article thumbnail

Can green cars solve automotive crisis? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

It has established itself as a firm leader in the green car race thanks to the success of the Toyota Prius and Japanese government ecological perks including tax breaks have helped ease the drop in sales with the Prius topping the sales charts in its home country for two successive months. However, he faces strong competition.

article thumbnail

Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

Mitsubishi has begun to manufacture the iMiev in the thousands for the Japanese market. In addition to the California funds there is federal stimulus money, $41 million by mid-April, being doled out to their projects, many of zero environmental benefit. The trajectory remains clear, and the pace has quickened. Such as the $1.1

Plug-in 100
article thumbnail

Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Department of Energys Transportation Electrification stimulus program for a federal grant that would enable a nationwide demonstration fleet with the United States Postal Service (USPS) * Potential partnership with USPS to include infrastructure support from ConEd, Duke Energy, DTE Energy and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington, D.C.,

Minivan 46