Trundlin back online….

After a short hiatus, trundlin.com will be back in action shortly.

Watch this space.

A shot in the arm for Tesla

Tesla Motors have received an investment from Daimler-Benz in exchange for 10% equity in the company.

A great vote of confidence for Tesla’s nascent technology and following my post about the Smart car trial, not too surprising.

Ford invests $550m in new Small Car Plant

Ford have announced today that they are investing $550m to transform their Michigan Truck Plant from one producing “traditional” American SUVs, to a flexible plant for manufacturing small cars.

The interesting part is that from 2011 the plant will churn out the battery electric Focus…..

Is 2011 the year electric goes mainstream?

A Tesla powered Smart car. Smart idea?

AutoblogGreen have a great little piece on an experimental Tesla powered Smart car.

It can’t be too long before this technology matures and perhaps Elon Musk won’t be mentioned in the same breath as Preston Tucker quite so often.

Trundlin along still

Little action on the blog, as there’s been little action in the site.

Personally, my car has been sold, and I’m now commuting via rail, so have a tiny eco glow as I walk into work each day.

My idea for the original Trundlin app. has already been used by at least one other company. As this company’s name rhymes with “Oogle” I’ve thought best leave the idea to them, and try to think of a new twist on the offering.

Tripess. This year’s Dopplr ?

I’ve just joined the private beta of a new travel planning website called www.tripess.com.

I use www.dopplr.com, but thought I would give Tripess a try, as I often find the user interface on Dopplr counterintuitive.

First impressions are good – with a particularly neat bookmark option that can grab data from the webpage you are visiting and use it to create a Tripess entry.

I’ll share my findings as my knowledge of the service grows.

If you HAVE to fly, this is the chap to have in the cockpit..

Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III is the chap you want guiding you in to land, if ever there is an in flight “issue”.

Reading a potted biography of the pilot of  US Airways Flight 1549 on CNN reinforces my view (especially as I approach the big “four O”) that experience counts !

Interview with Virgin Atlantic CEO

Great interview with Steve Ridgway in The TImes today. An inspirational leader often in the shadow of Richard Branson.

Airlines, as most businesses, are in the eye of the storm at the moment. This is the man to see Virgin Atlantic through!

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/movers_and_shakers/article5487948.ece

Why Trundlin?

Live life at breakneck speed, and what happens? (apart form breaking your neck!) – you forget. What did you do? Where? Who with?

This is what I love about evolution. The balance is (mostly) maintained.

To help me remember my travels I JPEG, I MPEG, I tweet, I dopplr, I email, I write and well, I RECORD everything in some way or other, as well as sharing it with my fellow human beings.

My favourite memory jogger? the still image, will video kill it now there are cameras like the Nikon D90 that can record HD video? I hope the still image doesn’t get reduced to a footnote in history?

Any thoughts readers?

“Eco” Hotels ?

“Greenwashing” is one of my favourite “mot du jour” at the moment.

I’d love to be “green” – but with a family of four, two cars and a job working for a subsidiary of an airline my carbon footprint is the size of a yeti! (Note: Car No.1 turns into a rail season ticket in 2 months time).

As with most middle class suburbanites in 2008 I will apply salve in the form of some eco products when I next shop at my local multi national supermarket.

I will also consider staying at the “aloft Lexington” next time I’m in Boston (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/hotels/index.html).

It looks pretty cool, and with a light dusting of eco credentials, I’ll report back on how “eco” is “eco” !