Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

You know, we should continue to investigate the possibilities of electric cars. Now we're seeing a huge growth in fuel-efficient cars that is benefitting the Japanese automakers, and Detroit is getting pounded some more. And I think that we can make those cars here in the United States.

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APRIL 22, 2010

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has proposed what could be a huge roadblock to the further implementation of our sensible pro-plug-in car policies. And that reaction was from an auto company that is taking a "go slow" approach to using grid electricity as a "fuel" for cars. With friends like these. Let's be clear.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Al Gore has probably been presumed to be a long-time booster of electric cars, but it hasn't always been so. Tags: al gore battery electric car. Like many, he couldn't see past the dirty, coal-produced power many plug-ins would utilize, despite the environmental benefits. Now he's sees a EVs a'comin'.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

But ten fuel cell cars and a Shell filling station do not a transformation make. Tags: mitsubishi jim motavalli fuel cell imiev hydrogen battery electric car. The last, best hope of hydrogen and fuel cell for vehicles is down for the count. After grand ambitions and lofty rhetoric, reality has set in.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 6, 2008

Rechargeit.org , Google.org's campaign for plug-in cars, has issued a call for short videos. Tags: rechargeit.org google.org battery electric car plug-in car. If you've got one, explain how it works for you. If you want one, explain why. Videos are beginning to show up on youtube.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The false or misleading claims include: that the loans will be used to build cars that cost $89,000 and $109,000; that the loans will finance foreign manufacturing; and that Fisker and Tesla are European companies. Tags: tesla fisker foxnews battery electric car. Here's one of the FoxNews stories: See the full report here.

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JULY 17, 2008

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. This represents a big change in his thinking, and will hopefully quickly push political and environmental leadership to coalesce around policies to push plug-in cars into the market as quickly as possible.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 27, 2009

A 50-electric car parade took the issue right to the Trade and Industry Department in downtown Oslo. In Norway, the effort to find a means to get financing so Th!nk nk can fulfill existing orders for thousands of vehicles took to the streets on Tuesday.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 25, 2009

GM recently entered into a 50/50 partnership with Reva, the Indian electric car company, to produce an electric version of the Chevrolet Spark. electric car spark electric spark. Reva has been selling small EVs in India and England for the past few years.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 11, 2007

I've long heard rumors of Chinese auto makers developing an electric car. Unfortunately the article suggest the car will be solely for the domestic Chinese market. Seems to me the Chinese ought to capture the American market for electric cars before the majors get off the dime. Tags: electric car china.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

There are no cars for sale. For years BMW disparaged electric cars, and poured money into liquid hydrogen ICE vehicles and promoted them ad nauseum. Yet it took BMW less than one year to make an electric car. battery electric car. The only problem? Is this limited, one year, lease-only release testing the waters?

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JANUARY 29, 2009

And it would leave the country ready to receive the cars that will help us achieve our greenhouse gas reduction goals. Tags: norway think global charge point battery electric car charge station.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2007

An Agence France Presse report has produced a small flurry of articles this past week, here and here , for example, that has a German company developing Lithium batteries that would be suitable for electric cars. Of late, the French, Irish and Finns are creating feebate structures that could push electric cars.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

The congestion charge in London has spurred electric car availability and sales. nk Global will be selling its electric cars in Norway again soon. As a daily driver of a Toyota-built electric car here in California, I'm all in favor of public charging stations and fast charging. Tags: electric car.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 11, 2007

Many of Norway's tycoons and heirs are making significant investments in the company which is planning production of as many as 10,000 cars by 2009. My first electric car was a Think City, produced when the company was owned by Ford. This "smarter than Smart" city car was a revelation to me when I leased it in 2001.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 29, 2008

Next, Friedman hopes, new leadership will choose the right policy, one that leads us to electric cars. Ultimately, we need to move our entire fleet to plug-in electric cars. Tags: thomas friedman barack obama battery electric car plug-in car. Obama was not blown away by his opposition to the gas holiday.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2007

London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. The policy, which exempts electric cars from hefty daily taxation, is resulting in increasingly significant vehicle choices for English consumers. Mitsubishi could be the first with cars for sale if the UK distributor has its way. Norway's Th!nk

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tags: GM ev1 regenerative breaking battery electric car.

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DECEMBER 21, 2007

Electric cars, including many Th!nk nk City cars and at least one RAV4 EV, turned out in large numbers to salute Al Gore, lining Oslo streets as he drove (in a gasser) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. click on the photo below to see more photos thanks to ElBil Norge , click on the video image to see Youtube video.)

