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...
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Jun 12, 2006 3:10 pm
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...
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Jun 12, 2006 3:37 pm
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...
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Jun 13, 2006 2:31 pm
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...
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Jun 14, 2006 3:32 pm
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...
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Jun 15, 2006 2:08 am
We're growing accustomed to provocative ideas coming from unexpected sources. US News & World Report recently joined the ranks of those acknowledging that...
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Jun 15, 2006 2:09 am
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....
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Jun 15, 2006 6:48 am
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...
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Jun 16, 2006 4:56 am
Increasingly, popular media energy coverage focuses on renewability and the kind of "all factors considered" approach that economists and environmentalists...
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Jun 16, 2006 8:38 pm
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...
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Jun 19, 2006 5:17 am
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...
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Jun 19, 2006 3:58 pm
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...
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Jun 19, 2006 7:38 pm
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...
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Jun 20, 2006 10:09 pm
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...
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Jun 21, 2006 12:24 am
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...
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Jun 22, 2006 9:18 pm
CalCars is a sponsor of this effort to significantly expand broad incentives to buyers, builders and researchers of advanced technology vehicles fueled by...
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Jun 23, 2006 5:04 am
Two reminders: CalCars & EnergyCS in Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" (10PM most places this Sat night) on Discover cable -- for details see...
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Jun 23, 2006 5:49 pm
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...
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Jun 23, 2006 5:55 pm
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...
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Jun 23, 2006 6:11 pm
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:...
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Jun 23, 2006 8:34 pm
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...
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Jun 24, 2006 5:04 pm
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...
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Jun 25, 2006 3:03 pm
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...
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Jun 29, 2006 2:53 pm
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) is the national community of business people committed to "protecting the environment while building economic prosperity."...
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Jun 29, 2006 3:15 pm
Ford's commitment to rapidly expanding its hybrid program is decreasing in favor of the easier goal of making more of their fleet flex-fuel capable. (To do...
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Jun 30, 2006 1:51 pm
Last November, Nancy Gioia took over Ford's hybrid and sustainable vehicles program from Mary Ann Wright, who had run the program for five years. (Gioia's...
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Felix Kramer
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Jun 30, 2006 1:55 pm
Though not described in what I'm including below, this bill AUTHORIZES BUT DOES NOT APPROPRIATE $250M/year from 2007-2011 for PHEV R&D and $50M/year for PHEV...
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Felix Kramer
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Jun 30, 2006 4:16 pm
NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat and other books, periodically presents documentaries (previously on the Times-Discovery cable...
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Jun 30, 2006 5:31 pm
Kansas Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas spoke by teleconference to the "Future Trends in Energy, Technology & Transportation"; held by the Cascadia Center at...
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Jun 30, 2006 8:46 pm
To CalCars/PHEV supporters For the next two weeks (until July 18), I'll be trying my best to stay disconnected while on vacation in Europe. This marks my first...
