Plugs and Cars

MARCH 5, 2008

Pretty soon it might be down to BMW and Honda advertising the dream, with the California Air Resources Board acting as enabler. Honda, the supposed H2 true believer, is actually given an incentive to produce fewer of its much touted Clarity FCV. Green Wombat has more info here.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 25, 2010

The Honda EV+ used the same Panasonic EV-95 NiMH battery modules with an active system, and those packs didn't last as long. Tags: carlos ghosn toyota rav4 ev GM honda ev+ chevy volt nissan leaf. A fan circulates air. Many EV+ packs were exchanged during their brief time on the road.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 7, 2007

Honda's FCX also relies on an unspecified amount of battery power to make the car viable. Honda may yet stick a plug on its FCX. Tags: honda Volt plug-in hybrid alternative fuels fcx Lithium hydrogen Airstream Ford GM serial hybrid Chevrolet fuel cell. The times they are a changin'. The times they are a changin'.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 4, 2009

Honda down 38%. General Motors Corp, which is racing to complete a restructuring plan this month to keep it from bankruptcy, led the sinking industry lower with a 53 percent drop in sales. The results mark the 16th consecutive monthly drop in auto sales. Ford down 48%. Chrysler down 44%. Toyota down 37%. Nissan down 38%.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 10, 2007

nk City titled A Honda Civic for the age of global warming. Business 2.0's s Green Wombat blogger Todd Woody has written up an optimistic report on the Th!nk As I mentioned a week or so ago, the first new Th!nk nk City electric car has rolled off its Norwegian assemblyline.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 20, 2007

Even Honda got in on the act. Honda considering plug-in hybrids Business Portal 24 (press release) - Bad Lausick,Sachseri,Germany One big corporate "ME TOO!" Daimler/Chrysler has dusted off its long ago announced Sprinter PHEV. Nancy Goia of Ford got some ink for comments at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 19, 2007

Just as Toyota announces delays on the next-generation (read plug-in hybrid) Prius and Honda cancels its hybrid Accord, Google has thrown down the gauntlet.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2006

He repeatedly praised Honda's "vision," a pathway via CNG (Civic GX) to hydrogen (FCV). Why he should take seriously the utopian "Home Energy Station" given Honda dribbling out a few thousand Civic GXs and the slow to market PHIL home unit is beyond me.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

On the ground at the LA Auto Show, and on the air (Honda here and BMW here ) automakers tout hydrogen & fuel cell vehicles disingenuously as "ready for the world when the world is ready." Behind the scenes they lobby to lower the numbers of these million dollar babies they must produce to meet their zero emission vehicle obligations.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 11, 2007

Toyota, Honda and GM were dismantling their electric efforts, but Ford seemed to be making a last stab at a viable electric program called Think Mobility. By then, every other maker of a ZEV Mandated electric car had leased all their cars and were plotting their destruction rather than making any more to meet the demand.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The representative from Honda, the most consistently pro-fuel cell automaker, said FCVs are "not yet ready for mass production" and that much work needs to be done "before even slight volume increases." Friedman sent an email immediately for the record clarifying the conversation with Ms. He is awaiting a response.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Honda with the remaining CNG vehicle from a major and two hydrogen fuel cell cars. ZENNs and Miles Motors and scaled down pickups and jeeps from companies I'd never heard of. But this is unlikely to have a large impact on the availability of full BEVs. A few bio-cars were there. Daimler Chrysler's FCV made an appearance.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 27, 2007

Many of our members, including myself, drove ZEV Mandate battery electric cars - GM EV1, Honda EV+, Ford Th!nk Chairman Sawyer, Members, my name is Marc Geller, and I represent the San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association. nk City - until they were confiscated by the automakers. A few of us still drive Toyota RAV4 EVs - a truly great car.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

The National Hydrogen Association (members include Chevron, GM, Shell, Toyota, Honda, CARB and UC Davis), the California Hydrogen Business Council, and the US Fuel Cell Council are not happy with Chu’s cuts. But their dreams haven’t yet been sunk.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

They will join the one Honda Fuel Cell car currently in private hands in Southern California. Still no truly firm date for either car, but GM has been stoking the expectation fire. At the same time, they are looking for 100 consumers to take on a $1 million hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

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