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Bosch’s $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain
Author: Margo Tipton
Today, electric cars are too expensive for most of us, even with prices creeping downward. A Tesla Model S will run you over a grand a month, and even Ford’s electric Focus sells for nearly $ 40,000. Making matters even tougher on the wallet is the fact that a home charging station will set you back as much as another $ 2,000. The auto industry knows all of these prices have to come down if electrics will catch on. And finally — on the home charger side of things anyway — something is being done about it. Bosch is taking online pre-orders for a $ 449 home car charger that is set to ship in June across the US and Canada.
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We Robot 2013 | Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? An Experiment in Laws as Algorithm.
Author: Angela Chin
On April 8, 2013, Stanford’s Program in Law, Science & Technology and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society hosted the second annual robotics and law co…
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The Hero Eco A2B Metro Electric Bike Is A City Commuter’s Dreamcycle
Author: Jamie Colby
As a man who spends most of his time in his attic, it’s nice to hit the open roads, feel a little wind in your hair, and run over crack vials as you motor through downtown Manhattan. That’s exactly what I did yesterday as when I tried to ride an Hero Eco A2B Metro electric bike from Bay Ridge to our offices on Broadway, thereby cementing my love for electric bikes and this electric bike in particular.
The Metro, made by German manufacturer Hero Eco (formerly Ultra Motor), is a brutalist electric bike with a built-in battery and maximum speed of 20 MPH. It has pedals and a 7-gear shifter so it is technically considered a moped and does not require a motorcycle license and a built-in limiter ensures you don’t go roaring down the streets on this 80 pound machine.
The company has had these bikes in the US for a few years now but they are working on a complete rebranding – although the bikes will remain the same. You can see the brand new bikes on this absolutely awful webpage they’ve made. This particular model costs about $ 3,000 online but the build quality is excellent and the equipment – from the fat Kenda tires to the Shimano shifter – is acceptable enough. I noticed some bad reviews on Amazon complaining of damaged motors or tires and, although I didn’t experience these issues over the past week, I cannot speak for extensive use. In my 15 mile ride I saw solid performance and no skidding or fishtailing while accelerating. I did, however, experience a low battery and riding this thing home, even for a mile, on pedal power wasn’t great.
The bike is bit big but it’s still thin enough to ensure you don’t get entangled with other riders in tight paths. I found it worked great in tight quarters and, because it is in actuality just a bicycle with a hub motor, the other cyclists didn’t give me that much of a stink eye.
I’ve avoided looking at electric bikes of late because most of them look like motors strapped to 10-speeds. This is far different and, if I were to describe it in any way, it is the exact opposite of those foldable city bikes folks are riding. My kids, in fact, have taken to calling it Super Bike.
Hero Eco is finding its footing right now and also has sub-$ 2,000 models available, including their own version of the folding electric called the Kuo which retails for $ 1,599. The company is also now calling itself HeroEco and was formerly called Ultra Motor, so you may see a bit of confusing until their full rebranding.
What are you paying for? Well, you’re paying for a solid, welded frame, solid components, and excellent acceleration. The range isn’t too shabby and for a bit more you can add on a second battery for 20 miles of range. I could also imagine a user removing the governor – though I’m sure Ultra Motors doesn’t condone this. This isn’t a sport bike. I could really see it more as a bike for folks with a 10-15 mile commute who want to hit the open air a little and don’t want (that much) of a carbon footprint.
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Ekinoid, HDlive ultrasound and the world’s lightest electric vehicle
Author: Janet Odell
Each week our buddies at Inhabitat recap the week’s most fascinating green advancements and clean tech information for us– it’s the Week in Environment-friendly.
It’s been an interesting week for green building as Inhabitat stated that a few of the world’s leading architects unveiled plans for state-of-the-art advancements with light ecological footprints. Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) won a worldwide design competitors for Europa, a brand-new green-roofed city outside of Paris. Construction began last week on a new solar-powered arena for the Euro 2016 football championship designed by Herzog & de Meuron. San Francisco commemorated the reopening of the Exploratorium this week in a new net-zero premises along the city’s waterside. In Mexico City, a helipad on the roof of a workplace structure was converted into a co-working space with a beautiful rooftop yard. And we also profiled the Ekinoid, a spherical, self-dependent house that sits on stilts and is built to stand up to catastrophe.
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No Comments »Electric Guitars Made Out Of Star Wars Spaceship Toys
Author: Jack Schmidt
Tom Bingham makes custom electric guitars out of the Star Wars spaceship toys he buys at car boot (trunk) sales (aka stolen goods sales). That’s cool, but not near as ICE COLD as the ice cream bar I’m eating right now. It’s strawberry — you jealous? No? What if I told you I was lying when I said it was strawberry and it’s actually a chocolate Drumstick? Still no? Orange Flintstones push-up pop? Okay, what’s your favorite ice cream? Because that’s what it is, it’s your favorite kind. I’m totally eating your favorite kind of ice cream right now and you are not.
Hit the jump for a video of Tom playing the Millennium Falcon.
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Detroit Electric Unveils The SP:01, A $135,000 Electric Sports Car With A Historic Past
Author: Tech Blogger
Nearly 100 years ago, the Anderson Carriage Company produced and sold one of the most popular electric vehicles of the time: The Detroit Electric. With production peaking at 1,000-2,000 cars in 1910, the company eventually renamed itself after its popular model and sold nearly 13,000 electric vehicles during its 32 years of production. The company never recovered from depression, producing its last EV in 1939.
