Tesla's Musk Says Model S Sold Out

Always good to see Elon talk so enthusiasticly about my passion; electric vehicles. Go check this out and try the (free) Bloomberg TV+ for iPad app while you're at it.

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Tesla's Musk Says Model S Sold Out
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, says the electric car maker will turn a profit in 2013

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Article: 50 Companies Team to Create Open Source EV

An open source electric vehicle is not something I read about everyday. This one was constructed with a total of 50 different industry and science partners, a great feat in itself to come up with such a vehicle with so many participants in just 12 months. 

Congratulations to all who are involved on this job well done, hope to see this go to larger scale production and hit the streets.

50 Companies Team to Create Open Source EV
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/10/meet-the-one-modular-ev-created-by-fifty-companies/

The StreetScooter is a $7,000 EV with a 74 mph top speed and an 80-mile range. It relies on leased batteries and uses a heat pump for heating and air conditioning, and shipping company DHL has already ordered 3,500 of them — but the most interesting thing about the vehicle is how it came to be.

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Electric Vehicle - Nissan develops 10-minute electric car charger

Charging an electric vehicle can take a long time if you have to wait for it, though most studies suggest that most of the consumers will charge their vehicles while at home or work and charge their car in the 90% of the time they don't use it.

Fast charging is another option, where untill now you could get 0-80% charge in under 30 minutes, Nissan has developped a technology that will take just 10 minutes. It might be a while before we see this to become common technology in the EV industry, but we're bound to see this, or a competing technology, surface and smoothen our longer EV rides.

Nissan develops 10-minute electric car charger
http://electric-vehicles-cars-bikes.blogspot.com/2011/10/nissan-develops-10-minute-electric-car.html

The breakthrough reportedly came by changing the electrode inside a capacitor from carbon to tungsten oxide and vanadium oxide to improve power, reports Asean Automotive News.

Batteries charged using the updated system were complete in ten minutes, with no significant effect on storage capacity or voltage, the reports said.

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