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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

Green Car Congress

The US$30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE is a competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop lowcost methods of robotic space exploration. —Luca de Meo, Audi Board Member for Sales and Marketing. Click to enlarge. And innovative ideas need supporters that promote them.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill., "Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. executive who has studied BYD.

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