Detroit Electric is back. Meet the first car to wear the historic nameplate in over 70 years: The SP:01.
The brand was revived in 2008 by Albert Lam, former Group CEO of the Lotus Engineering Group and Executive Director of Lotus Cars of England. Now headquartered in Detroit’s historic Fisher building, the company is set to restart Detroit Electric starting with the SP:01 electric sports car.
The SP:01 is just the first from the Detroit startup. More family friendly vehicles are in the works, with two new models in the pipeline for 2014. The company is also setting up its production shop somewhere in the Detroit area where it expects to have a yearly production capacity of 2,500 vehicles. This facility will create 180 new jobs.
Detroit Electric only plans on making 999 examples of the SP:01. That’s well under the 2,400 Tesla Roadsters produced during its four-year run. With a starting price of $ 135,000, the SP:01 also has a starting cost higher than the Roadster. But at least it’s just as fast.
Detroit Electric claims the SP:01 is the fastest pure-electric production car on the market. And that’s true since the Roadster is no longer available. It’s claimed, although yet verified, performance numbers puts the SP:01 on the same level as the limited edition Tesla Roadster Sport. Plus, with a claimed top speed of 155 mph and 0-62 mph time of 3.7 seconds, it’s quicker than just about every other car out of Detroit including the new Corvette Stingray.
Propulsion is provided by an air-cooled, asynchronous AC motor powered by dual 37-kWh lithium-polymer batteries. The system is good for 201 horsepower and 166 pound-feet of torque — not bad for a car that weighs just 2,403 pounds. Strangely enough, unlike the dead-simple Tesla Roadster, the SP:01 features a four-speed manual transmission or an optional two-speed automatic. Since the electric engine is either on or off, there is no need to use the clutch when stopping or starting.
Detroit Electric claims the SP:01 has a driving range of 180 miles based on the New European Driving Cycle, but as Autoblog notes, while the official calculations haven’t been released, that likely results in about 150 miles on a U.S. cycle.
It’s no secret that the carbon-fiber shell comes from a Lotus Exige. Interestingly enough, the Tesla Roadster is based largely on the Lotus Elise platform.
Per Detroit Electric’s press release, it takes 4.3 hours to fully charge the SP:01 from a 240 volt outlet with 32 amps. It takes 8 hours on a 13-amp sources. But like the Chevy Volt, the SP:01 can output its electrical charge, serving as a sort of $ 135k electric generator in a pinch.
Here’s hoping that Detroit Electric finds the same level of success as its forebearer. The EV market is wide open for new players. Tesla, while Detroit Electric’s main competition, has a large head start but by no means a monopoly. Fisker is dead in the water, GM and Toyota are pursuing hybrids, and Nissan is seemingly content selling low-end electric vehicles.
The SP:01 will hit the production lines this August. The price starts at $ 135,000.
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B-Class Electric Drive the first true Mercedes electric vehicle, coming to US in 2014
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Mercedes has revealed its first electric vehicle for the US here at the New York International Auto Show: the B-Class Electric Drive. The German company has added a 28-kWh lithium ion battery pack to its standard fuel-powered (and slightly bulbous) B-Class compact, and it has seen fit to update the interior styling fairly extensively for the occasion. Mercedes says that the battery will offer 115 miles of range on a charge, and that it can charge up to a 60 mile range in less than two hours and up to full capacity in four hours using a 240-volt power connection (no information is available yet on how long it will take on a regular wall socket). The battery pack is placed underneath the floor of the car — rather than the trunk like some…
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Who Needs Waves?: The Kymera Electric Bodyboard
Author: James Cliff
This is the Kymera electric bodyboard. It doesn’t need Mother Nature’s sissy wave power because it has an electric engine and battery. It’s basically a lay-down jet-ski, and I was actually pretty impressed with its speed. They’re currently a Kickstarter project though so if you want one you’re gonna have to cough up at least $ 2,500 (and hope a bunch of other people do too). That’s a little out of my watersports budget at the moment. My budget is more along the lines of an inflatable pool and two of those foam noodles to beat each other with American Gladiators style, and I already have the noodles in the closet. I get to be Nitro though.
Hit the jump for their Kickstarter video.
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Tesla Model S: Elon Musk’s sedan tries to take electric cars mainstream
Author: Randy Miller
The concept of electric automobiles is not a new one, but Tesla Motors and its creator Elon Musk are bringing a whole brand-new frame of mind to the area– the company’s Design S sedan couples the eco-friendly electric engine with performance and luxury that has actually mostly eluded electric automobiles so far. Follow in addition to the tale of the Design S below, from its announcement back in late 2011 to our two-day test drive up the California coastline, and beyond.
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Alt-week 12.15.12: rivers on Titan, electric handcuffs and crashing into the moon
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Alt-week has a look at the very best science and alternative tech tales from the last seven days.
Area, it’s the last frontier, where no-one can hear you shout in frustration at not understanding who the bad guy of Star Trip: Into Darkness is, as well as where HALF of our stories take spot this week. NASA’s planning to crash satellites into the moon, somebody’s patented an electo-shock handcuff and there’s a river on Titan that you wouldn’t wish to canoe-down. This is alt-week.
