage their “environmental guilt.”

But to make the technology sustainable as a business will require reaching into the mainstream. That’s not easy. Even conventional hybrids, such as the Prius, Honda’s Insight and the Ford Fusion Hybrid, are struggling to garner more than 2 to 3 percent of the U.S. automotive market.

There is no hard data, but it’s estimated that there are only a few thousand BEVs on the road now, not including hybrids, which also have a gasoline engine. Hybrids have had some initial success in part because they don’t have some of the limitations of the pure battery car, such as limited range, long charging times and high costs, mostly for their batteries.

Because of pricey lithium-ion, or LIon, technology, General Motors is expected to charge more than $40,000 for its extended-range electric vehicle, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. A special $7,500 federal tax credit will bring the price down to the mid-$30,000 range, still a sizable chunk for a compact sedan.

Ghosn suggests the Leaf will be priced no more than “2 to 3 percent” more than a comparable gasoline vehicle, which would mean $25,000 or less, depending on final equipment levels.

How can Nissan afford to make such a deal without going deeply in debt on each vehicle? The sticker price will cover just the vehicle itself, and not the battery, which will be leased separately, Ghosn said. The monthly fee will be based on what it would cost to fuel up a comparable, gasoline-powered vehicle to run about 15,000 miles annually which, depending upon your assumptions about future oil prices could run $200 to $400.

In its initial incarnation, the Leaf is expected to deliver up to 100 miles on a charge. Actual mileage may vary, depending on driving style and driving conditions. That may not sound like much but research shows that up to 70 percent of American drivers drive less each day than the 40-mile battery range of Volt and more than 80 percent never reach 100 miles in a day.

That doesn’t completely resolve so-called “range anxiety,” the fear of needing a little bit more in an emergency. To help address that, Nissan has been forming a variety of partnerships with the likes of Project Better Place, which is setting up a network of quick charging stations in Israel, and even special facilities that can swap a discharged battery for a fresh one in no more time than it normally takes to gas up.

Here in the States, Nissan recently inked a partnership with Texas-based Reliant Energy, which will provide fast 220-volt chargers to Leaf buyers and set up quick-charge facilities that could be used at offices or on the road. Nissan says one system under development would give an 80 percent charge in less than 10 minutes.

(Via)

I did a walkaround of the full fairings. here it is.

A kind soul named serjohn on VFRWorld.com was offering a chin fairing for the price of shipping. When i contacted him about it, he mentioned he had an aftermarket fairing set that was in decent condition which he would let go for a nominal fee. So for $55 (25 for the fairings + $30 for shipping), i got a full fairing set! They’re in much better condition than i thought they would be. Woohoo!

I like these fairings first off, because they were a steal. Second because these go back farther towards the rear wheel than others i’ve seen (the airtech-streamlining type: http://www.airtech-streamlining.com/hondaz/VF5001983-86.htm), and the one that the Nationals Fiberglass guy makes has cutouts for the alternator and other casing cover on the other side). These don’t have that cutout, which works out better for me since i’m getting rid of those things. Also, the fourth picture shows the extra space on the outside of the frame which i may be able to use for more battery space. I’m not sure about that given the internal frame.

I’m still working on dismantling things. I’m working on getting the engine ready for removal. The Clymer book says to remove things like the starter motor and alternator before removing the engine, but i’m not really sure i need to so that.

İşte annemin mousepad açılımı.

De otros planetas – From Other Planets is a collaboration track
between Melis in Italy and Ivette aka EV from the band Corrientes in NY, USA.
Melis sent the instrumental track as as a wav. file to EV and then she added her vocals over it.
Thinking about the title and the music, EV was wondering what the theme for the lyrics might be.
After speaking to her good friend “Mack Sanders” who is a wonderful musician and also hosts
a show on Mixposure.com he suggested …
“Well, you know how they say that men are from Mars and women are from Venus”.
So… instead of singing about things we associate with outer space,
EV brought it down to Earth S
Men and women…
Are men and woman really so different?
This is an electronic based track with the lyrics sung in Spanish.
Hope you enjoy it!
Please share your thoughts and feelings about it with Melis and Ivette

You can listen to it here on Last.FM:
http://www.last.fm/music/Corrientes/Corrientes+Collaborative+IV/De%2BOtros%2BPlanetas%2B-%2BCorrientes%2B%2526%2BAndrea%2BMelis</

An article in the current issue of The Economist asks: “After many false starts, battery-powered cars seem here to stay. Are they just an interesting niche product, or will they turn motoring upside down?”

