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With 2,831 sold, August was a good month for sales of the Chevrolet Volt. In fact, it was the most Volts sold in the U.S. in a single month, ever. Critics questioned whether those sales were legitimate, but there's no question the Volt is on a roll. Could Chevy orchestrate a repeat? September has answered that question with a resounding yes, and then some: GM sold 2,851 Volts last month.
The September news was good for the country's best-selling pure EV, moving 984 units, up quite a bit from the 685 sold in August.
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Uporabnik Ogo pravi:
Saj je logično ane? ...
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The numbers show that even in the worst case, on the dirtiest grid and assuming EV vehicle production creates twice the number of global warming emissions as a gasoline vehicle, an EV still has a slight (6%) emission advantage compared to the average new compact.
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Their calculations were for a 1,000 kg motor, the motor in the Nissan Leaf weighs 53kg.
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The study the BBC news site referred to with such enthusiasm was from the NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
Norway is a major oil and gas producer and this particular university has a partnership with Statoil.
They fund the Center for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry. Nothing wrong with that, it’s on the public record, it’s not covert and I fully support such arrangements.
The NTNU is in Trondheim, the same city where SINTEF (An independent industrial research organization) runs their Petroleum Research Laboratory also in partnership with NTNU. According to NTNU's web site, the lab has 750 people which would make it a rather significant operation.
Trondheim is also the city where Statoil is building a $42 million dollar research facility.
This year the NTNU hosted "Statoil Day" to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Statoil.
Of the four authors of the report the BBC highlighted, the only professor is Anders Hammer Strømman. He belongs to the Department of Energy and Process Engineering. That department works with SINTEF and is headed by Olav Bolland, who won the Statoil Award for Outstanding Research in 2011, which includes a cash prize of roughly $35,000, plus a work of art.
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Today, Volvo announced a new 22-kW fast-charger for the C30 Electric that "operates on three-phase supplies and is small enough to be fitted in an electric car." Volvo says this is the world's first three-phase, on-board charger. This helps reduce the charging time to completely refill an empty pack in an average EV from eight-to-10 hours to just 90 minutes, when used with a 400-volt, three-phase outlet with 32 amps.
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Plug-in vehicle sales totaled 6,784 units, the third-consecutive monthly record.
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VW is launching the compressed natural gas-powered Eco Up!, which the company calls "the world's most fuel-efficient natural gas passenger car." The little city car burns 2.9 kilograms of CNG to go 100 kilometers (62 miles) and emits 79 grams of CO2 per km. That is roughly equivalent to 56 US miles per gallon. The only natural gas passenger vehicle available for sale in the US, the 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas, gets 31 mpg (combined). The Eco Up!, though, is not destined for sale here. Instead, VW is launching the car in Europe, where there is talk of making fuel for natural gas vehicles from biomass sources, such as renewable biomethane.
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Avtomobil na električni pogon ni več misija nemogoče. V podjetju Svarun elektro, d. o. o., vam vaš avtomobil predelajo na električni pogon.
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Sredstva bodo namenjena
izvajanju naslednjih programov:
- dodeljevanje nepovratnih finančnih spodbud občanom za ukrepe učinkovite rabe energije
in rabe obnovljivih virov energije v stanovanjskih stavbah,
- spodbujanje nakupa baterijskih električnih vozil in
- spodbujanje nakupa vozil na stisnjen zemeljski plin ali bioplin, namenjenih javnemu
potniškemu prometu.