Electric Car FAQs: Is It Still Worth Buying A Hybrid?
Electric cars — and electrified or hybrid cars! — are mostly like regular cars. You step on the pedal on the right and the car goes, you turn the wheel and the car turns, and the […]
Texan Of The Year Finalist, Elon Musk, Has Been Quietly Helping People In Need
The Dallas Morning News has reported that Elon Musk is a finalist for the Texan of the Year award and shared some of his philanthropic work in Texas since moving there. I think it’s been either […]
Austin Seems Likely To “Megaboom” As Elon Musk Predicts
In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk and Rogan were talking about Austin, Texas. Musk said that the town was going to be very successful in the future, forecasting a “megaboom.” He also made […]
First Electric School Buses Deployed in Texas
Everman ISD receives three 100% Electric School Buses, Manufactured by Blue Bird, the first of their kind in the state Everman, TX (December 8, 2020) — The first zero-emissions electric school buses in the state of […]
Tesla’s Elon Musk Made The Day Of An Austin Restaurant Owner: “Elon Musk in my restaurant — my hero!”
Kevin Le, the owner of 1618 Asian Fusion restaurant in Austin, Texas, was in the middle of a staff meeting in his office when he found out that Elon Musk was dining at his restaurant. Spectrum […]
Tesla Terafactory Shows Up On Tesla Navigation Maps 👀👀
Austin Tesla Club recently noticed something new showing up on Tesla Navigation Maps. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, previously announced that the company was scouting locations for its next gigafactory (or terafactory), and he and others have […]
How EV Charging Station Networks Compare, City To City (Maps)
Originally published on CleanTechnica.com. Traveling in the Nissan LEAF bubble has lifted me out of the worse situations of smelling gas — as I do not have to refuel at gas stations. I do think that […]
Tesla Recruiting New Sales People In Texas
Tesla appears to be recruiting new sales staff in Texas — and also in Florida, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Georgia — going by a recent post in the Tesla Motors Club forum. Does this […]
90% Of GOP Convention Delegates In Texas Support Tesla’s Direct Sales Model
Originally published on CleanTechnica. Around 90% of the more than 8,000 state GOP convention delegates in Texas last week endorsed the idea that Tesla should be able to sell directly to customers in the state, according […]
Dallas Becomes The First US City To Possess A Hybrid-Electric Streetcar That Can Run Without Overhead Wires
The city of Dallas, Texas, is now the first city in the US to possess a hybrid-electric streetcar that can run without an overhead wire-connection — in this case, the streetcar in question makes use of […]
Free Nighttime Electricity At Night In Texas?
[Update] This is an important comment from reader JimBouton: I was actually on this plan for about a year. It would be generous to say that it was a rip off. TXU misleads you by not including […]
Texas Central: High-Speed Rail Line Will Produce Over $36 Billion In Economic Benefits
More than $36 billion in economic benefits will result from the development of the planned high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas, according to an independent study commissioned by the developer Texas Central. The new study […]
Dallas City Council Gives Preliminary Approval To New Light-Rail Line
The City Council of Dallas, Texas, has gone ahead and given preliminary approval to the creation of a new light-rail line intended to improve transportation options in the city’s downtown core, according to recent reports. This […]
Top EV Cities In US — 10 Charts
Some of the factors contributing to the relatively fast adoption of electric vehicles (EV) in some American metropolitan markets have been identified and characterized by a new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). […]
City of Houston Saving $110,000/Year From 27 Electric Vehicles
We’ve written about it many times: electric cars are much, much cheaper to run. Based on the average price of electricity in the US, gas at $3.50/gallon, and the average miles driven per year, the Nissan […]