Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
According to Fortune magazine’s cover story this week, BYD’s cost-cutting moves so far include hiring people to assemble batteries instead of buying the $100,000 robotic arms used by Japanese competitors, flying executives in coach for business travel and putting them up in suburban rentals instead of posh downtown hotels for events.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Well need to spend some more time with the car to find out how it holds up over longer drives, but the powertrain tech obviously works. Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries. Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. Current batteries in new Toyota hybridsare ~$3000 if they need to be replaced. If you charge with solar, is way less.
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 16, 2009
Posted by: CurtCurt | Apr 13, 2009 9:24:33 PM By the time they get these (or other plug-in hybrids) out into consumers hands, Tesla will be doing as well or better with pure EV tech, and by 2012 may even be making a tiny profit, instead of a huge loss, even though there production numbers are much smaller.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
This time it’s Obama’s brainless comments in which, within the very same paragraph, he both proclaimed that GM was behind in high tech green technologies which he foolishly proclaims the road to commercial salvation, and then blasts the Volt as a project incapable of saving GM. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.
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