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The IEEE Spectrum Magazine for November 07 touts on its cover "Battery or Fuel-Cell Cars? Surely a strong argument can be made that something approaching a cabal turned a practical electric-cars-on-the-road mandate into a research and development program for hydrogen fuel cells vehicles. Only battery cars can do that near term.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Low emission vehicles will receive a rebate, high emission cars will be assessed a fee. Mid level emitters, representing about 45% of the cars currently sold, will be unaffected. As reported on the Green Car Congress website , electric vehicles would receive 5 times the rebate available to the best currently conceivable ICE vehicle.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Every electric car advocate is asked the same question every day: Are EVs really cleaner, greener, better for the environment? The long tailpipe, and all that. Slate, the online magazine, has an enviro Q&A column, The Green Lantern , that asks the question today. percent of our nation's electricity is generated by the burning of coal.

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DECEMBER 24, 2007

Smart Car of America has the most complete report, straight from Daimler, with most of the relevant stats. nk City cars are said to be using. Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first of 100 electric Smart ForTwos to fleet customers in the UK. Coventry City Council will be using the electric Smart in its fleet.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Nuclear or solar, if Iranians won't consider electricty for cars, perhaps neighboring Arab states will. A report out of tiny Abu Dhabi suggests some of the oil rich may be looking considering alternatives to oil for cars. But could a most unlikely alliance with Arabic enterprise result in actual electric cars being produced?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Along with a host of the filthy, the ugly and the dangerous, Time and Dan Neil declare the EV1 one of the 50 worst cars ever. Had they wanted to include a crappy electric car, they had plenty to choose from. But no, they picked what might have been the best electric car ever, and said even it sucked.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

But we need to keep in mind that when we're talking about cars, even coal-generated electricity results in lower greenhouse gas emissions compared with petroleum. The EPRI-NRDC Plug-in Hybrid Study makes clear that under every scenario studied, every region will yield reductions in greenhouse gases as we increase the number of plug-in cars.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 25, 2007

An excellent piece on electric cars by Steven Wickens in the Toronto Star here. Let's not forget, as GM hypes the Volt , 1000 140-range NiMH EV1 electric cars rot in the Arizona sun. Let's not forget, as GM hypes the Volt , 1000 140-range NiMH EV1 electric cars rot in the Arizona sun. Tags: electric car ev1 RAV4 EV.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 4, 2009

In 2007 GM spokesman Scott Fosgard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that by 2012 there will be about 10,000 hydrogen vehicles on the market from a variety of companies. I don't think so. But Toyota's announcement itself should sow seeds of doubt.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 27, 2007

There are some lessons we need to learn as we are inundated with adverts about "clean coal," if we are not to get snookered as enviros did over the electric car. emphasis added] The glee with which the automakers tracked down the trial electric cars that they had produced, and crushed the cars into small cubes, must have been palpable.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 14, 2007

PG&E's Peter Darbee, its president, CEO and chairman of the board, let the committee know that plug-in hybrid cars could play a huge role in lowering carbon emissions. And assured the Senators that the electric grid, as it is, could charge millions of cars today displacing millions of gallons of petroleum. Sanders chair such a hearing.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Another sign that fuel cells for cars are history. Of course years ago Geoffrey Ballard said: "I doubt I will ever see a hydrogen car for personal consumption in a showroom. Ballard Power systems, long time fuel cell hot shot, wants out of the automotive fuel cell business. Ballard shares are up 10.5% on the news.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

Google translate sure knows how write a headline. Seems the deal between Better Place and its Danish partner Dong Energy has gone south. BP Denmark has gone through the initial investment of 400 kroner, and Dong denies an obligation to loan more. There are eroded cooperation between DONG Energy and Better Place Group," according to the story in epn.dk

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

One electric car, roughly speaking, will use about 3000 kWh to go about 12,000 miles. That means the electricity alone we use to refine petroleum each year could drive over 16,000,o00 electric cars 12,000 miles each year. I just ran across the latest available data, from 2005, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

His infectious smile alone communicates how much he likes his car. He has come to like the car so much that the fact that now it is costing him closer to his gasoline past doesn’t seem to get him down. But now they are back on the fence, holding off on getting a plug-in car. It saved him a lot of money for six months.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 14, 2011

At the same time, sales of electric cars are booming in Norway. The iMiev has become the fastest selling car in its segment, beating out gas vehicles. 764 new electric cars were registered in the first five months of the year. It's not paid it's bills since February, according to Swedish parts supplier AQ Wiring Systems.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 27, 2013

In the luxury car market you can feel that the ground has begun to shift. After numerous awards and accolades, it seems fair to say that the best luxury car is an electric car. The electric Infiniti has been “postponed,” and BMW is entering the market with a car that doesn’t challenge Tesla. Cars sit for hours and hours.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

Sunday October 5th on CBS. Watch CBS Videos Online

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