We met Ron Minsk at one of the Oil Shockwave simulations produced last year by Securing America's Future Energy. Since then he's been paying more attention to...
"Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics, and Portfolios," is a just-published book that places plug-in hybrids right in the...
On Wednesday, at a joint press conference, Rep. Henry Waxman, the new Chair of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, Carl Pope, Executive Director of...
Andy Frank's large SUV PHEVs show the benefits of electrification on large vehicles. Medium-and-heavy-duty vehicles are also be of great benefit: utility...
Despite the President and Department of Energy's strong verbal support for PHEVs, the numbers don't tell the same story. The 2008 Energy Fact Sheet is at ...
Washington State's PHEV advocates have organized two events at the State Capitol. Ron Sims King County Executive and Robert Babik, Director within the Public...
The California Energy Commission announced the establishment of this Center in December <http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/614.html>. Below we reprint from...
PHEVs, Vehicle-To-Grid, and Electric Vehicles are on the program at the San Francisco Cleantech Forum, this year from Feb. 19-21. Sponsor Cleantech Venture...
The next model of the Highlander Hybrid will give drivers the option to push a button upon starting up and thereby defer the start of the internal combustion...
Saying, "Global warming will be the defining issue for humankind in the 21st century," County Executive Ron Sims released a King County Climate Plan heavily...
FIRST, KQED-TV has launched a new science show: QUEST. It's one of the more ambitious (and well-funded) efforts in some time. It includes radio, TV, and...
This story from Wired Magazine, like many others nowadays, is presenting electrification of transportation as a done deal, which of course it isn't. He does...
On Northern California's new "QUEST" show, view 10 entertaining minutes about PHEVs, featuring many CalCars volunteers, Prof. Andy Frank and author Sherry...
Energy Crossroads: Building a Coalition for a Clean, Seecure, and Prosperous Energy Future March 1-3 at Stanford University. This conference is open to the...
The Commonwealth Club's 104th Anniversary and 19th Annual Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner is Thursday, Feb 22, 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco....
This opinion piece is the "consumer version" of an article written for a utility industry trade publication. That article was the basis for the presentation by...
The February 18 New York Times Magazine includes a very long story on Toyota's emerging domination of the world automotive market. It's accompanied by colorful...
A few years ago, celebrities arriving at the Academy Awards in Priuses contributed to the buzz about hybrid cars. This year, the focus includes PHEVs. The...
This is a great introduction to plug-in hybrids. It also tells the story of UC Davis Prof. Andy Frank's own evolution in developing the modern PHEV. Plug-in...
This new information is too unusual to restrict to plug-in hybrid advocates and readers of CalCars-News. We especially encourage Toyota owners to forward this...
There were quite a few different alt-fuel vehicles at Global Green's pre-Oscars event. The especially photogenic Tesla Roadster got much of the attention. The...
This significant event came about iIndependently of the "usual group" of PHEV advocates. High-level individuals based in many federal departments and agencies...
Three of many articles from publications like StarPulse, TVGuide, Teen Hollywood, Cinematical, Female First And thanks to eagle-eyed readers, we now have a ...
On Thursday, Felix Kramer of CalCars, Hal LaFlash of PG&E and Jan-Olaf Willums of TH!NK presented pictures of the future integratio of vehicles and the power...
Detroit's home audience will read, entertainingly, the description of two PHEVs: * a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid that the Japanese automaker doesn't sell * a...
Business Week's March 5 issue has several articles about Toyota. We have three items below. First, a sidebar in which CEO Katsuaki Watanabe confirms that the...
A123Systems is aiming not only at the new cars market (with its development contract with GM for the Saturn Vue PHEV and perhaps the Volt, but also for the...
In August 2006, Chuck Scarborough, Emmy Award-winning host of the NBC NewsChannel4 Evening News in New York, broadcast a 6-minute story on PHEVs, with...
Another in a continuing trend of news articles and automaker statements that at times call PHEVs EVs, at times call both "plug-in vehicles." It appears the...
Here are GM's top executives explaining their plans. Below is a blog posting by GM's Vice Chairman. You'll find many comments since he posted two days ago,...
