Focus BEV battery will be liquid cooled
The all-new Ford Focus Electric, which debuts in the U.S. late next year and in Europe in 2012, will be powered by an advanced lithium-ion battery that utilizes heated and cooled liquid to help maximize battery life and driving range.
What if the electric grid were 100% coal?![]() The solar array on this Boulder, Colo. business contrasts sharply with the coal plant smokestacks that tower over it. [Photo Credit: Christof Demont-Heinrich]
In many cases, probably most, a combination of Technology, Foreign Oil Dependence, Economic, and Environmental considerations inspires people to leap onto the rapidly growing EV-Express. The most polluted places on earth![]() Air pollution kills tens of thousands annually in smog-choked Southern California. [Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Licensed Photo] It often seems as if most people don't care about air pollution. This despite the fact that it kills tens of thousands of people in the U.S. every year. This might be because people don't see air pollution -- although, of course, all it takes to see air pollution is a diesel powered truck roaring by. Whatever the reason that the real dangers of air pollution don't appear to register for many Americans, there are some places in the U.S., and in the world, where air pollution is so bad, it's impossible to ignore. New Jersey's newest solar-charged driver![]() A lifelong fan of solar, Phil Blackwood got a MINI E and then put up a 9.4 kW home solar system so that he could power it -- and his home -- with sun. [Photo Courtesy of Phil Blackwood]
On the drive home from work, he’d eye homes with solar and wish he had a sleek, shiny PV array for his Lincroft, New Jersey home. However, while many solar gawkers jealously eye others’ home solar systems from inside a gasoline-powered car, for the past year or so Blackwood wasn’t driving past local PV systems in an average vehicle. He was zipping by in a car that can actually run on the energy produced by a home solar array – a MINI E, an electric prototype version of BMW’s MINI. Yes, EVs can plug into renewable energy![]() This picture of a Roadster speeding by a wind farm is the first thing visitors to the Tesla Motors web site see. [Photo Credit: Tesla Motors]
Unlike gasoline powered cars, which will never have the capacity to plug into wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and other forms of renewable energy, EVs can tap these air pollution free sources directly. This is a truly radical advantage for EVs. |






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People are attracted to electric cars for four basic reasons:![Air pollution kills tens of thousands annually in smog-choked Southern California. [Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Licensed Photo] la-smog](/images/stories/news_features/la-smog.jpg)
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Phil Blackwood had been celebrating solar from afar for years.![This picture of a Roadster speeding by a wind farm is the first thing visitors to the Tesla Motors web site see. [Photo Credit: Tesla Motors] tesla-roadster-windmills](/images/stories/blog_photos/tesla-roadster-windmills.jpg)
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