Green Cars News
APRIL 19, 2009
Many people have concerns about buying a hybrid car - and they don’t just relate to the price tag. Again this is true as the batteries used were originally NiMH but are now progressing to lithium-ion with some even able to hit 0-60mph in four seconds. Fiction - Hybrid car battery toxicity is environmentally detrimental.
Plugs and Cars
MARCH 23, 2007
Interest in plug-in cars of all sorts is real and growing. The auto industry has disappointed before when it comes to green technology. billion taxpayer-funded effort, called the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), to build an 80-miles-per-gallon car. And little came of a $1.5 Last year, Ford Motor Co.
Green Car Congress
JULY 4, 2009
Cautioning that the development and commercialization of the electric car is “ not a sprint, but a marathon ”, Volkswagen AG Chairman of the Board of Management Prof. Within a decade, he added, Volkswagen wants to offer significant numbers of pure electric cars at affordable prices and with the range expected by customers.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. New car buyers are not like pioneers, advocates and experts, Kurani noted. Which cars should be built when? Source: Ken Kurani.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Car-Makers Say. Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! What do car companies say about PHEVs? Just the opposite.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Raising money to bring a PHEV to market.
Green Cars News
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
The green car race may have been dominated by Japanese and German manufacturers to date, with American automakers playing catch-up, but now it is the French who are fighting back with Peugeot, Citroen and Renault all revealing a greener outlook…. The green car race: the French are coming. Renault – the fab four.
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