Green license plates in Ontario come with privileges
Canada’s province of Ontario has a plan that, by 2020, 1 of every 20 cars on the road should be an electric vehicle. To encourage drives to adopt hybrids and electric vehicles, a new license plate is being offered for green vehicles.
Vehicles bearing the new plates will be eligible for a number of special perks, including use of recharging stations and special parking spaces. But
Nissan doubling battery capacity by 2015
Nissan has announced that Nissan and Renault electric cars will have double today’s battery capacity by 2015. That means that the range for cars like the Leaf should double by that time as well.
The big change that will bring about this leap in battery capacity is a transition to an NMC (lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode) battery. The company is in the late stages of
Superfreaks Tackle Climate Change
A recent article in the New Yorker reviews Superfreakonomics, the latest book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of the best-selling Freakonomics.
Reviewer Elizabeth Kolbert makes the Steves sound like glib amateurs who are simply out of their depth. When they assert the solution to global warming lies at the end of an eighteen-mile-long hose that would shoot sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, thereby mimicking
