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- It's Shocking: Electric Car Batteries in Short Supply
- Late last month, Ford Americas President Mark Fields said that problems with nickel-metal-hydride battery supplies could hinder the number of 2010 Fusion Hybrid cars the company will be able to produce. "We are constrained by the amount of components, including batteries, that the supply base can provide us," he...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Ontario, Home to Major Automakers, Invests in Homegrown Electric Cars
- The city of Windsor, Ontario is a short tunnel ride from downtown Detroit, and the province of Ontario is home to a major automobile industry. A 2006 survey pointed out that Ontario actually builds more cars than Michigan does. According to the survey, the province builds 2.5 million cars...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Greentech Abroad: Australia's 20 Percent and a Million Electric Cars For Germany
- Major moves toward clean energy are taking place in other developed countries as governments find ways to navigate between today's recession and worries of future global warming. In Australia, lawmakers have just passed plans to generate 20 percent of all electricity from renewable sources by 2020, while Germany aims to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Ford backs smart grid for electric cars
- Ford is collaborating with 10 utility companies and the US Department of Energy on a smart grid scheme that will allow electric vehicles to communicate with the grid. The system would allow drivers to plug their cars into a power source and set it to recharge while electricity is cheap, for...
- Articles 2009-08-19
- GridPoint Software for World's Biggest Electric Car Deployment
- On August 10, charging company ECOtality (through its subsidiary, eTec) announced that it had been awarded almost $100 million in stimulus money. Working with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the money will support deployment of 12,750 charging stations and 5,000 Nissan Leaf EVs. Although this is being billed as...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Ford Uses Federal Money to Accelerate Electric Car Plans
- Ford was the biggest winner back in June when the Department of Energy announced the first round of its $25 billion loan program for electric vehicles and battery manufacture. The company was funded with $5.9 billion through 2011 to improve the fuel efficiency of a dozen popular vehiclesâ€"from the Taurus...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Chinese electric car group speeds up US plans
- BYD, the upstart Chinese car company backed by US investment guru Warren Buffett, said yesterday that it would start selling its e6 all-electric sedans in the US next year, a year ahead of schedule.Announcing in Hong Kong that the company had nearly doubled first-half net profits from a year...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Tesla Test Drive: Time to Try an American Car?
- MoneyWatch picked six American cars to check out now. The sleekest of the bunch is the new Tesla Roadster, which does zero to 60 in under four seconds.
- Videos 2009-09-04
- Leased Electric Car Batteries Take a Big Step Forward
- Electric cars are too expensive for the average consumer -- if you buy the whole vehicle, anyway. Take out the batteries, and you've got something affordable. That pretty much sums up the plans of Nissan and Renault, the two car companies run by Brazilian investor Carlos Ghosn....
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Iceland's President Pushes for EVs...And a 100 Percent Clean Energy Economy
- REYKJAVIK, ICELANDâ€"The President of Iceland lives in Bessastadir, a historic, 19th-century residence on a peninsula. From a distance, it resembles the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, but up close it’s notable for the lack of formality. The trappings of power are anathema in Iceland, where even Bjork can count on...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Indian Electric Car May be Built in Upstate New York
- India’s Reva Electric Car Company may be planning to build a multimillion-dollar auto plant in upstate New York. According to a perhap overeager report in Syracuse’s Post-Standard, the deal includes both state and federal incentives and is in its final negotiating phase. Amazingly enough, because Reva has...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Should Electric Cars Make Noise? U.S. Law May Require It.
- As a car writer, people ask me for advice, and I recently got this communication from friend Etienne via Facebook: “Jim, I need guidance,†it said. “Please...I TRIED and CANNOT get used to the lack of sound when my son’s Honda Civic hybrid..doesn’t make any sound. It gets me nervous. Is...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Week in Renewables: Clean Energy Incentives and Brewing Political Storms
- With the United States' two major CO2-penalizing bills limping through Senate, new legislation and programs aimed instead at rewarding clean energy are popping up everywhere. Earlier this week I mentioned the European Commission's idea to invest almost $100 billion over ten years to research renewables. That's not...
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- If SAP Built The Electric Car
- A hilarious spoof speculating on what would happen if SAP tried to build an electric car reveals issues confronting the enterprise software vendor's actual business. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Ultracapacitors: Maybe Not Miracle Workers, but Great EV Power Potential
- Ultracapacitors can provide short-burst power for start-stop and regenerative braking systems in hybrid and electric cars. The market--and expected uses--are growing fast. But what about EEStor's extravagant claims? by Jim Motavalli
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- VW hires Neumann to lead electric car unit
- Volkswagen has poached back the former chief executive of Continental for a newly created post to oversee the development of electric engines, highlighting the rapidly increasing importance of zero-emission vehicles for the industry.Karl-Thomas Neumann will start in December as head of electric mobility and group chief officer, reporting directly...
- External links 2009-11-11
- How GM Decided to Shoot the Moon
- GM hopes its Chevy Volt revolutionizes the auto industry and reinvigorates the company. Here?s how GM decided to bet $1 billion on a new breed of car.Falling market share, shuttered plants, dead brands, bankruptcy, and a government bailout ? that?s been the news out of GM in recent years. Yet...
- Articles 2009-11-11
- Beijing in the vanguard of technology revolution
- China surprised this year when it overtook the US to become the biggest vehicle market, several years ahead of expectations.Now Beijing plans to leapfrog a generation of automotive technology to lead the green car revolution.Chinese vehicle makers rely heavily on foreign technology to produce internal combustion cars.But Beijing is...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Q&A: From hybrids to pure electric
- What's the difference between an electric car and a hybrid?The first generation of hybrids, such as the Toyota Prius, are powered by a battery as well as an internal combustion engine. The battery, which is recharged by the vehicle itself, is the sole source of power only at low...
- External links 2009-08-19
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