President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled an expansion of U.S. government efforts to train military veterans for jobs in the solar power industry during a visit to Utah. The administration announced a new goal of training 75,000 people to enter the solar work force by 2020. That is an increase from a goal announced last
The latest zero-emission Nissan LEAF can be driven in London with unlimited mileage for less than the price of a one day, all-zone London Travelcard The Hertz Corporation has introduced the latest 100% electric Nissan LEAF model to its fleet at its main London locations, providing tourists and local residents with an affordable and sustainable
Across the country, thousands of high school students will be completing their sophomore year of high school. Many of them are about to turn 16. Many of them want a car. Many of them have activities like after-school sports, community service, SAT test prep, chess club, and possibly even a job. Many of them have
What blew me away most about my week-long test drive of the all-electric 2015 Kia Soul EV was despite the boxy exterior, booming sound system and man-size hamster ads that scream BOOMPF-BOOMPF-BOOMPF, DOOIT-DOOIT-DOOIT, what stood out most was the quiet, ultra-smooth ride. Surely those young ‘uns stopped alongside me at red lights thinking to themselves
Paul Clinton from Automotive Fleet takes the new Volkswagen e-Golf for a spin, providing both a video & article. Volkswagen e-Golf. The short video above discusses most of the e-Golf’s features: charging & range, price, etc. As you will hear in the video, the e-Golf is not available in all 50 states. Why? Wish we
Renault ZOE owner Séverin Groisne authored a post that appeared on the Renault-Nissan blog. The brief article focuses on exactly what the title states: Five Reasons To Choose An EV And here are those 5 reasons, along with a brief intro from Groisne: When it comes to electric cars, it’s very difficult to find balanced
BMW dives into the electric vehicle waters with the first of a new dedicated model range. Our view: All too frequently these days automotive manufacturers profess to have invented/enhanced/created (delete where you see fit) the next great revolution in motoring. In many cases it is merely a misuse of the very word revolutionary, and at
The rate of global temperature rise mayhave hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future “Temperatures have been flat for 15 years—nobody can properly explain it,” the Wall Street Journal says. “Global warming ‘pause’ may last for 20 more years, and Arctic sea ice has already started to recover,” the
GMG becomes largest fund yet known to pull out of coal, oil and gas companies in a move chair Neil Berkett calls a ‘hard-nosed business decision’ justified on ethical and financial grounds The Guardian Media Group (GMG) is to sell all the fossil fuel assets in its investment fund of over £800m, making it the
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to show people Oil wells Depleting oil fields are yet another symptom of ecological overshoot as seen at the Kern River Oil Field in California ‘I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call
