For our latest episode of the Green Overdrive show, we took Mitsubishi’s all-electric i MiEV out for a full day of driving — on the highway, in the city, searching for a charge, and packing it with people (and stuff). Here are our impressions: Read more »
For our latest Green Overdrive show, we bring you our ride in one of Tesla’s electric Model S Betas (a burgundy beauty), and we show you how an electric vehicle designed from the ground-up handles. Bonus: we interview Tesla’s Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen. Read more »
If you thought renting out a room in a house via Airbnb was cool, try renting our someone’s car. That’s what Getaround does, and for this week’s Green Overdrive, we sit down with Getaround to check out the company’s brand new, yet-to-be unveiled, iPhone app. Read more »
Volvo has started producing its all-electric C30, and will start shipping cars to fleets (mostly under leases) in Europe by the Summer. Watch our video test drive of the C30 Electric and our interview with Volvo’s President of Special Vehicles. Read more »
For this week’s Green Overdrive show, we test drive Lit Motor’s electric scooter that can carry a large box (or a person) and can fold down into almost half its driving size. Read more »
GreenRoad’s greener, safer driving technology has gotten another round of investment. The startup, which is backed by Al Gore and Richard Branson’s funds, as well as Benchmark Capital and others, has raised another $13 million and brought on new CEO Jim Heeger. Read more »
The exec formerly in charge of Apple’s famously successful in-store experience, is paving a new path for electric vehicle company Tesla Motors. Tesla’s VP of Worldwide Sales and Experience, George Blankenship, shows us around Tesla’s first experiential store on Santana Row in San Jose, Calif. Read more »
Safer driving isn’t only better for your car and your personal well being, it can also lead to more fuel efficient driving. For this week’s episode of the Green Overdrive show we check in with GreenRoad, which helps companies drive more safely and fuel efficiently. Read more »
Entrepreneur Al Bullock electrified his classic VW and has been driving it around the streets of Livermore, California for the past three years. For this week’s Green Overdrive show we interview Bullock and go for a test drive in his e-VW! Read more »
This week’s Green Overdrive is the greasiest yet! We go on a grease pick up and factory tour with the Got Grease crew, which makes a living off of recycling cooking grease from restaurants and hotels and sells it to biodiesel producers. Read more »
It may not be the greenest battery-powered car we’ve driven (at between 21 to 25 MPG) but it’s got the performance of a Porsche, but with some nifty green features, like when you’re driving around 80 mph the power kicks off and you’re basically coasting. Read more »
After 6 months and almost 30 Green Overdrive shows, we’re taking the excuse of the new year to look back on some of my favorite — and some of my not-so-favorite — test drives. Read more »
Volvo’s got a reputation for building some of the safest cars around, and as Lennart Stegland, President of Volvo special vehicles, tells us that applies to electric vehicles, too. Read more »
People Power has made a lot of changes from its start as a would-be home energy management device maker. Now it’s got a platform that could work in homes and offices — an example of how it and other startups may need to change to ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Here’s our first SUV on the Green Overdrive show, where if it’s green we drive it. For this week’s episode we check out a Ford Escape Hybrid, which is one of 20 prototypes that Ford built for its utility partners. Read more »
All hail the off-road electric 2-wheeler! Using basic bicycle parts, a hub motor, and a battery pack, Diggler’s electric scooters can go 20-miles on a charge, and are being used by off-road and on-road enthusiasts to travel locally without pedal-power or a gas engine. Read more »
While we’ve driven a lot of prototype cars for GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, the Lincoln MKZ hybrid 2011 in this week’s episode was one of the most luxurious models that we’ve driven to date. Read more »
Saul Griffith, inventor and multiple entrepreneur, is knee-deep in a new electric bicycle project: Onya Cycles! For this week’s episode of Green Overdrive we hung out with Griffith and took the bikes for a ride. Who needs a car when you have pedals and batteries? Read more »
The Fiat Research Center calls it the Panda because it’s small and cute, but the first thing I noticed about the hybrid fuel cell, electric car called the Panda Fiat, is that it shoots out water underneath it when it stops and starts. Read more »
Hey green soccer moms, a new electric mini van is coming your way. Taiwanese automaker Yulon, with the help of AC Propulsion, have converted the luxury mini van the Luxgen MPV into the first 7-seater electric mini van. Read more »
