Transport News
03/11/2011 - The EU-India Sustainable Transport Matchmaking event will take place in Delhi from 3rd to 6th December 2011 during Urban Mobility India (UMI).
02/09/2011 - On August 31 PRESS4TRANSPORT came to its end. All its successful results and achievements will be soon available.
30/08/2011 - If you’ve got a 2011 Nissan Leaf SL you probably ordered it with the included $700 rapid charging port, capable of recharging its 24 kilowatt-hour battery pack to 80 percent full in a little under 30 minutes using an off-board rapid charger. But direct-current rapid charging stations using the Chademo protocol haven’t been adopted in the U.S., partly due to their size and cost among other reasons.
23/08/2011 - In what we see as a shrewd move to help keep Portland, Oregon at the forefront of the electric-car movement, the city has dedicated a full city block, called Electric Avenue, to electric vehicle charging.
19/08/2011 - Another shoe dropped today, revealing one more little piece of General Motors' electric-car strategy.
02/08/2011 - EV fans are probably sick of arguing the case for electric cars whenever someone brings up the old "well to wheels" scenario.
01/08/2011 - The TURBLOG_WW project team is glad to invite you to participate to the final workshop "Transferability of urban logistics concepts and practices from a worldwide perspective”, to be held in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) on 20th and 21st September 2011.
27/07/2011 - Inductive charging through the road is an impossibly futuristic dream, one not likely to be achieved in the near- to medium-term for road cars despite tests by Volvo and BMW, among others.
20/07/2011 - Consider today's collapse of electric car company Green Vehicles an object lesson in why it's a bad idea for cities to invest in the risky business of start-up car companies--perhaps especially start-up electric car companies.
14/07/2011 - Practically every car on the market today ships with the option of a built-in GPS unit, letting the driver go anywhere without supposedly getting lost. But while satellite navigation systems have got a whole lot smarter in recent years, they are designed to be used in a gasoline car - not an electric one.
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