Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2009
Under the federal stimulus plan, the Obama administration has set aside $2 billion for electric drive vehicle battery and component manufacturing projects. Production lines in both manufacturing facilities would house state-of-the-art equipment with flexibility to pursue multiple production ideas and products at one time.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
This will take place within the framework of the German economic stimulus package (Konjunkturpaket II) and other national and state programs to jointly address standardization and cost reduction issues. Germany, with its excellent ideas from all over the country, is to become the market leader for modern drive technologies.
Charged EVs
APRIL 6, 2023
The idea was to take that broad-based technology that we’ve built up over so many years and tune it to applications where our customers needed more complete capability. And then efficiency and cost. Our systems—and the automation of our systems—are used to improve the efficiency of production, which helps scale the cost down.
Green Car Congress
MAY 27, 2009
Second, a Congressional Budget Office study issued in April said even with subsidies ethanol is only profitable when a gallon of gasoline costs 70% or more than a bushel of corn, i.e, It is believed Valero purchased the plants at 30% of their original construction cost. (In gasoline would need to be greater than $2.80/gallon
Creative Greenius
JULY 19, 2009
We’ve since ratcheted down the electric use here at my home and in my office and studio watt by watt until we hit our new all time low just last month as we used just 357 kWh which cost us $46.24. A year ago for the same period we used 480 kWh which cost us $72.17. And two years ago we used 654 kWh which cost us $117.89.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
“While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable,” the task force noted in its recent assessment of GM’s restructuring plans. The group pointed to a B.C.G. — Tony 11.
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