Ethanol

This week on the EVcast Power Hour we talk about the positioning of electric vehicles in the market. What strategies are the car makers doing to enter the market with electric vehicles and what can we learn from how hybrids entered the market? Nissan is now taking orders.  I think the Swiss have been smoking some diesel. Pot cars of Cannidas. Hay man is that your car dude? Far out Ah? Hydrogen is explosive. Who knew? 

Iowa - The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol
Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year, which is 26% of the nation’s total (Source). This is of course due to the large amount of corn production in Iowa, enabled by ample rainfall and rich topsoil.

This week on the EVcast Power Hour we talk about Ohio's return to trying to establish the worlds fastest electric car with their famed Buckeye Bullet electric vehicle. And I think this time they might have done it. We also talk about a high school built electric vehicle that will get somewhere around 300 miles to the gallon equivalent. Wow.

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General Motors, for all its hype about the Volt (which won’t run on ethanol), has announced that E85 (ethanol, up to 85%) is the

The Gregor Tartan
“Gather round you whiskey drinkers, we will never be for long.
We will always have the comfort of our friend John Barley Corn.”

This week on the EVcast Power Hour we talk about Toyota's Prius celebrating its 15th month on top of the leader board of Japanese auto sales. Eric and Joe explore the advertisers of Euro based Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology International magazine to familiarize ourselves with developing European companies and to see if we learn something new.

The following is the second of two posts based on a recent paper published under the same title in the journal Environment, Development, and Sustainability. I was the lead author for the article. The other two authors were Charles Hall and Bobby Powers. Part 1 of this series can be found at this link.