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Jim Motavalli is the author of Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, among other books. He has been covering the environmental side of the auto industry for more than a decade, and writes regularly on those topics for the New York Times.- more about Jim Motavalli »
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- Women Car Buyers Still Met With Dealer Disrespect
- Women buy 60 percent of new cars, and 53 percent of used ones, but many are still encountering unequal treatment on the sales floor. A quarter of respondents in a CarMax poll say they were poorly treated. To fix the problem, some dealers are trying sensitivity training. by Jim Motavalli
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Cash for Clunkers Ends With a Bang and a Whimper
- And so Cash for Clunkers ends with both a bang and a whimper. The program, which stopped accepting new consumer applications on Monday, was undoubtedly a success. In the third quarter, the White House Council of Economic Advisors said the program would increase economic growth by as much as 0.3...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- EV Maker Zap Secures $25 Million in New Funding
- When it comes to financing its electric vehicle operations, venerable California-based Zap looks eastâ€"specifically, to Asia. The company, which makes the Xebra and other EVs, has been through its share of controversy. But Zap is riding a tide of EV euphoria and has secured $31 million in new financing since...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- 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
- Cash for Clunkers: 5 Secrets and 3 Smart Tips
- The conventional wisdom says: Dump your wheels now and grab the rebate from Uncle Sam. The conventional wisdom is wrong. ...
- Articles 2009-07-21
- 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
- Ford Readies EV Fleets, Prepares to Connect to the Smart Grid
- DEARBORN, MICHIGANâ€"Parked in a row at its Dearborn proving grounds, Ford showed off a trio of electric cars: A Transit Connect commercial van to be introduced next year, a battery electric version of the Focus (coming in 2011) and an Escape-based plug-in hybrid (2012, but not as an Escape). ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Siemens Builds Electric Bike for American Chopper TV Show
- Munich-based Siemens, a global energy company and service provider with plans to help build the smart grid, had revenue of $116.6 billion in fiscal 2008 ($22.4 in the U.S.) It has 69,000 employees, and operates in 190 countries. Its products are involved in the generation of a quarter of the world’s...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf: Where the Triple-Digit Fuel Economy Came From
- The Internet has been buzzing with calculations, many of them erroneous, about how General Motors arrived at its estimate of 230 mpg equivalent for the series hybrid Chevy Volt, due late next year. The smoke has cleared enough that we can get a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Volvo Shows a C30-Based Battery Car
- Volvo has confirmed my earlier reporting that it has built prototypes of a battery electric vehicle based on the C30 coupe, with 130-mile range. Right now there are only one or two such battery cars, says Volvo spokesman Dan Johnston, but a decision on creating fleets of hundreds of them...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Electric Bikes for Sale at Best Buy
- Are Americans ready for electric bicycles? Some celebrated entrepreneurs, including Lee Iaccoca and Malcolm Bricklin, have lost their shirts in the category, but Best Buy is convinced that the electrification of transportation now extends to two-wheelers. It has started an experiment to sell several forms of assisted pedaling (as well...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- 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 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
- For Your Consideration: Six American Cars
- The American auto industry is a basket case, reeling as the recession shrinks the market, consumers defect to imports, and General Motors and Chrysler fight to recover from bankruptcy. Many Americans want to help, but also don’t want to be martyrs to one of Detroit’s unreliable, poorly built gas-guzzlers. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Big Green Claims for the Fisker Karma Supercar
- The Fisker Karma will be at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week, and the Irvine, California-based company is claiming very strong green credentials for its ultra-fast (zero to 62 in six seconds) plug-in hybrid supercar. Using Society of Automotive Engineers SAE calculators, Fisker says it gets 67.2...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- "Cars for Idiots": Carmakers Get Personal About New Technology
- Sometimes carmakers take the competition personally, especially when new technology is involved. Toyota executives recently went out of their way to disparage the plug-in hybrid even though their own company is building one. Irv Miller, Toyota’s group vice president of environmental and public affairs, told me back...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- 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
- 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
- Did Cash for Clunkers Crush Classics? Not Likely.
- Now that the smoke has cleared, was Cash for Clunkers a holocaust for classic cars? This has long been the contention of old car collectors, who have waged a rear-guard action against such programs, state and federal, complete with heated language. Scrappage programs, said the Specialty Equipment...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Folding Bicycles: Green Transportation for Tough Times?
- One of the realities of our current transportation picture is that, despite the momentary lift from Cash for Clunkers (which sent sales up one percent in August compared to the year before, and up 26 percent from last July), people are deferring new car purchases. And they may defer them...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
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