Electric Cars Today December 16, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, development, economics, green living, public transporation.Tags: build your dreams, BYD, china, Electric cars, gujarat, India, oreva super, warren buffet
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December 15 marks the first day of mass-produced electric car sales IN CHINA, sticker price $21,900 (reasonable, I think) and done by a company called BYD or Build Your Dreams. The car can run 100km per charge, the battery can be recharged 4,000 times, a full recharge takes 7 hours but 10 minutes at a regular power outlet will recharge the battery 50%. Not bad for the first electric car out on the streets.
Smart American investors already know that Warren Buffet holds a 9.89% stake in the company.
The Oreva Group of Gujarat, India plans to introduce the Oreva Super electric car on schedule*. Oreva’s parent company is the Ajanta group which produces clocks and the Oreva Groups currently makes electric scooters. The Orvea Super is to be the group’s first car and perhaps the world’s cheapest. Some scholars find the project untenable as Oreva is pricing the lithium-battery or nickel-metal hydride car at $2,500, projecting it could run 124-155 miles on a single charge and fewer than few details beyond those presented are floating around the internet at this point. I will keep looking into this one.
*what the schedule actually is remains unclear
Obviously, I’m obsessed with Shai Agassi’s Project Better Place which is gaining ground in Hawaii, Austrailia, testing in Israel and Denmark and on the brink of changing the entire personal transportation business model by troubleshooting the single biggest holdup electric car takeover- the battery. Agassi is genius.
Past Travel Posts August 25, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in Uncategorized.Tags: Go Balls Deep, India, Jello, Nepal, Thailand, traveling
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By way of introduction, I spent the spring of 2008 in India, Nepal and Thailand. Although my team’s blog goballsdeep.wordpress.com didn’t accomplish its original goal of uniting all of the world’s blogging travelers, we did managed to organize a few. Through a combination of articles, poetry and even a few pictures, my buddy and I attempted to communicated some important messages of our trip through the wordpress forum into the bloggosphere. I posted under the name Jello because I was terrified of allowing my writing to be identified on the web. Some pieces are stronger than others which is appropriate as blogging and impressive article writing can happen over an extended period of time but when you’re traveling through Asia, time spent on the internet writing is less than our time spent live in active exploration of the unknown spaces. However, if the inclination exists, check it out- www.goballsdeep.wordpress.com – Marjorie opens the blog, Dev has posts and my stuff is at the bottom and the 2nd page.
Go big, Go Balls Deep, or go home…
