Fisker’s intentions for the former General Motors plant located in Wilmington, Delaware, have changed several times since the automaker bought the plant with the plan of producing the Atlantic sedan at the location – and now things seem less certain than ever before.
Leftlane reported about two weeks ago that it might not be cost effective to produce the Atlantic sedan in Delaware, and it seems based on new reports from several local news outlets via Autoblog that those financial restraints are continuing to … More
A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.
Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders†to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so  … More
Electric cars are only as green as the power plants that fuel them.
As a result, they are far greener in some parts of the country than in others, according to a report issued Monday by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In California – which derives most of its electricity from natural gas plants, nuclear reactors, renewable power sources and hydroelectric dams – an electric car produces the same amount of global warming emissions as … More
How to escape a $400 traffic ticket with the power of physics
A UCSD physicist was able to argue his way out of a traffic ticket with a bit of audacity and four pages worth of complex mathematics.
Dmitri Krioukov, a senior research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, was issued a ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. Rather than eat the $400 charge, Krioukov decided to fight  … More