Here's a roundup of news stories and other items that have been accumulating. * First, CalCars on Yahoo's home page. "Prepare to Plug in for 100-mpg Hybrids"...
If you've never read anything by physicist Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute <http://www.rmi.org>, author of Natural Capitalism, Brittle...
CalCars and our allies have worked hard to gain support for PHEVs within the environmental community. The response when we started in 2002 was often, "what are...
Today's big news is of course about the election; we will have some comments soon. But meanwhile, GM's Bob Lutz continues to suggest that they'll have...
A serial PHEV is basically an electric vehicle with a range extender engine that recharges the batteries rather than powering the wheels directly. Integrating...
We won't keep sending out every story about GM, but it is important when the hometown papers start writing about it (even from the Washington correspondent)....
The Electric Drive Transportation Association's 2006 conference includes a substantial focus on PHEVs, especially relative to fuel cells. Last year's event in...
PHEVs are great for large vehicles, as Prof. Andy Frank has shown with large SUVs. Odyne Corp is the first company in business building PHEV buses. Below are a...
For a second year in a row, tens of thousands of attendees at the San Francisco International Auto Show November 18-26, will be able to see a CalCars plug-in...
It's just come to our attention that before the enactment of AB32, while the national Sierra Club organization has not yet developed a new position on PHEVs,...
As a long-time fan of Monty Python, I would always read an article with this title. It turns out to be a very thoughtful and entertaining piece that confirms...
It looks like NY State will shortly announce its contracts for conversions. Meanwhile, here's an article describing the trend. Agencies line up for plug-in...
The green car world has lost one of its leaders -- Dave Hermance, probably more responsible than anyone in the US for the successful introduction and adoption...
This new study meshes with the advanced battery evaluation programs under way at Argonne Labs. The previous research reports mentioned, from 2002-2004,...
This story gives CalCars more credit than we deserve for conversions we've been involved in (see <http://www.calcars.org/where-phevs-are.html> for where...
After weeks of preliminary comments by General Motors' Bob Lutz (see <http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html>), and many news stories speculating on what's...
This Washington Post reporter covered our trip last May to Washington to show PHEVs to members of Congress, and in this report, includes comments by Toyota's...
This report (written before the GM news broke) describes what we've heard before: that the President frequently asks Energy Secretary Bodman about PHEVs. It's...
A bit more to supplement what we've already posted about Dave Hermance: an interview with HybridCars.com's Bradley Berman in 2004, when it was not yet clear...
The Marketwatch story is similar to other reports from last week, with an important addition: "In an interview on the sidelines of the show, Wagoner said he'd...
Here's more on GM's announcement from last week. The Red Herring story quotes Jodie Van Horn of Plug-In Bay Area and leading Clean-Tech venture capitalist Erik...
I and my car will be at the Alternative Car and Transportation Expo in Barker Hanger at the Santa Monica Air Center, on Sat-Sun, Dec. 9-10, free admission....
Plug-in hybrids now have much more legitimacy, with GM saying it plans to produce them -- but all car-makers are still far away from commercialization. We've...
This perspective is from Clean Edge, a leading clean-tech research and consulting firm with offices in the San Francisco, Bay Area and Portland, Oregon. We've...
This story includes comments from people at Ford, Toyota, GM, Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. GM's Plug-In Hybrid ...
This report appears in what's been described as the oldest daily newspaper in Japan, selling 4million copies daily, nationally distributed with a strong...
The San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Taylor has been including the environmental aspects of cars for some time. Warren Brown is a more mainstream automotive...
Dave Bagshaw, a long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has signed on as a Senior Advisor to CalCars. He will be actively involved in shaping key initiatives of...
