Plugs and Cars

MAY 1, 2007

Proclaim the success of the ZEV mandate. Showcase the Toyota RAV4 EV s and RangerEVs still providing many more zero emission miles than all the hydrogen fuel cell cars touted by the car makers. Their own ZEV-mandated product proved they could do it. Highlight the synergy of California's Solar Initiative and plug-in cars.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Also today, instead of thousands more electric cars envisioned by the original ZEV mandate, we have about 200 one million-dollar hydrogen FCVs functioning as demo vehicles, limited by the lack of infrastructure, and lasting the limited 2 to 4 year life of their fuel cell stack. They say the point is ZEV miles on the road.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 26, 2007

So he proposed at the California Air Resources Board ZEV workshop on Tuesday. An ARB ZEV meeting is ordinarily a predictable affair. ZEV, SULEV, PZEV, ATPZEV, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Type I, II, III, and on and on. ZEV, SULEV, PZEV, ATPZEV, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Type I, II, III, and on and on. Look it up.)

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Thanks to Viddler ’s great contextual timeline tagging feature, you can easily skip to any speaker or portion of the video without delay. Click play on the below 38 minute video of Plug In America’s Inaugural EV Parade West to watch 26 minutes of rally speeches and experience the parade festivities.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 5, 2008

The Wall Street Journal reports GM, Toyota Doubtful on Fuel Cells' Mass Use. and Toyota Motor Corp. The Air Resources Board could probably find a way to lead by prodding early commercialization of battery ZEVs, but instead it appears to be regulating itself into irrelevancy. Top executives from General Motors Corp.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

In his blog he writes: Originally conceived of in 1990, the California ZEV program has morphed over time from just an electric car mandate to incorporate a broad spectrum of clean, advanced technology vehicles, such as hybrids. And to make his point Hwang stretched the original goal of 8,333 ZEVs per year into “mass commercialization.”

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla helped former shareholder Toyota to bring back the Toyota RAV4 EV , an electric SUV and also aided its other OEM shareholder, Daimler (which also has since divested its Tesla shares), with the Smart ED and B-Class Electric. Toyota – Big in Hybrids; Betting on Fuel Cells & Electrics. We’ve tested most of those.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 11, 2007

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. 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.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

nk City cars when Ford brought them to California to meet its ZEV Mandate obligation. Toyota’s first Plug-in Prius to Use NiMH Toyota is postponing its Lithium Priuses and rolling out a few NiMH plug-in Priuses for testing purposes. Perhaps Toyota’s battery division is having problems. I believe Google would find Th!nk

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

California’s ZEV mandate put EVs into consumers’ hands, only to be eviscerated by automaker and oil lobbying, federal intervention, and CARB’s capitulation to well-funded hydrogen hype. Tags: biofuels nissan GM zev mandate cafe standards barack obama battery electric car. GM waxed hot and cold on the EV1. No plug, no deal!

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. Sacto is meant to have free parking for ZEVs, but that parking lot didn't respect my ZEV parking decal. And I was there representing Plug In America.

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Plugs and Cars

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. And these advocates have successfully prodded Toyota to dangle a concept PHEV before our eyes. Toyota ought to be pleased with the tone of both stories.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

However, not so encouraging was a statement from Toyota which openly questioned the market viability of the technology (see article ). Why is Toyota questioning plug-in technology? Why is Toyota questioning plug-in technology? Does Toyota have a point? Toyota isn’t alone in its criticism of plug-in technology.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Tesla is the first to sell a full production electric car in the UK and is known for its hefty price tag too, retailing at a cool £94,000. Add this to the exhibition of the eCorolla electric car conversion project (an electric version of Toyota’s old Corolla model, see video here ) brought by the eCars Now!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

O’Brien was speaking at the California Air Resources Board’s ZEV Technology Symposium in Sacramento, California. As Toyota learned with the introduction of the Prius and its efforts on the 2002 RAV4 EV, O’Brien said, it is difficult to force technology adoption by consumers. Earlier post.). Michael O’Brien.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

2002 Toyota Rav4 EV VIN: 2630 - purchased 12/16/2002 For more fun, please click tabs at the top Rav4EV Discussion Group Signup Page In December, 2002, we purchased our 2002 Rav4EV. The official reasons that Toyota gives for why EVs are not suitable for the retail market - the reason that Toyota is working on FCVs in favor of BEVs.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota may be seen as the hybrid car king, but it has openly called into question the viability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. According to Michael O’Brien, the company’s US corporate manager, Toyota has key questions regarding market acceptance for the technology and who the target buyers might be.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

CARB and the automakers need a "travel provision" that gives California ZEV credits to fuel cell vehicles even when they have relocated to other states. SCE could log 50,000 miles every week or so with its Toyota RAV4 EV fleet. Tags: volkswagen fuel cell fuel cell vehicle Mary Nichols. That's about 3000 miles each.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Posted byJohn Addison Labels: autos , Batteries , clean fleet , cleantech , electric utilities , electric vehicles , energy , EV , green tech , Plug-in , zev 5 Comments: Martin Bromley said. Tags: evdriven. As someone not too up on the economics of battery storage, I wonder what the real selling point of V2G would be. SZ (1) 6753.T

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