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- Fisker to buy GM plant to produce affordable plug-in hybrids
- California-based Fisker Automotive is paying USD18m to acquire an old General Motors manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware. An additional USD175m will be spent refurbishing and retooling the site, which will produce the firm’s Project NINA affordable plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV. ...
- Articles 2009-10-27
- Plug-In Hybrid Maker Bright Automotive Still Struggling to Raise Funding
- INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANAâ€"John Waters, President of Bright Automotive, stops the car in an industrial pocket of Indianapolis and gestures at a nondescript building. “Right there is where we built the batteries for the General Motors EV-1 battery car. In that building, we tested the first large-format lithium-ion batteries that were used on the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Predicting the 2020 EV Market: Consider the Wild Cards
- It’s always fun to predict the future, and the beauty is that if you are projecting far enough ahead no one’s likely to remember what you’d saidâ€"even if turned out to be egregiously wrong. How many battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and just plain hybrids will sell...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Ford Gains a "Global Electrification" Czar
- The two titles sound rather similar, but it’s definitely a promotion. Nancy Gioia, who was Ford’s director of sustainable mobility technology and hybrid vehicle programs for North America, is now in an all-new position as director of global electrification. But she was always internationally focused. I’ve both interviewed Gioia and...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- A Business Case for Battery Cars? Look at Tesla
- What is the real business opportunity with battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles? “Most of the technology issues are minimal,†says Phil Gott, director of automotive consulting at IHS Global Insight. “What we’re really worried about is the market acceptance by the general consumer.†In short, will people be...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Five Tips for Starting a Car Company
- Having immersed myself in covering electric vehicle EV and plug-in hybrid startup companies for BNET Autos, I think I’m in as good a position as any to offer five things companies need to do right to make it in the shark-infested waters of the current highly stressed auto market. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Unlike Toyota, Ford is Bullish on Plug-In Hybrids
- Ford, the only one of the Big Three not to declare bankruptcy, is nonetheless still in a fairly big hole. For all of 2008, Ford’s sales were down 21 percent. There’s a slight hint of a turnaround in the reports from May: although sales were still way down (24.2 percent)...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Shuffling the Deck at Saturn
- DETROITâ€"When Roger Penske takes over the Saturn brand, probably in October, one of the company’s more heralded cars will not be making the trip. It’s the plug-in hybrid version of the Saturn Vue, which had been scheduled for 2009, but is now delayed until at least 2011. But neither General...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Toyota Hedges its Bets on Plug-In Hybrids (Part Two)
- My post earlier this week on Toyota’s problems with plug-in hybrid cars apparently hit a nerve with a lot of readers. Yes, some influential voices in the American branch of the company question whether plug-ins make senseâ€"largely because they add weight, cost and complexity. But Toyota spokesman...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- 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
- Plug-In Hybrids: Will They be Affordable?
- Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles PHEVs have no more committed champion than Felix Kramer, founder of the nonprofit California Cars Initiative, also known as CalCars.org. Kramer was advocating for the commercialization of PHEVs when most carmakers were still denying that a business case could be made for them. Now,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- With GM Suffering, Will the Volt Plug In?
- General Motors’ economic woes are deepening, with the company’s auditors saying that its continued survival is in “substantial doubt.†Among many other serious issues, that raises questions about the future of one of the company’s most touted products, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle. The Volt...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- JCS to supply Ford’s plug-in hybrid
- Johnson Controls-Saft JCS will supply lithium-ion batteries to Ford Motor Company’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV, scheduled to begin production in 2012. Under the five-year deal, JCS will assemble the battery packs in the US. Initially, the cells will be produced at the company’s factory in France. JCS will...
- Articles 2009-02-03
- Fisker buys GM plant to produce affordable plug-in hybrids
- California-based Fisker Automotive is paying USD18m to acquire an old General Motors manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware. An additional USD175m will be spent refurbishing and retooling the site, which will produce the NINA plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV. The car...
- Articles 2009-10-27
- Lithium-Ion Batteries Could be Too Expensive, MIT Team Says
- By all appearances, battery-powered cars are ready for prime time. The list of companies planning to introduce new plug-in hybrids and electric battery cars in the next few years is long, and includes General Motors (the Volt and a separate plug-in hybrid), Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Chrysler, Infiniti, Aptera, Tesla (the Model...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
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