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...
Edmunds.com has one of the larger and more diverse automotive websites, including a large section on Fuel Economy http://www.edmunds.com/fueleconomy/. The...
Here are some thoughts about green-tech, plug-in hybrids and what Al Gore calls "climate crisis." This is the text of a blog that you can read and respond to...
Dan Neil is one of our favorite journalists -- his Rumble Seat column is always entertaining and funny; he's a Pulitzer Prize winner who's not afraid to speak...
This article from Canada's largest paper focuses most on the significance of the auto industry's renewed interested in electricity,; surveys some of the other...
This new development shows how much Toyota has benefited from its leadership in hybrids -- and how their marketing reflects a recognition that many Americans...
Nissan, which was interested in PHEVs many years ago, has now included them in its future plans. Nissan's CEO Carlos Ghosn and other executives have been...
This report answers some questions we get all the time. We're going to have to update our FAQ to draw on this authoritative source! However, though the press...
With the growing acceptance of the reality of what Al Gore now calls "Climate Crisis," advocates are focusing increasingly on what we can do. The 1.2...
The number of converted Priuses has reached 24 -- see list at http://www.calcars.org/where-phevs-are.html Here's a Green Cars Congress story and Fairfax's...
This is a significant step toward "validation" -- the process of testing and evaluating components for inclusion in cars. For more about these batteries, see...
From a press release by Plug-In Partners <http://www.pluginpartners.org>: Almost 500 entities have joined the Plug-In Partners National initiative, led by...
Here's another PHEV conversion, this one illustrating that the range extension fuel for a PHEV doesn't have to be gasoline -- it can be diesel or bio-fuels....
The US Department of Energy report continues to get waves of attention -- not only in news stories, but in uncountable numbers of blogs. We ran the Pacific NW...
In the first letter of its kind of PHEVs, this week, 17 Senators and 21 Representatives from both sides of the aisle wrote to Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman...
In Washington, The Energy Department, the President and Congress are all coming together on PHEVs. * Energy Department: Assistant Secretary Andy Karsner says...
Here's the California Energy Commission's announcement; details of the plans for the three-year project will follow. This new Center will be separate from the...
Dan Neil, who writes "Rumble Seat" for the LA Times, hits the jackpot again with a review of the New Nissan Altima hybrid that situates the growing trend for...
This letter is addressed to the 4,122 subscribers to CalCars-News -- and to the hundreds of you who have contributed to the non-profit CalCars.org. It's an...
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