Affordable Auto Industry Coal Concept 
Green Car Congress
JULY 4, 2009
Within a decade, he added, Volkswagen wants to offer significant numbers of pure electric cars at affordable prices and with the range expected by customers. However, Winterkorn said, VW, and the German auto industry in general, abandoned the early advantage and work in electromobility. New Small Family ( earlier post ) in 2013.
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2010
the need for widespread affordable hydrogen if mass-produced fuel cell vehicles are to become a reality, a feedstock/production combination for biofuels that does not compete with food crops, etc.). Most of the remaining barriers relate to cost (e.g., fuel cells, batteries, etc.), although there are also substantial performance barriers (e.g.,
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Developing and demonstrating a novel cryo-compressed tank concept. Improving hydrogen-from-coal technologies, including developing membranes for separation and purification that show the potential, at laboratory scale, to achieve the 2010 technical targets for flux (200 ft 3 /hr/ft 2 ).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
GM says it is already looking ahead to the next generation of Volt-based vehicles — it unveiled the Cadillac Converj concept in January — and says costs will come down as the technology spreads to more models. They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it. "You dont get to skip Gen 1," Henderson said.
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