Japanese firm Eamex claims to have found new technology that will increase the average life span of a high-capacity lithium-ion battery to keep you going for over 10,000 recharges, at least 20 years. Eamex's technology was designed to be used in electric vehicles, but of course will at once be used in cell phones, laptops, and MP3 players.

The new techniques stabilize the electrodes and prevent the deterioration of tin, enabling the batteries to endure more charges. Lithium-ion batteries have a negative electrode with a tin-coated resin that accumulates lithium ions coming from the positive electrode. The positive electrode is made of silicon and tin and swells while generating the ions, repeated charging and discharging causes the binding between particles in the tin to weaken. Eamex's technology preserves the bond among those particles.

Element Hotel's world wide chain is installing electric vehicle charging stations for drivers of plugin electric vehicles

travelers will be able to locate charging stations and determine whether they are in use or unoccupied by using Google(TM) Maps,. Furthering Element's commitment to cleaner, greener travel, non-guests will also have access to the charging stations.

"At Element, we aim to provide greener options for our guests, and the charging stations are a perfect next step," the hotel company's Senior Vice President Brian McGuinness, said "Even guests who don't yet drive electric cars tell us that the charging stations are encouraging them to think about more sustainable alternatives, and that's very gratifying."

The ChargePoint(R) Networked Charging Station was developed by California innovator Coulomb Technologies. The devices are equipped with a universal plug-in for all kinds of electric vehicles, from cars and buses to electric bikes. Plug-in hybrid cars, expected to roll out over the next few years, are also compatible. To use the stations, guests will simply swipe a key fob, plug in, and charge up. Guests who pull up in electric or hybrid cars will also get VIP green carpet treatment with "Hybrid Preferred" parking spots closest to Element hotels' front doors.

Congratulations to FIU professor Dr. Philip Stoddard, voted in as South Miami’s new mayor Feb. 9, 2010
Mayor Stoddard drives an EV converted by Steve Clunn.

The biology professor and anti-nuclear activist entered the election just hours before filing closed.

He defeated incumbent Mayor Horace Feliu with 58 percent of the vote.

Feliu, who endorsed two new nuclear power plants 20 miles away from South Miami, has been accused of accepting campaign funding from FPL executives.

Stoddard told The Miami Herald that he did not have political ambitions, but he threw his hat in the ring “for all of us.”

An electric bus powered by Arotech’s Electric Fuel zinc air technology. Coupled with a pack of advanced ultra capacitors and an energy management system, the hybrid all electric bus has zero tailpipe emissions. An urban transit fleet based the Electric Fuel bus will not only improve the quality of the air – it will also help national security by reducing the dependence on imported fuel.

In recent tests the bus traveled 130-145 miles under typical city bus driving conditions, including stop and go, acceleration and constant speed. The average normal full day cycle for New York City buses is less than 90 miles. The Company believes that all-electric buses utilizing Electric Fuel's Co. Zinc-Air technology have sufficient range to offer a practical alternative to diesel-powered buses.

APET’s revolution centres upon how zinc air batteries can power EVs. The technology is proven on the small scale: hearing aid battery adverts dominate any Google search for “zinc air battery”.

Furthermore, as zinc air batteries need only zinc, air and water to produce electricity they are likely the most environmentally friendly ones around.

However, upscaling the technology from a hearing aid to a car has always been a problem. Until now.

Since the slurry can be in greater volume than the air electrode, the energy density is increased and more electricity is produced. McDougall expects the batteries to last much longer too, for up to 10,000 discharge/recharge cycles. The battery could also be repaired, by replacing failed parts such as the air electrode.

This electric camera car has been used in a number of major motion pictures such as SPIDERMAN II (Columbia Pic.), CONSTANTINE (Warner Bros.), KICKING & SCREAMING/Universal Pics and The AVIATOR just to name a few as well as television shows such as JAG/Paramount, WANTED/Warner Brothers just to name a few of those and not to mention a number of commercials.

Oh yeah! and it is really great for filming wild life.

Were asking everyone that receiving this to please print out a copy of this
attachment and take it to your EAA meeting and discus this new threat to the
EV industry. Obviously if you believe that you know the people responsible
for this crime we suggest that you contact your local law enforcement. There
is a substantial reward for anyone helping in the recovery of our stolen items.

