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In San Jose area? Come join us next week!

Revenge of the Electric Car

Revenge of the Electric Car producer Jessie Deeter and Who Killed the Electric Car member and EV extraordinaire Chelsea Sexton will be at the Plug-In 2010 Conference and Exposition on Tuesday, July 27th as part of “Public Night&# for the conference.

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Study finds stabilizing warming at 1.5 ?C would result in economic hit through 2100; benefits accrue by 2300

Green Car Congress

A new study by a team from San Jose State University and Stanford University has found that—even under heightened damage estimates—the additional mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C by 2100 would eventually confer net benefits of thousands of trillions of dollars in gross world product by 2300.

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GM Announcing Volt Pricing and Ordering Tomorrow; Video Web Chat with Volt Team at 4pm ET

Green Car Congress

Joel Ewanick, GM vice president of US marketing will announce pricing and ordering details for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt tomorrow (27 July) at the Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose, Calif today at 12:00 PM ET.

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Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids

Cars That Think

Nvidia’s ongoing GTC developer conference in San Jose is, unsurprisingly, almost entirely about AI this year. But in between the AI developments, Nvidia has also made a couple of significant robotics announcements.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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ECONAMIQ: Flexible over-expansion with cylinder deactivation can reduce ICE fuel consumption by up to 20%

Green Car Congress

The company presented its first results at the annual ASME ICEF (Internal Combustion Engine Fall) conference in Chicago. ECONAMIQ is headquartered in Utrecht, The Netherlands with subsidiaries in New York (NY) and San Jose (CA). ECONAMIQ expects the technology to be implemented in several vehicles in the upcoming years.

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Chevy Volt Price Announced

Green Car Reports

GM announced the price for the 2011 Volt at Plug-In 2010, a conference being held this week in San Jose. The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has been in gestation so long, we've wondered if it ever would become a reality. Now the reality is here. The Volt's MSRP will be $41,000, which includes a $720 destination fee.

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