The roundup below includes the notes for our presentation to a forum, "US-China Cleantech - An Update," that was organized by Jim Hurd, premier networker and...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jul 16, 2009 5:24 am
With so much important news accumulating recently, I had considered calling this posting, "PHEV Reader's Digest," or "The Kitchen PHEV Sink." I hope the...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jul 30, 2009 10:56 pm
Here's more info on two events coming up in the next few weeks; some good news for CalCars; and previews on four new national plug-in events. You can also find...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Aug 5, 2009 7:38 pm
We want to share ASAP today's news. Below we include a quote, the basics, our quick summary of who got what, and URLs for the full list and related primary...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Aug 7, 2009 2:26 pm
Wednesdsay we posted news and specifics about the federal grant awards for the battery development for plug-in vehicles. We mistakenly said that these awards...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Aug 11, 2009 3:11 pm
Entrepreneurs have begun to retrofit ordinary combustion vehicles into all-electrics or plug-in hybrids. Below we talk about why this could be the "big fix"...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Aug 21, 2009 7:49 pm
Below we include news about GM, Toyota and Ford, plus a major story in the New Yorker magazine, and an invitation to unsuccessful applicants for recent US...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Sep 1, 2009 6:55 pm
At last month's Plug In 2009 conference and since, we've seen quite a bit of news about conversions. They confirm the case we've been making: because the...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Sep 22, 2009 11:24 pm
You'll find more items here than in any previous posting to CalCars-News. It's no longer possible to follow everything, but we hope to help spotlight...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Oct 15, 2009 9:56 pm
Here's information on an event tomorrow morning, conferences next week in MIchigan and Washington State, and reports/links to our presentation at a recent...
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Felix
felixkramery
Oct 16, 2009 4:49 pm
Due to a mixup we announced that the chat today (described below) would be at 12:30 Eastern, 9:30 Pacific -- but it's 3:30 Eastern 12:30 Pacific. Below is the...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Oct 17, 2009 5:33 pm
First of three catch-up postings: CalCars' one-page presentation of the case for gas-guzzler conversions and a request for endorsements; a supportive analysis...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Oct 17, 2009 5:37 pm
Second of three catch-up postings. Analysis of Toyota's long-awaited announcement of sales of PHEVs (in 2012); new concept PHEVs from Suzuki, Mitsubishi;...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Oct 17, 2009 6:09 pm
Third of three catch-up postings. POLICY: The ability of plug-ins to claim 100+ MPG continues to raise questions for raters and measurers; White House...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Nov 6, 2009 1:53 am
We just spoke at the first large-scale conference in Detroit on plug-in cars, "The Business of Plugging In." Speakers at this high-level event, organized by...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Nov 11, 2009 1:06 am
With COP-15 less than a month away -- for an unusual coalition's response to the international "Conference of Parties" of the United Nations Framework...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Nov 12, 2009 5:01 pm
Below read about: The Cleantech Open Award has gone national and will announce its 2009 awards in San Francisco this Tuesday--attend at a discount. A new...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Nov 12, 2009 5:02 pm
The ICE (internal combustion engine) retrofit industry is gaining momentum. Below we have news that Bright Automotive has signed its first contract for a...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Nov 18, 2009 5:43 pm
Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer-Prize winning NYTimes columnist, has been writing eloquently and persuasively about cleantech's potential to change and improve the...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Dec 16, 2009 4:34 am
Here's CalCars' comment: "We applaud Toyota's recognition that PHEVs' time has come. The technology is good enough to get started and the solution offers a...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Dec 18, 2009 9:43 pm
There's lots of recent news for GM -- and it's essentially all good. When the company announced the Volt in January 2007, it said it expected to have the car...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Dec 22, 2009 7:59 am
When the National Academy of Science's outgoing fuel cell analyst team produced a flawed study as its last act, the broad community promoting plug-in hybrids...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jan 8, 2010 6:27 pm
Welcome to 2010: The Year of the Plug-In Car. Here's our take on where we are as we enter this thrilling time. Plus some new opportunities and ways to get...
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Felix
felixkramery
Jan 15, 2010 9:30 pm
INTRODUCTION: For your edification this long weekend: In this posting, we return to address in greater detail the faulty assumptions underlying the conclusion...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jan 25, 2010 3:14 pm
To understand many of the most critical issues that face the auto industry, read the new report by the Electrification Coalition: "Electrification Roadmap:...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jan 25, 2010 4:10 pm
As a kid, seeing postal trucks drive, stop,turn off, restart, or drive, stop, and drive, first put the idea in my head that idling didn't make sense,...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jan 27, 2010 10:07 pm
The National Research Council recently issued a report predicting that plug-in vehicles will remain uneconomical without subsidies for decades. This report...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Feb 11, 2010 8:52 am
While I'm at the always-entertaining and inspiring TED conference http://conferences.ted.com/TED2010 (about the intersection of Technology, Entertainment and...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Feb 24, 2010 9:39 pm
BIG THINK'S FUTURE IN MOTION SERIES: This well-regarded website -- sometimes described as "YouTube for Ideas," or "the web version of The Charlie Rose Show"...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Feb 25, 2010 3:40 pm
GETTING THERE ASAP: CalCars 2.0 aims to convert tens of millions of gas-guzzler vehicles now on the road to run partly or entirely on electricity. What will it...