Due to the nature of the robbery our insurance will not cover any of the
stolen items, most of these items were bought by our customers and we are
now responsible for replacing all of them.If you have the ability to post this file on your web site or any
publication that would be greatly appreciated, the more publicity on this
issue the better.

We did not have a security system in place so it was easy for these thieves
to walk in and out with no interruption, if you carry a large amount of
inventory as we did we suggest that you get a security system installed
immediately.

Together lets make this the last EV targeted robbery.

The list of items missing will be available on our web site tomorrow. http://www.electricbluemotors.com

Thank You,

Dustin Donahue,

Manager Direct:928-527-4662 ex: 201

Connect Tech International , Electric Blue Motors

Grassroots Electric Vehicles is a certified dealer of Electric Blue Motors

To charge his car, Thorn has a 10-kilowatt wind generator at his home. The windmill, which is tied to the grid so he can sell extra power or draw it on still days, cost him $28,000. Young has grid-tied rooftop photovoltaic panels that cost $23,000 to install. They each pay just $20 a month to stay connected to the grid, run their houses and charge electric cars. Without an alternative power system, you can still charge an electric car at home, but expect to see an additional $30 a month on your electric bill.

Batteries included
Thorn recently settled in with his first electric vehicle, a 1986 electric blue Nissan 300ZX with a 30-mile range. It has nearly a ton of lead-acid batteries under the hood and in what was once the back seat. After buying his windmill last year, Thorn had excess power. He shopped the Internet and found the $12,000 sports coupe from Florida EV specialist Greenshed Conversions and had the car shipped to East Bloomfield. Driving north with recharging stops would have taken too long.Thorn commutes over country roads six miles to Constellation Wines U.S. in Canandaigua from his Brace Road home and runs local errands in his EV.
When he turns his car key, the Nissan emits a steady frrp, frrp, frrp noise. “The electric hydraulic brake pump,” he explained. The car has no fan belts or accessory drives driven by an internal combustion engine. Turning onto Brace Road, Thorn’s EV behaves normally. But head up a steep hill, which can triple the load on the batteries, and the born-again Nissan clings to 40 miles an hour for dear life.
Sometimes at blind country intersections, Thorn rolls the driver window down and listens for oncoming cars before crossing. “I try to drive it like my Model A Ford,” said Thorn.

Going electric Thorn bought his car from Greenshed Conversions, a one-man shop near Fort Pierce, Fla. For around $20,000, depending on battery choice, Greenshed will take a vehicle, remove the gas engine and install the batteries, motor and electric components needed to go 100 percent electric.

During last summer’s gas crisis, Greenshed’s Steve Clunn could not keep up with demand.
“It was crazy. When it finally stopped, it was, ‘Thank God, I can catch my breath now,’” said Clunn.
He thinks of an EV conversion as environmentally sound.

“We’re keeping another (gas) car from being built by converting. The conversion will be good for another 100,000 miles,” he said.

Clunn sold Mark Thorn his Nissan after the first owner tired of the car. Some cars convert better than others. The Nissan, while aerodynamic, has a problem: “It is too heavy. But he (Thorn) got a really good deal,” said Clunn.

The 54-year-old Clunn began in EVs as a hobbyist and then quit his job last year to do conversions full time. “I started 14 years ago after the first Gulf War, and that was my reason — seeing overdependence on foreign oil and wanting to do something. I discovered then that this whole electric-car movement had been going on for years.”

Clunn touches on world politics, backyard wrench-turning, and high-energy physics all in support of EVs.

“Every dollar of gas you buy costs taxpayers another dollar or more to defend it with the wars we fight to keep it, another dollar to clean up the environment, and another dollar in health care to fix the impact on our health,” said Clunn.

Clunn usually advises simple, cheap setups in lightweight cars as daily drivers. This might produce sleepy performance but results in the lowest driving costs.

“Mark Thorn has the cheapest batteries you can get: six-volt lead-acid ... $2,500 for 26 batteries,” he said. If Thorn’s car goes 25,000 miles, that’s a dollar per 100 miles, a cost that won’t change with the fortunes of oil.

Newer lithium batteries are one-fifth the weight of lead-acid and have 10 times the life span.
High-tech lithium cells “are the absolute best battery, highest performance, highest cost,” Clunn said.
An EV needs some maintenance. “These (battery banks) are like Christmas tree lights, and as they age it’s sometimes hard to keep them going. A major short of some sort can knock one out.”

