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If you’re a resident of Michigan and currently dote around in an electric vehicle, you’re going to want to add Meijer to the list of places to stop — for necessity and food. Julie Croll, Senior Vice President of Properties and Real estate at the popular Hypermarket, announced that the company is currently in the process of installing new electric vehicle chargers (in partner with Coulomb Technologies) at several of their Michigan stores, though the first station is already live in Warren, Michigan. Allen Park and Holland are the next to Mejier locations scheduled for installation.
The best part for consumers is that each one of these SAE J1772-compliant stations are 100% free, and provide 110v or 220v charging options. Right now, the maximum number stations per store is two. Croll added, however, that up to 20 more Meijer stations would be “electrified” by the end of 2011.
Any mid-westerners going to make the trek up to Michigan to check the new charging stations out?
- September 14, 2010 8:23 am
In the history of the automobile, some have aged more gracefully than others. Whether it’s a body style that simple oozes sexiness or some little feature that somehow translates into hard cash further on down the road, classic cars can be quite lucrative. For the cars that don’t enjoy the rockstar lifestyle, junk yards are the only thing they have to look forward to. But one lucky bus from the era in which the UK’s Ministry of Technology employed a fleet of 7 has a second chance at life by way of a meticulous, grand restoration.
The freshly restored Grand Vintage Mobile Cinema’s claim to fame is the 22-seat theater it houses within it’s curvaceous white body panels. I really can’t think of any mobile vehicle that’s anywhere near as cool. Well, ok. I can — the pope mobile with a kegerator, a piano, and a swing hanging above it. Yeah, that would be pretty amazing. I’m not going to lie. But since that won’t happen anytime soon, I’ll stick with the 22-seat, theater packin’ love bus…
Check out the gallery inside…because you really want to…
Have you ever looked at your pathetic typical American car and wished for more? We all have. It’s only natural to want something better than what you’ve got. For many, money is the only barrier between what is and what could be. So if you’re going to dream, dream big, right? That ideology is perfectly captured by this 1982 Porsche 928 with a slight engine mod — a Boeing Turbine engine crammed into the engine bay.
According to the seller, it’s his daily driver, tops 160MPH, has 360hp and 700 foot pounds of torque. Not to mention, it does all of that while running on straight diesel and managing to net 17mpg. Not bad for a turbine Porsche car, huh? It may not win any stop light races, but it’ll certainly look bad ass with those straight pipes out of the hood.
Interested parties can check out the full list of features over on the eBay listing page. Oh yeah, this baby’s for sale! As of writing, the bid is up to $12k. Not bad for what you’re getting. Better hurry…
Land Rover’s aren’t cheap. This is no secret. But when money is no object and you bathe in fine caviar and smoke the finest cigars, a tricked out Range Rover is the only answer to mobile luxury. The Design Q designed Range Rover is marketed as a private jet on wheels. Lavish goodies such as extra seat room, personal mini spa, humidor, and plenty of other over-the-top features ensure your bank account will bleed deep, dark red before all is said and done.
Anyone up for a cocoanut facial and Brazilian wax while doing 90 on the highway through downtown Iraq? Yeah, I’ll pass…
Modern conveniences and tasty munchies. Need I say more….
Have a good weekend everyone.
The world may be looking at an increasing problem as BP’s black gold seeps into the Gulf, but the human drive can overcome some pretty great odds. After the spills are cleaned and we’re left looking around wondering what’s going to power our cars now that it’s all floating around in the world’s oceans, we can take comfort in knowing that a quick trip to the grocery store will remedy our woes.
The Coke and Mentos Rocket Car is born…
Oooo la la, a Porsche. Hold your horses folks. Looking past the garish blingity bling gold wrapping, you’re left wondering who the hell would destroy an exotic car as expensive as the GTR3. But looks can be deceiving as you are actually looking at the world’s slowest Porsche. It’s not because the engine is too small, lacking displacement or refinement. In actuality, the “engine” is quite crude. Nothing but a few pedals and sheer human determination. Have a laugh after taking the plunge…
Remember the Segway? It was supposed to be “the” gadget of the modern digital age. The creators voiced their personal accounts of the future in which each man, woman, and child would one day ride Segways everywhere. Well, that future just hasn’t materialized yet. Far from it in fact. You could say the Segway was an epic failure. I instead choose to see it as ahead of it’s time. Sad, but true.
Nevertheless, one companies failure is another companies success — or so Taurus would like us to believe. Hoping we’ve forgotten the pretty useless (for the masses anyway) traits of the Segway, Taurus is eying to wow us with their “Taurus Concept Vehicle”. Now, I’m a geek, so I think this is pretty sweet. Bring common sense and reality into the picture however, and all that “coolness” suddenly wears off.
In a day and age where the Segway failed, if this concept vehicle follows anywhere closely behind, failure is a sure bet as well. For us nerds, we can at least gaze on over these concept images and imagine what the world will be like decades from now, because that’s as close as the Taurus Concept Vehicle will ever come to us.
Anyone feeling a little gloomy that the human race is seemingly crawling along when technology is concerned?
Dvice > OhGizmo > Jalopnik > Taurus
After dropping a cool six figures on one of the hottest looking (and fastest) production cars in history, deciding what to do with that spare change left over can be quite a conundrum. Never fear. There’s always something in the gadget world that you can drop on. After spending millions on a uber powerful supercar, what’s a couple (likely thousand) more?
Precisely the mindset that Korean designer Won Chan Lee wants you to have. His nifty PSP design concept takes it’s cues from Bugatti’s faster than life car and transforms them into a pretty slick PSP mod. While I’m not really looking to pick up a PSP, I’d certainly be more receptive if the Bugattie Veyron PSP were available. Then again, if it takes it’s pricing from it’s more mechanical big brother, I won’t really have to worry about purchasing one as I don’t have nearly enough organs to sell…
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