Read the full article here.

” In 1995 Joseph Bower and Clayton Christensen, two researchers at the Harvard Business School, invented a new term: “disruptive technology.” This is an innovation that fulfills the requirements of some, but not most, consumers better than the incumbent does. That gives it a toehold, which allows room for improvement and, eventually, dominance. The risk for incumbent firms is that of the proverbial boiling frog. They may not know when to switch from old to new until it is too late.

The example Dr. Bower and Dr. Christensen used was a nerdy one: computer hard-drives. But unbeknown to them a more familiar one was in the making. The first digital cameras were coming on sale. These were more expensive than film cameras and had lower resolution. But they brought two advantages. A user could look at a picture immediately after he had taken it. And he could download it onto his computer and send it to his friends.

Fourteen years on, you would struggle to buy a new camera that uses film. Some of the leading camera-makers, such as Panasonic, are firms that had little interest in photography when Dr. Bower and Dr. Christensen published. And an entire industry, the manufacturing and processing of film, is rapidly disappearing.

Substitute “car” for “camera” and you have a story that should concern thoughtful bosses in the motor and oil industries. Internal-combustion engines have dominated mechanized road transport for a century, but the past year or so has seen the arrival of a dribble of vehicles driven by electric motors. That these are the products of small, new firms, or of established non-carmaking companies, supports the Bower-Christensen thesis. But next year the big boys, encouraged by legislative pressure to produce low-emission vehicles, will leap out of the boiling water and join in. “

Note from the author : I remember an article of Shai Agassi (Better Place) explaining that the Electric Vehicle could be compared to e-mail, and Internal Combustion Engined cars compared to traditional written letters sent by Post-office… and that Hybrid Vehicles are like fax ! A mixed combination of both technologies … with all disadvantages !

FD

From http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2009/09/the-electric-fuel-trade-acid-test-not-simply-another-plug-for-evs.html

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Hey hey!

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I've been singing with my band, Across the wire across the land
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I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way
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Take me to them dirty ladies every time

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Oh and give it all you got
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Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round
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Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round

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Now your mortgages and homes, I got stiffness in the bones
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Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
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Heap big woman you made a big man out of me
Now get this

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Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round
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Fat bottomed girls You make the rockin' world go round

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Apparently Rolls-Royce is getting ready to jump on the EV bandwagon and will offer an electric Phantom late next year. This will most likely be a lease only program in a few select cities. Via Autoblog Green

So, in preparation for removing the engine, the Clymer book said to drain the oil and coolant.  Now, i’ve never been much of a car wrench, so i haven’t done much of this.  It ended up being relatively easy, but the aftermath of cleaning up and dealing with the used oil/coolant/gas. is a pain.  Thankfully, the county is having a hazardous waste pickup day this coming saturday close to where we live, so i can take it there

1. Poland should be happy having RWE as one of their electricity suppliers. Simply because it is actually investing in electricity-beyond-carbon era.  And there you go – RWE has just launched the first charging station for EVs in Warsaw.
2. This coincides with “foothold strategy” endorsement by Electrification Coalition in the US. Better place is pushing the same goal in cities worldwide, and in both cases – we’re still in very early phases. Basically, companies are looking for municipalities to collaborate delivering the infrastructure. EV-electric vehicle-currently stands as the most viable solution for our transport misery.
3. Creating a test-bed in a small city as Vilnius would bring multiple benefits: positive environmental effects,  revitalize related businesses and help brand the capital. Perhaps it’s not too late.

