Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 16, 2010

If they don’t, then the car industry warns it’ll be hard to hit President Obama’s goal of one million electric and/or plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. Read more in the WSJ article by Josh Mitchell: Auto Industry Plugs Electric-Car Subsidies. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

An editorial in Japan’s Nikkei argues that Japanese automakers need to respond aggressively to compete in the rapidly changing global market for electric vehicles.both Toyota and Honda had until recently thought that the era of hybrids would continue for a while before electric vehicles began to gain popularity.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. The BrightDrop Zevo 600. Photo courtesy of BrightDrop. Why not GMC?

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. In 2010 Nissan used it in its Leaf electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

If you listen to US President Barack Obama it has been a long time coming – his decision to pour $2.4billion of stimulus money to make America a global leader in electric and hybrid car development comes as the country plays catch up to the likes of Japan and even China in the green car race (see article ). “I Who will benefit?

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2009

Ricardo, one of the leaders in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles, has welcomed President Obama’s announcement of $2.4billion in grants to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of the next generation of US batteries and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Cischke cited the recent agreement on one national standard for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions regulations as an example of how the government, the auto industry and the environmental community can work together toward common goals. Earlier post.) mpg in 2016. Sue Cischke. Ford received a $62.7 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. But many feel the electric car’s time has arrived.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Chris Paine’s film “ Who Killed the Electric Car ? He sent the story to KFWB News 980 and to President-elect Barack Obama.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

President Obama announced 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects that will receive $2.4 The announcement marks the single largest investment in advanced battery technology for hybrid and electric-drive vehicles ever made. Industry officials expect that this $2.4 Industry officials expect that this $2.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2009

the Obama Administration’s focus on nearer-term vehicle technologies to reduce. USCAR was founded in 1992 with the goal of strengthening the technology base of the US auto industry through cooperative research and development. A separate interim report by the National Research.

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2009

A powerful roster of key industry players in the rapidly evolving electric vehicle arena will come together at Infocast’s Opportunities in Grid-Connected Mobility in San Francisco, California. A key goal of the Obama administration is to have one million ‘PHEVs’ or a fully electric vehicle on the road by 2015.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric. percent of $1.9

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Green Cars News

JULY 30, 2009

In a separate report from the National Research Council in July it was determined that although the Obama administration’s focus on near-term technologies to improve fuel consumption is on the right track, there is still a need for investment in longer term, higher-risk technologies such as hydrogen storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

I write a monthly column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. As March came to a close, the Obama administration found GM and Chrysler’s restructuring plans “not viable.” Obama should take extraordinary steps to empower the electric upstarts to prove their mettle. Here's my April column.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

Ed Kjaer, the director of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, demonstrates how the Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle or MiEV plugs into their Garage of the Future at their Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Photo by Eric Tom). By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.

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APRIL 29, 2009

We are all stampeding towards an electric vehicle future. For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. The city will have two transit levels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. . report titled, “The Comeback of the Electric Car? and Chrysler. .’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

President Obama Steps Up To Save The Economy & The Climate While Republicans No Longer Relevant. I wholeheartedly applaud, support and endorse President Barack Obama’s signing of the $787 billion economic recovery bill just moments ago. The coal industry is about to get what’s coming to them and not a moment too soon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD’s conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt. They are the top of the top,” Mr. Wang told me, when I visited BYD last year.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

government earlier this year were so stringent that they were "a de facto battery-electric vehicle mandate.” Marketing materials often fall just shy of calling electric vehicles the savior of mankind and just about every automotive brand has promised to pivot toward EVs as if the meme suggestion is worthy of our collective praise.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Similarly, such mandates and incentives will drive the market for electric cars for a while. The Oregon Legislature is contemplating bills that provide credits for both manufacturers and purchasers of electric cars. It has awarded tax credits worth about $100 million to each of four manufacturers of electric-hybrid car batteries.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The state has consistently implemented clean-air rules that are stricter than those imposed at the federal level, including the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which requires automakers to produce a certain number of electric vehicles. Charged : So, you think they’re probably just going to restore the Obama-era targets for now?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Obama Administration doesnt understand that. The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. " President Obamas auto task force doesnt see it that way. General Motors has sought $10.3

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 28, 2007

Three Senators, Republican Orrin Hatch and Democrats Maria Cantwell and Barack Obama are showing signs of getting it. The Electric Drive Transportation website has the complete press release. “We We produce enough extra electricity right now to supply as much as 70 percent of the power needed by our cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

Grievances include claims that the executive branch is unconstitutionally manipulating the marketplace by setting requirements higher than manufacturers can adhere to, effectively mandating sales of electric vehicles that have been broadly unpopular in the United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last week.

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