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| The Latest from CalCars News - PHEV News | MORE | | What's Dragging Down the Volt? And What Can We Do Now? Many plug-in advocates have been feeling frustrated about the Chevy Volt. It's an inspiring example of innovation, a milestone of advanced technology, and a pioneering vision of how to start getting off fossil fuels. Now its factory is closing for five weeks to clear inventory. What's the Volt's future? Can it resume its successful trajectory? CalCars News - PHEV News - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Just Published: "Charged Up & Ready to Roll" from Plug In America Plug In America's third annual consumer guide to plug-in cars is now out in print and digital media. You're sure to discover treasures in this 64-page glossy magazine-style publication -- table of contents and press release follow. It's now priced at only $5 -- so buy a few and give them away! Promote bulk orders! All at [link]. GUIDE. 57 Glossary. CalCars News - PHEV News - Thursday, February 23, 2012 Thanks, Sierra Club, For Coming Clean on Natural Gas This morning we're learning that the Sierra Club received $30 million from a natural gas company to fight coal, until its incoming Executive Director got the Board to agree in Sept 2010 to stop accepting money from fossil fuel companies. This is an important moment. " SOME PERSONAL HISTORY: I've been a Sierra Club member for decades. CalCars News - PHEV News - Monday, February 6, 2012 | -
| The Best from CalCars News - PHEV News | MORE | - Top Car Leader Bob Lutz Joins Via Motors & Other Conversion News
We continue working to build awareness about the feasibility and potential for a giant gas-guzzler conversion industry. The news that automotive giant Bob Lutz has signed up with Via Motors is encouraging, as is the spotlight being shed on innovative conversions by the Electric Auto Association. The news from Via gives us hope for both. "). CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, September 30, 2011 - NYTimes Magazine: mini-profiles of Prius "hackers"
The URL for this story at the CalCars-News Archive is [link]. This is one of three articles in a special Sunday Magazine section on hybrids called "STYLE: The Way We Drive Now." " I've posted further thoughts at my blog, "Power, Plugs and People" [link] and encourage additional comments there and to the publication at magazine@. CalCars News - PHEV News - Sunday, September 25, 2005 - San Jose Mercury News: Car Rally Crackles
See a few additional comments at the end of the report. link]. Sun, Sep. 25, 2005. CAR RALLY CRACKLES. GAS-FREE DRIVERS GET TOGETHER IN PALO ALTO. By HongDao Nguyen. Mercury News. And as gas prices continue to soar, Karmin's choice is both environmentally and economically appropriate. seconds. The crowd was as eclectic as the cars. CalCars News - PHEV News - Sunday, September 25, 2005 -
- 6 New Members of Plug-In Hybrid Consortium
[link] ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051222005305&newsLang=en. December 22, 2005 09:55 AM US Eastern Timezone. Southern California Edison Joins Plug-In Hybrid Consortium. PROVO, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. Plug-in hybrids allow the choice of running on electric or gasoline. PCX:RZ). About the Plug-in Hybrid Development Consortium. Contacts. CalCars News - PHEV News - Friday, December 23, 2005 - Embattled Climate Scientist James Hansen Endorses Plug-In Hybrids
BACKGROUND. James Hansen is generally seen as one of the world's leading experts on global warming -- and one of the earliest to study the issue. He's a physicist and the director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies, based at Columbia University. The NY Times broke the story Jan. Then on Feb. CalCars News - PHEV News - Tuesday, February 7, 2006
| The Latest from Electric Vehicles | MORE | | DOE to award $500K for testing of wave energy device in Hawaii The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $500,000 will be available this year to test the technical readiness of technologies that can harness energy from waves to supply clean, renewable power to highly-populated coastal regions. These efforts complement an ongoing collaboration with the Navy to advance ocean energy technologies. Brief Green Car Congress - Friday, May 18, 2012 | -
| The Best from Electric Vehicles | MORE | - GM's First New Battery Electric Car: 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV To Launch In U.S.
GM [NYSE:GM] had hoped to announce its latest green vehicle tomorrow morning, at a nice, orderly, staged press event to celebrate Chevrolet's 100th birthday. But one of its hometown papers jumped the gun and broke the news: The largest domestic car company will launch a small battery electric vehicle in the U.S. market. While The Detroit News had Green Car Reports - Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - Electric-Car Sales: Does GM Have A Chevy Volt Sales Problem?
It's that time of month again. Car sales reports spewed forth from the High Gear Media teletypes yesterday (September sales were up), and analysis stories followed. On the electric-car front, Nissan sold 1,031 Leaf battery-electric vehicles and Chevy shifted 723 Volts. While that's an improvement over last month's 302, it brings the Volt's 2011 Green Car Reports - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - Chevy Spark EV: Four Times The Electric Range? RLY? Errr, No
We love our readers, because they often have eagle eyes far more acute than our own. Take, for instance, Neal Riley. Reading our article on the 2013 Chevrolet Spark launch, which included official confirmation of the news on the all-electric Spark EV model that we broke last night, he asked: If the battery is really a 20-kilowatt-hour capacity Green Car Reports - Wednesday, October 12, 2011 -
- No Schwed. Building a hybrid car for millennials, and the future
A step in the right direction. Why Tesla’s Elon Musk is wrong about plug-in cars. Old, rich people are not the key to the plug-in car. That consumer cohort might be the key to sales and profits for niche automakers like Tesla Motors, but not for the sustainable, long term profits of a major automaker. And the time is nigh. Coached? …?, Hybrid Car Blog - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - GM Takes Heat For 'Stop Pedaling, Start Driving' College Ads
GM uses a fairly effective visual to promote its college discount in recent ads. beautiful co-ed (for our younger readers, that means a female student), sitting in the passenger seat of a passing car, grins at a clearly embarrassed bicyclist, who tries in vain to hide his identity with an open hand. As if the visual isn’t enough, GM backs Green Car Reports - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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