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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

Cerf oversaw improvements to the system for three years after the launch, then left when former colleague Kahn started the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) , a nonprofit contract research organization. Testifying before Congress in his early days at DARPA, he wore a three-piece suit. 1970 and Ph.D.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. See Chevy Volt for latest.

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