Plugs and Cars
JULY 31, 2008
One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. Put the bumper sticker and your car and let everyone know.).
Plug In Partners
JANUARY 28, 2008
SEC 132 Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program Grants to auto makers, suppliers, component manufacturers to encourage PHEVs, EVs, and advanced diesels. Here are the ones that caught our eye: Quantum's Fisker Joint Venture to Launch the New Fisker.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Only PHEVs and battery EVs get cleaner as they get older - because the electric grid gets cleaner every decade.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Batteries not ready. See Chevy Volt for latest.
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