Electric vehicles are cleaner than fossil fuel driven ones. True or False?
Did I hear, “Of course, it’s true!” ? Or was it “False, you’ve only moved the pollution from the cars to the power plants!”
The right answer, as in most cases, is “Well, it depends…” – the answer to life, the universe and everything else we have no clue about.

The latest lecture in my class on Sustainable Energy Systems and an article by a Senior Lecturer at my university (Gas vs Electric Mini Cooper) provided fodder for this post.

First of all, what is an electric vehicle? It could be one of four types :

1. Battery electric vehicle -> Propelled by an electric motor which is powered by a rechargeable battery.
2. Hybrid Electric Vehicle -> Propelled by a combination of an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. The electricity is generated from regenerative braking or from the internal combustion engine.
3. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle -> Propelled by an electric motor powered by a rechargeable battery. Backup electricity is generated by an internal combustion engine
4. Fuel Cell  -> Propelled by an electric motor. The electricity is generated from a fuel cell that combines hydrogen gas and oxygen.

A hybrid electric vehicle uses only petrol (or gasoline) as a fuel. A smaller engine, automatic switching off of the engine when the vehicle comes to a stop and electric motor drive at low speeds (where ICEs are inefficient) results in a cleaner vehicle than one running using  fossil fuels in Internal Combustion Engines. So the answer here would be True.

The answer for the other three would depend on how the electricity is produced (or how hydrogen is produced). In the US, about half the electricity is produced using coal. Which means that generating and using 1 MJ of electricity (1 MJ Life Cycle Energy which included the energy needed to mine the coal, refine uranium etc. ) in the US would release 1.7 times more CO2-equivalent than producing and using gasoline containing 1 MJ of Life Cycle Energy (including the energy required to extract the crude, refine it, transport it etc.)

Upstream emissions are emissions in the production of the fuel. Tailpipe emissions are from the exhaust pipe of the vehicle during the use stage. Source: Near-term estimates from GREET 1.8; Farrel, et al. (2006) for ethanol with credit.

So that makes electricity dirty right? NO!

An electric motor is far more efficient than an internal combustion engine. From  John DeCicco’s article, where he compares a gasoline driven Mini Cooper with the Mini Cooper Electric, I gather that the Electric version needs

33 kWh of electrical energy to travel 100 miles on city roads
and
36 kWh of electrical energy  to travel 100 miles on a highway

(Why is it better on city roads? Electric motors are more efficient than internal combustion engines at low speeds, which is what you’d encounter on city roads,  while internal combustion engines are probably more efficient at higher speeds, on highways)

The combined average (55% city driving and 45% highway driving) of these two mileages is 34.4 kWh per 100 miles

A gallon of gasoline (or about 4 L of petrol) has an energy content of 33.7 kWh.  (More on conversion from electricity to gasoline here)
To find the mileage,

33.7 kWh    100 miles
————– X  ————– =    97.7 miles per gallon
1 gallon      34.4 kWh

A Mini Cooper Hardtop has a mileage rating of :

City : 28 miles per gallon
Highway : 37 miles per gallon

The average mileage is 32.1 miles per gallon.

This means that an electric car is around 3 times (97.7/32.1) more energy efficient than an internal combustion engine propelled car. Given that electricity is 1.7 times more polluting to generate than gasoline, an electric car is roughly 2 times cleaner than its petrol or gasoline alternative. The assumption here being that around 50% of electricity is produced from coal. In India, where the proportion of coal generated electricity is higher, electric cars would be far less cleaner than their US counterparts, but still cleaner than a petrol driven car.  DeCicco’s article says  that the gasoline powered Mini Cooper emits 357 g of CO2 per mile driven. If the electricity is generated completely from coal, the electric Mini Cooper would emit 355g of CO2 per mile.

So, finally, is an electric car cleaner than a fossil fuel car?
A battery electric car definitely is. Even if you assume that all the electricity is generated from the “diritiest” options – coal fired plants (which is never the case) you still emit marginally less Green House Gases (GHGs) than in using a petrol fuelled car. With the increase in penetration of solar and wind energy generation, it only gets cleaner.

But what about fuel cells and hybrids or Compressed Natural Gas fuelled cars? More analyses and more posts.

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