Neerav Bhatt's blog: electric Australian transportation & sustainable homes
Several Australian hire car companies now loan out electric vehicles (EV) including sedans, hatchbacks, SUV’s and more. The following details which car rental companies in Australia offer electric cars as well as the brands and models they... Read More
What would happen if the Australian national electricity grid collapsed or a war broke out in the Asia-Pacific, blocking cargo ships carrying liquid fuel from reaching us? Australians people and businesses rely on electricity, water & liquid... Read More
GoGet is an Australian collaborative consumption everything as a service (XaaS) success story which has provided car share as a service for over a decade. Collaborative consumption reinvents the concept of sharing using networked technologies to enable... Read More
The aviation industry is going through a turbulent time, which has led it to look at a wide range of technologies and alternative fuels as ways for airlines to lower costs and improve efficiency. Current headwinds in aviation include factors such as... Read More
During research for a previous in-depth article about electric cars I was disappointed to find the $220,000+ Tesla Roadster marginally outside my disposable income bracket. In comparison the Wisper 805FE Folding Electric Bike loaned to me for review by... Read More
With all the buzz surrounding cars like the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster, not to mention hybrid petrol-electrics like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid, you’d think that electricity-powered cars were a relatively recent... Read More
I recently read a very interesting book Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives as part of background research into a feature article I was writing about Electric Cars for GEARE... Read More
I’ve been test driving the new Ford Fiesta Econetic Diesel car for the last few weeks to see if it lives upto it’s claim to save you money because it’s “Australia’s most fuel-efficient car” and whether it is a... Read More
GUEST ARTICLE: This is a very confusing time for car buyers.With all of the talk of ‘peak oil‘, carbon pollution reduction schemes and climate change you may be concerned that petrol will just disappear from the pumps – or worse,... Read More
We need to find an environmentally friendly replacement for the internal combustion engine used to power the world’s cars that’s sustainable in the long term before peak oil sends fuel prices rocketing and to help combat climate change.... Read More