On the other hand, forget about oil changes, spark plugs and exhaust or emissions system repair.
Whatever electric parts you choose to juice up your old wheels, they are likely to be made in the U.S.A., Clunn noted.
“The motors are from Illinois. The controllers are being made in Texas, the batteries are American,” he said. “What if every town in America began converting cars headed to junkyards to electric vehicles instead? What an idea that is!”

The setting up of a low emission shipping zone follows US academic research which showed that pollution from the world's 90,000 cargo ships leads to 60,000 deaths a year in the US alone and costs up to $330bn per year in health costs from lung and heart diseases. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates the buffer zone, which could be in place by next year, will save more than 8,000 lives a year with new air quality standards cutting sulphur in fuel by 98%, particulate matter by 85% and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80%.

The new study by the Danish government's environmental agency adds to this picture. It suggests that shipping emissions cost the Danish health service almost £5bn a year, mainly treating cancers and heart problems. A previous study estimated that 1,000 Danish people die prematurely each year because of shipping pollution. No comprehensive research has been carried out on the effects on UK coastal communities, but the number of deaths is expected to be much higher.

Full article click here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution

CBS Announced today March 19 2009
After touring the Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona, California today, President Obama announced an outlay of $2.4 billion is stimulus funds meant to encourage the production of next generation plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and advanced battery components for such vehicles.

“I am announcing that the Department of Energy is launching a $2 billion competitive grant program under the Recovery Act that will spark the manufacturing of the batteries and parts that run these cars, build or upgrade the factories that will produce them, and in the process, create thousands of jobs right here in America,” the president said.

He added that the government is “making a $400 million down-payment on the infrastructure necessary to get these cars on the road; and because these cars won’t leave the showroom unless consumers buy them, the Recovery Act includes a new tax credit of $7,500 to encourage Americans to plug one in at home.”

“Show us that your idea or your company is best-suited to meet America’s challenges, and we will give you a chance to prove it,” the president said, adding that “every company that wants a shot at these tax dollars has to prove their worth.”

PRESIDENT OBAMA: It is good to be back in California. It’s always nice to get out of Washington for a little while and recharge your batteries. You know a little bit about that here. And I want to thank the folks here at the Electric Vehicle Technical Center for the tour we just had.

Yesterday, I was in Costa Mesa talking with folks about this economic downturn we’re in – a downturn that’s hitting this state as much as any. One in ten Californians are out of work and actively looking for jobs. And the foreclosure crisis has had a devastating impact on Southern California in particular. But Californians aren’t just bearing the brunt of this crisis – you’re doing what needs to be done to overcome it.

This workshop is a perfect example of that. Day by day, test by test, trial by painstaking trial; the scientists, engineers, and workers at this site are developing the ideas and innovations that our future depend upon. It is your ingenuity that will help create the new jobs and new industries of tomorrow.

It isn’t easy. There are days, I’m sure, when progress seems fleeting, and days when it feels like you’re making no progress at all. But often, our greatest discoveries are born not in a flash of brilliance, but in the crucible of a deliberate effort over time. And often, they take something more than imagination and dedication alone – often they take an investment from government. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. That’s how we were able to launch a world wide web. And it’s how we’ll build the clean energy economy that’s the key to our competitiveness in the 21st century.

We’ll do this because we know that the nation that leads on energy will be the nation that leads the world in the 21st century. That’s why, around the world, nations are racing to lead in these industries of the future. Germany is leading the world in solar power. Spain generates almost 30 percent of its power by harnessing the wind, while we manage less than one percent. And Japan is producing the batteries that currently power American hybrid cars.

So the problem isn’t a lack of technology. You’re producing the technology right here. The problem is that, for decades, we have avoided doing what must be done as a nation to turn challenge into opportunity. As a consequence, we import more oil today than we did on 9/11. The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008. And even as our economy has been transformed by new forms of technology, our electric grid looks largely the same as it did half a century ago.

So we have a choice to make. We can remain one of the world’s leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that will allow us to become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy. We can let climate change continue to go unchecked, or we can help stem it. We can let the jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right here in America and lay the foundation for our lasting prosperity.

That is what my recovery plan does. It will create or save 3.5 million jobs – nearly 400,000 of them right here in California – in part by making investments in areas critical to our long-term growth.

