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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Do the simple math, Obama (ho,ho) and learn just how stupid thou really art.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. Barack Obama releases Bush administration torture memos 5. blog | About guardian.co.uk | Join our dating site today guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009 Go to: guardian.co.uk

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Obama embraces PHEVs

Plug In Partners

Barack Obama (D-Ill.) The Grist Magazine blog has posted the complete speech here. Barack Obama on Energy Independence Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Governor's Ethanol Coalition Washington, DC Feb. Barack Obama on Energy Independence Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Governor's Ethanol Coalition Washington, DC Feb.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"The whole idea is that this is technology you can adapt to any existing niche," he said. The key component is a stackable battery pack that can be combined like building blocks to create larger or smaller battery packs of different shapes depending on need. 5.90 / 0.07% Nasdaq 1,673.07 2.63 / 0.16% S&P 500 869.60

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Your comments: Remember me E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Reply ↓ ↑ report 2 Snoopy 3:47PM (4/17/2009) Its funny, because I was thinking about this over the past couple of days, while walking the streets of my relatively quiet neighbourhood.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

And the same people who lapped that stuff up like the mindless minions they are, today use words like “socialist&# to describe President Obama and they nod along like bobble heads to every word of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. And now it’s time for the rest of the USA to step up and try and match us out here on the best coast.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in.

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