Toyota plots Prius comeback as Tesla steals limelight
By Craig Trudell and Yuki Hagiwara. When Scott Fisher bought his 2006 Prius, there weren’t many other choices that give him use of the carpool lanes on his drive to work in New York. That changed last year when the Long Island lawyer traded in his car for a Honda Accord Hybrid. “It was starting […]
Car-share plan goes against grain
By Peter Calder. Deep pockets will be needed to make city commuters change their ways and sign up for scheme. Stand on any Auckland motorway bridge at morning rush hour and you can watch the stop-start bumper-to-bumper traffic throttling the city to death. What’s most noticeable about the cars jockeying for position in the motorway […]
Electric charging station opens in Newmarket
Electric vehicle charging station ready to go in Newmarket Via Driven Electric vehicle drivers can now charge up – for free – at a new charging station power company Vector has installed at its Newmarket office in Auckland. Vector CEO Simon Mackenzie said his company was supporting growth in the number of electric vehicles on […]
Weekend Marked the Shell Eco-Marathon in Detroit
By Anil Dayal. The Shell Eco-Marathon which was organized in Detroit brought teams of student teams one hundred and fourteen high schools and universities from the North, South and Central America. The marathon was not about speed but mostly about fuel efficiency over seven laps. The distance to be covered was less than a mile […]
Watch out Tesla! Aston Martin is building a 1,000-horsepower electric sedan
By Benjamin Zhang. Aston Martin is getting into the all-electric luxury sedan game — big time. According to Car and Driver, Aston Martin CEO Dr. Andy Palmer said that the company’s future electric super-sedan will: 1) Be based on the Rapide S 2) Arrive in about 2 years 3) Have as much as 1,000 horsepower […]
Tesla just announced a new entry-level car – and some cool new colours!
By Matthew Debord. Tesla is replacing its lowest-priced Model S sedan with a new version, called the 70D. In a statement, the car maker said that the new car will start “at $US67,500 after Federal Tax Credit, Model S 70D includes dual motor all-wheel drive technology, an EPA-rated 240 miles of range, and a 0-60 […]
NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions soar
By Brian Fallow. Rise raises doubts about Govt target of 5% reduction from 1990 levels by 2020. New Zealand’s net emissions of greenhouse gases climbed 42 per cent between 1990 and 2013. Gross emissions, which exclude carbon flows relating to forestry and land use change, rose 21 per cent between 1990 (year zero for carbon […]
ELON MUSK: This is the biggest problem we need to solve on Earth in this century
By Kelly Dickerson. It’s safe to say eccentric tech innovator and billionaire Elon Musk has a finger to the pulse of the future, and when he appeared on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio show in March, he came with a warning about it: “From a terrestrial standpoint, the biggest problem we need to solve […]
In the future, the car business is going to look very different
By John McDuling. “Telling the story of this chart will occupy the remainder my professional life. It’s sort of sad that my life can be boiled down to one chart… but it’s so true.” So begins a note this morning from the ever provocative Morgan Stanley auto analyst, Adam Jonas (first spotted by Bloomberg). Jonas […]