And that is the forward-thinking purpose of the budget I have submitted to Congress. It’s a budget that makes hard choices about where to save and where to spend; that makes overdue investments in education, health care, and yes, energy – investments that will catalyze innovation and industry, creating green jobs and launching clean, renewable energy companies right here in California.

In the next three years, we will double this nation’s supply of renewable energy. We have also made the largest investment in basic research funding in American history – an investment that will spur not only new discoveries in energy, but breakthroughs in science and technology.

We will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks that are built right here in America.

We will soon lay down thousands of miles of power lines that can carry new energy to cities and towns across this country. We will put Americans to work making our homes and buildings more efficient so that we can save billions of dollars on our energy bills, just like you’ve done in California for decades. And we will put one million plug-in hybrid vehicles on America’s roads by 2015.

Because these cars of tomorrow require the batteries of tomorrow, I am announcing that the Department of Energy is launching a $2 billion competitive grant program under the Recovery Act that will spark the manufacturing of the batteries and parts that run these cars, build or upgrade the factories that will produce them, and in the process, create thousands of jobs right here in America.

Show us that your idea or your company is best-suited to meet America’s challenges, and we will give you a chance to prove it. And just because I’m here today doesn’t exempt all of you from that challenge – every company that wants a shot at these tax dollars has to prove their worth.

We are also making a $400 million down-payment on the infrastructure necessary to get these cars on the road; and because these cars won’t leave the showroom unless consumers buy them, the Recovery Act includes a new tax credit of $7,500 to encourage Americans to plug one in at home.

True to form, California has already forged ahead with its own plans rather than wait for Washington. It’s fitting that the state home to the first freeway and the first gas station is already at work devising the next freeway and the next gas station. This “green freeway” you’re planning with Oregon and Washington would link your states with a network of rest stops that allow you to do more than just grab a cup of coffee; but also charge your car, refuel it with hydrogen or biofuels, or swap out a battery in the time it takes to fill a gas tank. Charging stations have begun to pop up around downtown San Francisco, and that city has joined with San Jose and Oakland with the vision of becoming the “electric vehicle capital of the United States.”

Here at Southern California Edison, and all across the country, in factories and laboratories, at the Big Three and at small startups, these innovations are taking place right now. In Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in California, we are seeing exciting developments in this field as hardworking men and women are already laying the groundwork for this new industry. Even as our American automakers are undergoing a painful recalibration, they are retooling and reimagining themselves into an industry that can compete and win, because millions of jobs depend on it.

This is the critical work you’re doing. But it’s just one component of what must be a comprehensive energy plan. That’s why we are making an $11 billion investment in upgrading our power grid, so that it can carry renewable energy from the far-flung places that harness or produce it to the cities that use it. That’s why we will create jobs retrofitting millions of homes and cutting energy use in federal buildings by one quarter, saving the American taxpayer $1.5 billion each year.

These are challenging times, but we know we can do this. It won’t come without cost, nor will it be easy. We’ve got 240 million cars already on the road. We’ve got to upgrade the world’s largest energy grid while it’s already in use. And other countries aren’t standing around and waiting for us; they are forging ahead with their own bold energy plans.

But we have faced tough challenges before. And at our best, we have never relied on hope and chance alone. Time and again, we have tapped those great American resources: industriousness and ingenuity. That, after all, is what California is all about. This is a state that has always drawn people who’ve had their eyes set on the horizon; who’ve always dreamed of a future that others thought beyond reach. That is the spirit that you are reclaiming here at the Electric Vehicle Test Center, and that is the spirit we need to reclaim all across this country. Thank you.

Larry Wexler aka Larry Lightning from Orlando Florida is competing for the automotive X-Prize http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/

He made a grand showing at the Battery Beach Blowout in in Jupiter, FL at Florida Atlantic University February 21st and 22nd, it can go over 50 mph on fully charged batteries 15 mph directly off the solar panels on a sunny day.
click here for video clip of Larry's solar cycle last year

Drive against global warming:
Solar taxi in India: click here to watch the video
Louis Palmer is traveling around the world without polluting it.
His three-wheel taxi with a gearless electric motor runs on twin 380 volt batteries that allow it to accelerate up to 90 kilometers per hour. They are charged from solar cells carried on a trailer.
www.solartaxi.com