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Green Overdrive Video: The EV Honda Fit
About a decade ago Honda developed one of the earliest electric cars, but like many big auto manufacturers it decided to ditch those plans. Now with the return to popularity of the electric car this...
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Green Overdrive Video: Mercedes F-Cell Fuel Cell Car
For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we got a chance to test drive Mercedes fuel cell car, the F-Cell. Mercedes only made 200 of these vehicles and is renting them out to...
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Green Overdrive Show’s 2010 Year In Review
After 6 months and close to 30 shows, GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show is celebrating the coming of 2011 with a year-end wrap. Here’s our year in review for electric vehicles in 2010, including some...
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Green Overdrive: VW’s Electric Blue-E-Motion Golf!
Volkswagen’s got close to two years before it will launch its all-electric Blue-e-motion Golf car, but GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show got a chance to take the car to the streets recently in Los...
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Green Overdrive Video: The RAV4 EV (Via Tesla, Toyota)!
In one of the most interesting electric vehicle partnerships of 2010, Tesla and Toyota announced last year that they would jointly build an electric RAV4, combining Toyota’s SUV with Tesla’s battery...
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Green Overdrive Video: Porsche Hybrid Test Drive!
Porsche’s Cayenne S Hybrid might not be the greenest car on the road (it gets about 25 MPG), but it can drive on electric power at under 40 MPH and also has a fun no-power coasting mode at higher...
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Green Overdrive Video: The Electric Mini!
BMW doesn’t have plans to commercially sell its electric Minis, but boy is the car fun to drive. For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we drove an electric Mini around LA, and...
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Green Overdrive Video: Neighbor Car Sharing With RelayRides!
Here comes the next generation of car sharing: neighbor-to-neighbor, or car sharing 2.0! RelayRides is a young startup that connects people who want to loan out their car to people that want to rent...
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Green Overdrive Video: From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank!
Turning the Bay Area’s restaurant cooking oil into fuel is the goal of the folks at Got Grease. And on this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we go on a grease run and factory tour...
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Green Overdrive Video: The Electric VW Bug!
Introducing the all-electric VW bug! No, you can’t buy it out on the showroom floor — DIY-er and entrepreneur Al Bullock electrified his VW bug and has been driving around Livermore, Calif. for the...
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Green Overdrive Video: Cut Fuel, Crashes With GreenRoad
For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we take you to the offices of GreenRoad, a startup that has developed a technology to help company drivers reduce crashes and cut fuel use....
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VIDEO: Riding Brammo’s Electric Motorcycle in Green Overdrive
On this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s video show Green Overdrive (where if it’s green we drive it), I take Brammo‘s all-electric motorcycle the Enertia out for a spin. It’s so much fun to drive, and I...
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Green Overdrive: Behind the Scenes of Tesla’s Model S Alpha
For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we bring you a behind-the-scenes look at the testing program for Tesla’s next-generation all-electric sedan, the Model S. The vehicle will...
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Announcing GigaOM’s 10 Big Ideas Startups for Green:Net 2011
We’re excited to announce that GigaOm has unveiled their 10 Big Ideas winners that will present their innovations at the third annual Green:Net 2011 event on April 21 in San Francisco. The 10 Big...
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Green Overdrive Video: Wrightspeed Retrofits Trucks to Go Electric
Cutting down on the fuel usage of company trucks and fleets could make a major dent in the oil consumption of the U.S. Silicon Valley-based startup Wrightspeed is led by a co-founder of Tesla Motors,...
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Green Overdrive Video: Tesla’s Apple-Inspired Stores
Tesla has a new inspiration for selling its pioneering electric car: Apple. Last Summer Tesla hired George Blankenship to be in charge of its interactive in-store customer experience. Blankenship is...
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The Green Overdrive Show: A Folding Electric Scooter
For the latest episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we test drive an electric folding scooter that can carry a large box (or me!). The company that made the cargo scooter is called Lit Motors...
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Green Overdrive Video: Home Brew Volvo, Powered by Solyndra Solar
An engineer at solar panel maker Solyndra electrified an old Volvo and has been using it for his daily commute to work, where he designs aspects of Solyndra’s tube-shaped solar panels. Even better,...
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Green Overdrive: Take a Ride With Us in a Tesla Model S Beta!
For the latest episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we bring you a ride in a Beta version of electric car maker Tesla‘s second car – the Model S. A Beta car is an almost production-ready car,...
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Green Overdrive Video: A Day of Driving the Electric i MiEV
GigaOM’s Green Overdrive show has test driven a decent amount of electric cars, but most of them have been around the block or on a closed track. But for the latest episode we wanted to see what it...
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