The Commonwealth Club of California, founded in 1903, is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its 16,000 members for over...
See a fun, edgy short video from Treehugger.com about our Prius Conversion at the Maker Faire (URL below). And the Plug-In Hybrid Development Consortium has...
Here's the press release, "U.S. Conference of Mayors Join Drive for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles," followed by the text of the resolution, "Encouraging the Use of...
US Department of Energy held its first-ever Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Discussion Meeting. The event included by-invitation representatives from seven...
We hope you'll all see the new film, "An Inconvenient Truth," as soon as it opens near you. For info and locations, see <http://www.climatecrisis.org/>. This...
House Science Committee Energy Subcommittee Chair Judy Biggert is now holding regional hearings on plug-in hybrids. Here's a report from a Nebraska newspaper...
The US Federal Reserve Board Chairman likes PHEVs "despite their inconvenience." Here's the Washington Monthly's report and blog, followed by the text This...
Now on your news-stand: the world's leading magazine on economics says "this niche technology could hit the big time over the next few years. The unusually...
We've been watching this local phenomenon since David Morris of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance started the ball rolling. It picked up momentum when a...
We've been hearing something was in the works for weeks. Reading carefully, this looks like a public acknowledgment of an existing R&D program on PHEVs. We're...
Are we in "never-mind"-land? We were VERY encouraged by Toyota's June 13 press release acknowledging that they have a research program on plug-in hybrids. R&D...
We're growing accustomed to provocative ideas coming from unexpected sources. US News & World Report recently joined the ranks of those acknowledging that...
CalCars and EnergyCS are in this new documentary that premieres at the Silverdocs film festival this Friday, followed by a cable broadcast on June 24....
Three weeks before the premiere of "Who Killed the Electric Car" (opening June 28, initially in NY and LA then in many other locations), PBS Now!, the TV News...
Increasingly, popular media energy coverage focuses on renewability and the kind of "all factors considered" approach that economists and environmentalists...
Here's the transcript of most of the last 10 minutes of a Los Angeles radio talk show. We've included the dialogue between Roland Hwang, Vehicles Policy...
For the Solar Sailor ferryboat, versions of which have been in operation in Sydney for several years, 50%+ of the fuel can come from photovoltaic cells...
CalCars, Prof. Andy Frank and others have long said Toyota could sell a PHEV version of the Prius for a $3,000 premium in mass-production quantities.We've...
Everyone in Detroit (and presumably at auto-makers around the world) reads the trade journals. (We don't have the budget to subscribe.) We hadn't seen a...
It's great to be reaching both the Popular Science audience and Popular Mechanics in their July issues. NOTE: Toyota's time-frame in this magazine comes from a...
Coop America Quarterly is one of the first publications to start talking about the trend of independent local efforts promoting PHEVs. Economic Action for a...
CalCars is a sponsor of this effort to significantly expand broad incentives to buyers, builders and researchers of advanced technology vehicles fueled by...
Bloomberg reports A GM PHEV prototype in January with commercial production perhaps as soon as a year: we've been focusing on Toyota and Ford, but GM needs...
This more questions reporters ask, the more the auto industry has to think about this and learn about PHEVs...today will be a busy day for CalCars-News...
Business 2.0 (a Time-Warner publication), July 2006 (not yet online), story includes a large photo of an EnergyCS car with a plug, captioned, "PLUG-AND-PLAY:...
Plug-In Partners Update June 23, 2006 The Plug-In Partners National Campaign has now been underway for six months. We would like to take this opportunity to...
Friday's Detroit Free Press and this week's issue of The Economist have extended stories that start out as movie reviews but evolve into extended discussions...
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has been a leading supporter of plug-in hybrids for years -- and a model for directions other regional...