Audi’s e-Tron became the first hybrid to win Le Mans, and saves the planet at the same time. Developing highly effective flywheel technology, Audi engineers may have created an excellent alternative to lugging a lot of heavy batteries around. Toyota also had 2 entries with electric hybrid systems that are capacitor based. One of them [...]
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We are pleased to announce that a number of Electric Yacht Owners have already joined the EY User Group at this nifty blog on all electric watercraft, but heavy with info on sailing auxiliaries. http://www.electricseas.org http://www.electricseas.org/group/electricyacht
Progress in Electric Automobiles is important to our success for two reasons: 1) The acceptance of electric cars increases the visibility and validity of propulsion systems that do their jobs without making noise and vibrations, or spewing greenhouse gasses. 2) The need for lower cost high performance batteries is growing and manufacturing levels are [...]
This is my baby, Tranquility, a Columbia 29 Sloop, re-rigged as a cutter. She’s a full keel that sails easy and true, built in 1965 an old girl that is in need of a lot of love and devotion. I found her in 2005 and purchased her in May 2006, lived aboard her in Provincetown [...]
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