One more milestone passed: When Ryan Fulcher left the Bay Area to drive back to Seattle last Monday, he was experiencing error messages when trying to charge...
A car that gets 100 mpg and can help save the world? Here's Acterra's press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palo Alto, CA - April 27, 2006 - Join Acterra on...
We've been focusing on existing solutions because we believe today's NiMH and Li-Ion batteries, in mass production, are technically and economically more than...
Plugging In to Renewable Communities How transportation based on renewable energy-powered communities may solve our addiction to fossil resources. By Terry...
Congress Should Transition U.S. Postal Fleet to Plug-In Hybrids Austin, TX- May 4, 2006A nationwide grassroots coalition promoting the mass production of a...
Amanda Kovattana is a free range writer who offers fresh, organically grown perspectives while cultivating a fruitful living as a professional organizer. She...
Last Saturday the LA Times lead editorial, "From 0 to 60 in 40 watts", concluded that PHEVs were "the car of the future." This Saturday, the paper is running a...
Watch CBS 60 Minutes Sunday night: THE ETHANOL SOLUTION. We expect Daniel Kammen to be featured. Kammen is a CalCars advisor and is involved in the California...
CNN filmed the CalCars Prius conversion our team of 12 completed April 22-24. Our story shows up around 3:00 of a 4:42-minute report, along with actress Daryl...
The graphic accompanying this story (presumably in the print version as well) includes a graphic sidebar, "Auto industry going green" that describes as "now in...
Ralph King, former reporter for Business 2.0 and The Wall Street Journal, now at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking, said he wanted more than...
Jim DiPeso is policy director for REP AMERICA -- www.rep.org -- "The National Grassroots Organization of Republicans for Environmental Protection" whose...
This is your chance as Plug-In Hybrid Supporters and CalCars Fans to help make history, and have the biggest impact in the shortest time. We've decided to...
In the first 24 hours since we announced our plan and goal, 72 people from 20 states, (plus Toronto and Quebec) -- mostly from the 3,321 subscribers to...
Ford's annual Shareholder Meeting, in Wilmington, Delaware, will be webcast starting at 9AM. The entire event may last 3 hours; some will be routine; there may...
In a 3-minute streaming video, this online TV show captures CalCars' experience and ambitions at the MakerFaire very well. Here's how the Microsoft-sponsored...
Here's the letter we wrote to Bill Ford summarizing discussions to date with the company, proposing a statement we now hope they will make. You can also find a...
Thank you all for your patience in these past months when we told you we were in conversations with an auto-maker but couldn't say more. We're not all the way...
In the first 48 hours since we announced our plan and goal, we raised $13,388. Today's big development in donations: an anonymous donor has made a challenge...
We'll have an update on our fundraising efforts for our trip to DC later today--we're getting close, helped by the 100% match offer. If you haven't contributed...
This morning we were at $21,370. We still have funds available for to match your contributions 1:1. We've gotten some sizeable contributions, but many small...
<http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=11911&url=> and soon, I expect, at http://www.nesea.org/transportation/tour/ Tour de Sol Winners...
Unofficial transcript by CalCars.org of questions from Jennifer Krill, Rainforest Alliance and Russell Long, Bluewater Network, and answers from Bill Ford, Jr....
We've raised $22,630 from over 165 contributors. And we have some additional pledges that will take us over the top. I know money is tight for many people...
Whether our car would fly was up in the air all day today. Though we thought everything had been settled last week, we ran into objections from the local...
100mpg Plug-in hybrid to debut in Washington DC WHAT: Bicameral, bipartisan press conference on energy security + plug in hybrid vehicle test drives by...
This is written by Gal Luft, who as co-founder of Set America Free, is co-sponsoring our Washington event. It was set to run before the meeting with Pres. Bush...
Blogs by a leading journalist on "clean tech" and by the national Plug-In Partners campaign have joined in expressing their hopes that Ford will see a benefit...