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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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GM to pay $35M fine for ignition switch defect recall timing

Green Car Congress

GM will also pay additional civil penalties for failing to respond on time to the agency’s document demands during NHTSA’s investigation. The Consent Order also requires GM to notify NHTSA of changes to its schedule for completing production of repair parts by 4 October.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#.

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