Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Because of limited availability of VW stock, the initial Suzuki purchase will be around ¥50 billion (US$569 million), said Osamu Suzuki, Chairman, President, CEO and COO of Suzuki during a press conference in Tokyo. Tags: Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers. Suzuki is a world leader in the mini-car segment, and sold 2.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

a joint venture between General Motors Company, SAIC Group and Shanghai General Motors (SGM), will activate OnStar services and be fully operational in China in December 2009. Tags: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Smart charging Telematics. This marks OnStar’s first venture outside of North America.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I wrote a few months ago about the Japanese and European carmakers teaming up with Asian and Euro battery manufacturers with $200-$400 million deals to build large production facilities that will soon be cranking out high volumes of LiIon batteries for plug-in cars. Industry consultants say U.S. Battery Makers Work to Power Up.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Subsequently, they engaged the Coordinating Research Council ( CRC ), a non-profit organization that directs, through committee action, engineering and environmental studies on the interaction between automotive/other mobility equipment and petroleum products. Tags: Engines Ethanol Fuels Policy.

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Plug In Partners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Company bosses are said to be keen to put this system into production but no firm decisions will be made until the cost of batteries is reduced." Tags: manufacturers. Senior sources say that trials are currently underway in Japan, with a prototype that uses a rotary engine to charge the battery pack.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

which makes Panasonic products, will begin producing lithium-ion batteries next year and move into full-scale production in 2010, Toyota said. On June 11 and 12, the Brookings Institution and Google.org will host a conference entitled “ Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington ?”

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

General Motors presented an updated Viability Plan that accelerates and deepens the cuts in US brands and nameplates, dealers, manufacturing operations and employees intended to enable GM North America to breakeven (on an adjusted EBIT basis) at a US total industry sales volume of approximately 10 million vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

Hummer cars are known to have previously achieved as little as 12mpg, but thanks to Raser Technologies; who are currently exhibiting the new Hummer at the Plug-In Conference 2009, until Wednesday, 12 August at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California; the reputation of the Hummer could be on the mend.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

NewsVine StumbleUpon Mixx Text Size By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Corp. The struggling auto maker, surviving on a government lifeline, is looking to generate enthusiasm for its increasingly uncertain future ahead of the New York auto show this week. Manage Email preferences Companies within this Article General Motors Corp.(

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The auto industry is now gearing up to hash out those standards at the SAE conference in Detroit next week — and GM has a major stake in getting them out swiftly. According to GM, the updated standard can be expected by the end of the summer — just in time, perhaps, for the first production prototypes of the Chevy Volt.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Peter Valdes-Dapena , CNNMoney.com senior writer Last Updated: April 15, 2009: 2:59 PM ET The Dodge Circuit, slated to enter production late next year, is based on a vehicle platform engineered by Britains Lotus.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

NewsVine StumbleUpon Mixx Text Size By Keith Johnson General Motors wont just keep pouring money into the Chevy Volt, its all-electric carthe Volt is shaping up as a key part of the U.S. Tags: evdriven. Buzz facebook MySpace LinkedIn Digg del.icio.us automakers bid for survival. Will the government agree? .

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 13, 2009

Here’s what the brainiacs at General Motors sent the premier EV car conference on the West Coast. Fortunately there are companies at the Plug-In Conference who exceed expectations and one of them is Coulomb out of Campbell, California. Their chargers were all over the exhibit floor charging every EV there.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. The electric Mini is unlikely to go into production in its present form. Is it becuase US market prefers a "home" product?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. Topics: Deals and investments , Transportation Tags: GM , Segway , city transportation , 2009 New York auto show Share: Digg Del.icio.us Tags: evdriven. E-mail Martin. Video Web 2.0

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

DETROIT — The rapidly deteriorating finances of General Motors are forcing the federal government to decide whether to bail out the largest American automaker or face the prospect that it might go bankrupt. Tags: Production News GM Chevy Volt In the Media. November 8, 2008. Cash Is Its Best Hope. In July, G.M.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required).

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