Plugs and Cars

MARCH 27, 2007

Thus begins Dana Milbank's story in the Washington Post today. According to Milbank: [Bush's] role as uncompensated pitchman for gasoline alternatives makes perfect sense: If anybody needs a new fuel source, it is George W. The plug-in hybrid and Phoenix showing on the White House lawn seems a flash in the pan. Bush in 2007.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

Coalition Turns On to 'Plug-In Hybrids' Utilities, Localities, DaimlerChrysler Give Traction to Professor's Drive For High Mileage By JOHN J. He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Must the battery really be lithium to get this radically different automobile off the drawing board and into the showroom? If you've got hundreds of millions of trouble-free NiMH miles in hybrids and electric cars, why bet the bank on relatively untested if promising lithium? And there's the rub. Or is lithium the new hydrogen?

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) would combine today’s new gas-electric hybrid technology with larger batteries that could provide an all-electric operating range of 25 to 35 miles or more.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

The United Automobile Workers union was absolutely right to say, as it did yesterday, that Ford would be better off trying to design more appealing cars and trucks. Oil prices are not going down, they're going up," said Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, based in Washington.

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Baua Electric

MAY 23, 2023

Underneath an EPA proposal absolved in April to enormously short automobile emissions via 2032, automakers are forecast to construct 60 % EVs through 2030 and 67 % through 2032 to fulfill necessities, when put next with simply 5.8 % of U.S. automobiles offered in 2022 that have been EVs. automobiles offered in 2022 that have been EVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?",

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2015

Men and drivers over 45 were more likely to favor engine improvements, while younger motorists preferred alternative fuel sources (diesel, electric, hydrogen) as the primary means to save fuel and reduce emissions. The U-M survey also asked vehicle owners which advanced technology they would prefer at two different gasoline price points: $2.50/gallon

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. This will allow a.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

In a simultaneous—and video linked—unveil in New York, London and Beijing, BMW introduced the production version of its i3 battery-electric vehicle on Monday. The production version of the i3. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) earlier post ), but gain their advantage in the use phase.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

The 2012 Camry again offers three powertrain choices, all of which have been enhanced for 2012 to provide better fuel economy and more responsive performance: a revised 2.5L, 4-cylinder gasoline engine; an enhanced 3.5-liter liter V6; and a highly revised version of the Hybrid Synergy Drive powertrain for the Camry Hybrid, including a new 2.5-liter

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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? rolls toward bankruptcy.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Changing of the guard at the auto makers' industry group the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM). As reported at the Washington Note , just seeing a Democrat in this top spot once held by Andy Card , who went on to become Bush's Chief of Staff, is a positive sign of the times. No reason to believe that stance will change.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. So why has Oregon become a hotbed of activity for electric vehicles all of a sudden?

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

House of Representatives that would prevent California from receiving federal waivers to set standards limiting the sale of gasoline-driven automobiles. We have a free market; therefore if Americans truly wanted to make the switch to electric vehicles, then they would buy them — no government interference necessary.

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