Plug-in Hybrid Race on as Toyota Tests NiMH PHEV; A123 Challenges CARB to Authorize Conversions
Plugs and Cars
JULY 25, 2007
It want CARB to authorize aftermarket conversions of hybrids with its Lithium batteries.
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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 16, 2007
Bob Lutz, GM CEO, sat down to chat with some bloggers at the NY Auto Show, and PODTECH has the video. Lutz responds to the sense that GM might be pulling back from its commitment to the Volt that resulted from Sharon Terlep's Detroit News article a month or so ago. (My GM doesn't need a fancy new package. Well worth a listen.
Green Autos in the Times: Hybrid Hype, Hydrogen Hooey and Electric Dreams
Plugs and Cars
JULY 14, 2007
Usually devoted to crass boosterism of America's largest manufacturing industry, these articles still contain a lot of that. So it is a photo of the Tesla Roadster that graces this article despite its message that electrics remain not ready for prime time because GM and Toyota say so. Especially as displayed in Adam B.
MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation
Charged EVs
MARCH 11, 2024
There are three stages in the rare earth magnet production process: mining; separating and purifying the elements; and transforming the elements into metal alloys and magnets. Recycling rare earth materials is vital to the cost-competitiveness of magnet manufacturing. MP Materials aims to establish all three stages in the US.
MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation – Charged EVs
Baua Electric
MARCH 11, 2024
There are three stages in the rare earth magnet production process: mining; separating and purifying the elements; and transforming the elements into metal alloys and magnets. Recycling rare earth materials is vital to the cost-competitiveness of magnet manufacturing. MP Materials aims to establish all three stages in the US.
The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries. billion to produce F-Series EVs and batteries in Stanton, Tennessee, for example, while GM is spending $2 billion to produce its new Cadillac LYRIQ EVs in Spring Hill, Tennessee. This mismatch worries automakers.
How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." That would be our preference," said Furia.
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