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- Aligning EVs and the Smart Grid: Synergy and Progress
- It’s understatement to say that battery and plug-in hybrid cars are not straining the electric grid today. Tesla has sold 700 cars, and there are a few thousand homemade conversions and stranded corporate leftovers (Solectria, U.S. Electricar, Taylor-Dunn, Toyota RAV4) scattered around the country. But with more...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
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- French billionaire launches $1.5B EV battery play
- France's Bolloré Group (EPA:BOL) unveiled today its $120 million upgrade to a lithium-metal-polymer battery factory in Québec, Canada, that the company took over in 2007. French billionaire and Bolloré Group CEO Vincent Bolloré told the Cleantech Group that the expansion is part of his company's $1.5 billion initiative to have...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Tesla Motors using Dana's battery cooling tech in the Roadster
- Maumee, Ohio-based Dana Holding (NYSE:DAN) disclosed for the first time today that its battery cooling technology is going into Tesla Motors' 2010 all-electric Roadster Sport, a high-performance, zero-emissions sports car. The 2010 Roadsters, including the Sport, started production in July and are now available. The company has already delivered nearly...
- News items 2009-11-16
- Detroit Auto Show: Toyota Cautious on Battery Cars
- Bill Reinert, Toyota's grizzled national alternative-fuel vehicles manager, isn't afraid to describe himself both as "an old hippie" and as an ardent environmentalist. And yet he's inherently cautious when asked at the North American International Auto Show about the company's volume plans for a production battery car similar to the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- The Coda EV's $24 Million Investors include Clinton/Bush Officials
- Investment capital is the holy grail during this recession, but Coda Automotive co-chairman Kevin Czinger has managed to raise $24 million in a Series B investment round for his new battery electric car, including some cash from prominent political players. Coda’s car is about the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Nissan's New EV: Almost Ready for Prime Time
- Nissan is getting ready to launch its new electric vehicle EV next year, and it recently brought an early test version of the car (in the body of a Nissan Cube, though the actual car will have its own dedicated platform) on a 12-city tour that culminated this week in...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Nissan's CEO Makes the Case for EVs at 2009 Tokyo Motor Show
- Nissan Motor president and CEO Carlos Ghosn displays the Leaf at the press preview of the Tokyo Motor Show. (Photograph by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images) Nissan is investing more than $4 billion in the program to design the car and to develop the lithium-ion battery pack with parent company NEC. This...
- News items 2009-10-22
- The Truth Behind the 230 MPG Claim From the Chevy Volt: Analysis
- It's all in the numbers: The EPA has finally figured out exactly what the testing procedures might be (the regulation hasn't formally been adopted yet) for plug-in hybrid vehicles like the Chevy Volt. This week Chevy announced that the Volt will deliver 230 mpg. Other plug-in-hybrid manufacturers won't be long...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Toyota's Problem With Plug-in Hybrids
- NEW YORK CITYâ€"The “Meeting of the Minds,†an international city planning conference held in the most urban of settings (the 60th floor of a JP Morgan Chase office tower) was perhaps an unlikely setting for a tutorial on the inherent problems of plug-in hybrid PHEV cars, but Toyota was the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Nissan Estimates Leaf Price Around $25,000; Reservations Coming
- Nissan North America says it has received 22,000 queries about the Leaf electric car in the U.S., and is targeting 20,000 reservations by the end of next year. It will start taking names in early spring, says spokesman Scott Stevens. No price has been announced for the Leaf, but Stevens...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- With Such U.S. Partners as Coda Automotive, Chinese Car Market Becomes World's Largest
- By most measures, the Chinese auto market is booming. In the first half of 2009, China led the world with 6.1 million sales (compared to just 4.8 million in the U.S.) But there’s more to it than just that: China is also poised to become the world leader in electric...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Bright's Big Plug-In Hybrid Production Plans (Conversions, Too)
- When President Obama announced on the campaign trail that he wanted to see a million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015, peopleâ€"especially in the auto industryâ€"thought he was dreaming. One company that is taking the goal seriously reports Autoblog.com, is Bright Automotive, which thinks it can, all by itself, make more...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Sneak peek: 2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid
- Infiniti has announced plans to add a hybrid to the M line for the 2012 model year. In what will be Infinitiâ??s first production hybrid vehicle, the M35 Hybrid will be based on the redesigned 2011 M, and it will join the M37 and M56 six- and eight-cylinder models. Infinitiâ??s...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Detroit Auto Show: Toyota's all-electric city car
- As CARB's mandate for carmakers to start selling plug-in hybrids and zero-emissions cars gets ever bigger in the window (2012), the number of battery-electric vehicle BEV prototypes is growing fast. Nissan, Mitsubishi, Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz, among others, have announced plans to sell BEVs. The latest entry is from Toyota, which...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Wagoner's Gone, but GM is Still Plugging the Volt
- Although corporate stocks sometimes jump when an unsuccessful CEO bails out, the news that Rick Wagoner of General Motors resigned under pressure sent its shares (at just $3.62 at the close Friday) down more than 30 percent in initial trading Monday. The stock had gone as low as $1.45 a share in...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Chinese Carmaker BYD to Bring EVs to U.S. Next Year
- In a sign of a heightened international competition, the leading Chinese battery maker and increasingly carmaker BYD (“Build Your Dreamsâ€) is intending to bring its E6 electric car to the U.S. a year sooner than previously announced. That will make it available here next year, just in time to compete...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- GE: Bringing the Electric Car to Life
- Blaise Zerega submits: The next year and a half will see the re-birth of the electric car. And none other than GE GE -- that's right, General Electric, will be playing a big role in this transformation of transportation by applying its know-how to both the power grid...
- External links 2008-09-24
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