Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 29, 2010

The US Africa Command, inaugurated in 2008, will undoubtedly play a major role to enable safe passage of this increasingly vital oil. The poorly equipped government forces are now receiving support from the US Navy. The cost of this protection will, of course, be borne by American taxpayers. oil imports.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 1, 2007

This week La Poste will invite manufacturers to bid to build the first 500 for delivery in 2008. The French Post Office, La Poste, is seeking to place 10,000 electric vehicles in service in the next five years.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Available 2008 •under $30,000 •120 mile range •10kWh Lithium pack •under 1500 pounds Check it out here. There's video , lots of stills and most of the basic stats you'd want to know. And plans for a serial plug-in hybrid. 300mpg, they say. Here's to hoping all they say is true.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 2, 2008

The Roadster will be sold in Europe beginning in Summer, 2008, CEO Ze'ev Drori has told the Financial Times. His pals in the Old World won't have to wait too much longer before they can buy their own, for a cool €100,000 ($156,000.) The upstart California auto maker decided to offer its vehicles in Europe for a number of reasons.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 13, 2007

And if the OEMs don't step up to the plate, $2500 should push a significant number of hybrid owners to contemplate conversions coming to market in 2008. . $5000 could cover, certainly goes a long way, to make up the differential between a gasoline only hybrid and a plug-in. Over 200,000 PHEVs.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2007

nk has settled on Lithium for all the new cars, it won't be producing until late 2008. A deal was announced yesterday with EnerDel, an Indiana subsidiary of Ener1 and Lithium battery manufacturer. This means if Th!nk The deal calls for prototype batteries to be delivered in March 08 and preproduction batteries in July.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

That which they don't kill (EVs in 2003) they hope to delay (FCVs in 2008). CARB could nudge that process along as the ZEV program is revised early in 2008. Auto makers still want lots of credit for fuel cells, they just don't want to keep to the agreed timetable. Every car maker has announced intentions to plug something in.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 8, 2011

It has 44 reports going back to 2008. Just take a look at an evchargermaps.com entry for a Costco with chargers. For example, the Mountain View location, a place I've charged and shopped at a few times a year since 2004. And dozens more going back to 2003.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 21, 2007

With hydrogen as a fuel option, the car is so expensive and made in such limited numbers it has no MSRP and is not rated on the EPA Green Vehicle Guide for 2007 or 2008. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

nk City in 2008. Daimler is set to be the first on the street with 100 test vehicle SMARTs in 2008. Limited ranged, lead-acid battery based cars, they have nonetheless proven the demand of even less than perfect electric vehicles. Norway's Th!nk nk Global views London as a first market when it relaunches the Th!nk

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 20, 2007

19 -- More than 20 Dodge Sprinter Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) will be placed in the United States between now and the first quarter of 2008 as.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

2008 required another tune up based on the opinion of the Air Board’s own independent technology review panel which said that fuel cells cars are not ready for mass commercialization. The 2008 Toyota Prius is 242 g/mi today. If FCVs are to be better than a Prius, the hydrogen must be produced from renewable energy.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 29, 2006

He said Honda would begin selling the car in 2008. Honda previously announced plans to offer a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle based on its FCX Concept in Japan and the United States. At the Santa Monica AltFuel Expo in early December, I asked Steven Ellis, Honda AFV Chief, about the FCX. I asked if he meant "selling" the car. Yes, he said.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Increases for hydrogen fuel cell research from $289 million in FY 2007 to $309 million in FY 2008. The Detroit News has the alternative fuel breakdown in the president's budget request, and it isn't pretty. Automakers already have begun lobbying for the Bush Administration and Congress to support further research funding after the $1.2

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

UPDATE: Felix Kramer of Calcars informs me that the vacuum bottle is standard on 2004-2008 Prius.) Toyota undoubtedly was testing this and perhaps other solutions even as they toyed with CARB's emissions sensitivities to retard regulators' interest in plug-ins.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 13, 2008

As of May, two Roadsters have been delivered, and the expectation is that 300 will be in customers hands by the end of 2008. Tesla has come to terms with its mistaken decision to introduce the Roadster with a two-speed transmission that delayed production a year or more. The luxury electric sedan codenamed Whitestar is slated for 2010.

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

But we find ourselves in 2008. Had national and economic security trumped the power of oil and auto companies, a large percentage of cars would run today on cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas. A few billion dollars a week wouldn’t leave the country, and we would all understand the value of choice.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Dear Secretary Bodman and Director Portman As you prepare the President's Fiscal Year 2008 budget request, we urge you to include adequate funding for Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs). See full text & signatories below.) In the Senate, support extends from the far-right (Brownback) to the moderate-left Barack Obama.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 31, 2007

Energy Washington Week reports PHEVs getting short shrift: Although increased attention is being paid to the technology, it is not sure how much support the president will lend PHEV in the 2008 budget. The White House says hybrid funding will be higher than last year's budget request but would not elaborate.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

If anything, we’ve become the electric car of the 2008 race. We have gotten more for what we have spent.” Although Huckabee gets it right, the blogger gets it all wrong. From his/her suggestion that the film Who Killed the Electric Car?

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