For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we go electric off-roading with Kane Fortune, President of Fortune Hanebrink. Read more »
For this week’s episode of the GigaOM TV Green Overdrive show, comedian Jay Leno showed us around his solar powered-garage, which houses three 1900′s era electric cars: the 1906 Baker electric car, the 1916 Owen Magnetic, and the 1925 steam-powered Doble. Read more »
For this week’s episode of the GigaOM TV Green Overdrive show, comedian Jay Leno showed us around his solar powered-garage, which houses three 1900s-era electric cars: the 1906 Baker electric car, the 1916 Owen Magnetic, and the 1925 steam-powered Doble. Read more »
Check out our latest Green Overdrive video where we drive around LA in a Tesla Roadster 2.5, which goes 0 to 60 in a slammin’ 3.7 seconds. We’ve even got a bonus tip: how to get in and out of a Roadster in a short skirt. Read more »
Check out our latest Green Overdrive video where we drive around LA in a Tesla Roadster 2.5, which goes 0 to 60 in a slammin’ 3.7 seconds. We’ve even got a bonus tip: how to get in and out of a Roadster in a short skirt. Read more »
While electric vehicle maker ZAP has had its fair share of less-than-stellar press, we took a road trip up to Santa Rosa to check out what the company is actually producing. We found a manual SUV electric taxi, a low-speed Zappy scooter and Al Unser Jr.! Read more »
For the latest episode of our Green Overdrive video show we checked out Jeff McCabe’s awe-inspiring electric porsche. He stripped out 1,700 lbs from the car — from the gear box to the stock lights — before adding in the lithium ion batteries. Read more »
Wrightspeed’s CEO Ian Wright, one of the original founding team at Tesla, shows us the ins and outs of his X1 electric high performance car prototype soon after he passes Tesla’s Roadster on the Laguna Seca racetrack. Read more »
We got a rare opportunity to take the Think City — an all-electric boxy plastic-bodied car that will be available to consumers in the U.S. in 2011 — out for a test drive. It’s made of plastic. And it’s fantastic! Check it out. Read more »
We took (arguably) the most affordable, mainstream, soon-to-be-released all-electric vehicle the Nissan LEAF out for a test drive for this week’s episode of Green Overdrive (where if it’s green we’ll drive it.) Read more »
The guy who’s flying around the track in our latest episode of Green Overdrive makes “the most interesting man in the world,” look rather dull. That would be Tim Collins, 70-year-old investment banker and founder of electric vehicle startup Kleenspeed. Read more »
You might love your Prius but you might love it just a little bit more if you could plug it into an outlet and it got 100 MPG. Enter Green Gears garage, which for several thousand dollars can convert a second-generation Prius into a plug-in hybrid. Read more »
Watch us cruise around in Mitsubishi’s boxy electric iMiev for the latest episode of Green Overdrive. The car has been on the road in Japan for the last year, and will head to the U.S. in 2011. Because if it’s green, we’ll drive it! Read more »
For this week’s episode of Green Overdrive we charge up a plug-in Prius via a Coulomb charge point. Electrified goodness! Read more »
On this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show (where if it’s green, we’ll drive it) I take Brammo’s electric motorcycle out for a spin. The e-bike costs close to $8,000, has a max speed of 60 mph, and a range of 40 miles. Read more »
Green car DIY-ers of the world, unite! In these week’s episode of Green Overdrive we meet up with green car fanatics that have pimped out their gas-guzzlers into gems of sustainability: the Blackbird plug-in, the biofuel burnin’ Eco-Benz (hemp included) and the all-electric eeVee Motors. Read more »
Prior to the launch of the iPad bloggers started thinking about how convenient the slate might be for blogging. I wouldn’t want to use the iPad as my only blogging tool, but I admit I am finding it more useful than I thought it would be. Read more »
During the next few years, EV and plug-in choices will multiply and the newness of being propelled by an electric motor will wear off. When that time comes, you can expect potential buyers to start paying closer attention to the technology packages and convenience features ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Are you ready to trade the gas pump for a power cord? Over the next few years, drivers will have to contend with that question when a handful of new electric cars take to the road.
Nissan’s as-yet unnamed electric vehicle (EV), which the automaker plans ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The big business news — whether you’re a green geek or not — in the last week has been the auto industry. GM dominated headlines, as it emerged from bankruptcy and brought back the brash Bob Lutz as “vice chairman responsible for all creative elements of ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
