Another chance for those of you who wanted to go to the September 20 E2/NRDC event. The scheduling of the program at the Sacramento Air Resources Board hearing...
Pacific Gas and Electricc announced at the launch event for Plug-in Bay Area that they'd be urging all their customers to sign the Plug-In Partners petition....
Just as we thought we Toyota's slogan "moving forward," applied to plug-in hybrids, they've again pushed back the date. We hoped for model year 2009; then it...
Now that PG&E has taken delivery of an EnergyCS converted Prius, with CalCars' two vehicles and one at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, there are 4...
In June 2005, Silicon Valley venture capitol reporter Matt Marshall wrote an article for his paper, the San Jose Mercury News and his blog, SiliconBeat, "Cars...
We're getting encouragement and reaction from many sources. At our own blog <http://www.hybridcars.com/blogs/power/new-company-for-phevs> are some very...
The Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) holds international conferences every 18-24 months -- and plug-in hybrid advocates and scientists hold a...
If there was any doubt left about whether there's a market for PHEVs, the nation's biggest car dealer just fixed that by saying, "That is a vehicle that I...
We haven't reported on the earlier announcements of this project. As the report from Green Car Congress makes clear, they're doing a two-stage process: first...
This Op-Ed is even more hard-hitting and full of sobering facts and statistics than his August article in Fortune and his comments on NPR Science Friday (which...
The New York Times report below somewhat unexpectedly breaks the story that Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google (able to both give grants and invest in...
We've gotten many inquiries today in the wake of The New York Times report <http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/516.html>. (Sorry for the erroneous re-posting...
DaimlerChrysler remains the only major car-maker with a PHEV prototype program. They've built a few vehicles using their Mercedes Sprinter platform (a...
It looks like this episode of the popular "Modern Marvels" show will be informative...our PHEVs were filmed along with lots of other energy solutions. Probably...
We've recently seen several high-profile cases with videos of lithium-ion laptop computer batteries burning at near-explosion intensely. (One highly publicized...
HyBrids-Plus becomes the third after-market company to develop a PHEV Prius. It's using the "nano-lithium" batteries from A123 Systems that received...
Include us among those who felt that while "An Inconvenient Truth" was an effective wake-up call, it fell short in giving audiences a vision of large-scale...
Yesterday saw the Associated Press, Agence France-Press and a Japanese publication apparently independently reporting Nissan's plans, but Reuters did not...
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy has just released a report on the benefits of PHEVs. In the accompanying press release, co-author Theresa...
While we've had several Bay Area localities endorse Plug-In Partners, the press release below, from Plug-In Bay Area (see our coverage of its launch event at ...
This week, Ron Gremban and I and many advocates of electric transportation solutions. will all be in Sacramento for the important California Air Resources...
Bob Lutz, the ultimate auto insider, is now the highest- level executive at General Motors to acknowledge what we've been hearing: that they are working on...
This story will appear in the Sunday, October 1 NY Times automotive section under "Green Tech" Hybrids With a Power Cord: Plug-In Vans Put to the Test By JIM...
We spent two very rewarding days at the California Air Resources Board's Zero Emission Vehicle Technology Review in Sacramento September 26-27. A few days ago,...
Last Thursday, after the three-day California Air Resources Board ZEV Technology hearings, at an ARB meeting, Board Member Ronald O. Loveridge called for a...
Toyota's David Hermance concluded his presentation about the company's position on electric vehicles and hybrids by speaking about plug-in hybrids September 26...
'This extended coverage in a national news weekly gives an excellent up-to-the-minute description of the status of PHEVs. See the URL or print version (should...
The September 20 History Channel show on "Renewable Energy" included four good minutes on CalCars and PHEVs, including video they filmed plus clips from our...
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