Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 3, 2007

A member of congress, for the first time, spoke from the floor about promoting electric vehicles through federal legislation. It is a first comment on the palpable difference being experienced at this year's Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS23), the electric drive industry trade show. Five major automakers have expensive displays.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 20, 2007

Nancy Goia of Ford got some ink for comments at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit. Nancy Gioia, speaking to the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit, said, "The biggest barrier [to such technology] is the battery.". One big corporate "ME TOO!" Daimler/Chrysler has dusted off its long ago announced Sprinter PHEV.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 26, 2008

Even if Congress authorized coastal and ANWR exploitation as McCain now supports, the impact would be too late and too little. To say nothing of consumer's need for cheaper transportation fuel. Domestic oil producers apparently aren't extracting domestically where already approved but clamor for access to the coast.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 27, 2007

From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with global warming long ago. Dr James Hansen is perhaps the top climate scientist in the country. 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.

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

The ethanol boom was set off when Congress enacted an energy law in 2005 that included a national mandate for the use of renewable fuel in gasoline.Already, ethanol producers are poised to outpace that mandate.As ethanol supply increases over the next 12 months, the challenge will be to find a home for it,”.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2007

CARB, DOE, Congress all seem to turn to him to analyze the state of battery technology. Menahem Anderman, PhD, is Mister Battery Consultant. His reports always suggest batteries won't quite cut it for freeway-capable cars. Drivers of electric cars were stunned at his low opinion of the state of battery technology.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2010

At the SAE World Congress, Union of Concerned Scientists [Research Director of the Clean Vehicles Program] Dave Friedman stated that automakers should be responsible for the methods used to generate power for electric vehicles.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Or you can read someone snarkier and more cyncial about these matters than I, Mark Morford the San Francisco Chronicle columnist.because it's Beltway politics and watching it too closely is akin to having your cerebral cortex raped by encephalitic trolls, I've only paid cursory attention to the massive, landmark energy bill that's right now passing (..)

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Automakers already have begun lobbying for the Bush Administration and Congress to support further research funding after the $1.2 The Detroit News has the alternative fuel breakdown in the president's budget request, and it isn't pretty. Increases for hydrogen fuel cell research from $289 million in FY 2007 to $309 million in FY 2008.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

See my 7/12 post Plug-in Hybrid Bills in Congress Scare Auto Makers ) With the addition of the A123 battery module, a Prius gets between 125 and 175 mpg. Lately Goldman has been driving one around DC, meeting with policy makers and pushing for consumer incentives for hybrid conversions.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Photos of smiling Senators waving the infrastructure requirement for PHEVs, an extension cord, can be seen at: [link] Legislation moving ahead in congress, HR. Dozens of Senators and Congressional representatives from both parties had the opportunity to drive the car.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

It is up to us to keep the pressure on Congress and the automakers to find creative ways to bring plug-in vehicles to market quickly. Look for investments in ethanol to slow, and plants to close. But even at $2 a gallon, electricity is competitive, and in the national interest.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 31, 2007

A Tesla Roadster for every member of Congress would have been a better use of the money. Proof: Energy Department grants -- to the tune of about $44 million -- funded just over half of Ford's plug-in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle unveiled last week in Washington.

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