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,...
In the past, Toyota has disclosed it is "developing" PHEVs; now, to placate eager customers, it says it's also "doing consumer research." Could this be a...
A year ago, President Bush promoted PHEVs in his Advanced Energy Initiative. Ten months ago the Energy Departments held its first-ever workshop on PHEVs last...
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has been a long-term supporter of plug-in hybrids, beginning with its early projects with Prof. Andy...
GM has disclosed that its "internal production target" for its Volt series hybrid is sometime in 2010. That means if the project is successful, that could be...
Washington's Public Policy Institute says, "If government takes a few smart steps to help spur their commercialization, plug-in hybrids could easily become an...
Is this unprecedented? A startup automaker sees the benefit of working with today's coalitions of car-buyers/drivers/early adopters, technologists, companies...
We've just posted our long report on this event...maybe Edmunds' Consumer Editor Philip Reed (who has written several times about PHEVs -- search for Edmunds...
On Monday, March 12, General Motors, working to introduce two production PHEVs, assembled its top team of engineers and battery partners to explain the issues...
This profile of one of the battery-makers working with GM doesn't mention the important, related information: that its are already powering conversions by...
Long-time journalist Jim Motavalli surveys the current prospects for green cars in a cover story in E Magazine. Motavalli wrote "Forward Drive: The Race to...
We reported Monday on the media briefing GM held on its battery development program for the Saturn Vue and Chevy Volt PHEVs in development. This was followed...
Automakers in Washington claimed that greater efficiency would cost them tens of billions of dollars -- instead of seeing that it's the way they would save...
In last week's parade of auto industry executives in Washington, Toyota stood somewhat apart from the others in endorsing increases in corporate average fuel...
Edmunds.com's Consumer Advice Editor Philip Reed run's the giant automotive website's Fuel Economy area -- see <http://www.edmunds.com/fueleconomy>. From a...
Plug-In Bay Area's activities ratcheted up significantly today with an press conference jointly sponsored by Sililcon Valley Leadership Group. We were most...
We've been an admirer of Berkeley's prolific and renewably resourceful Prof. Dan Kammen for years. Recently the always-quotable Kammen responded aptly to the...
The business magazines and the business sections of many daily newspapers are covering the climate crisis. Fortune Magazine's cover says it all: "The only...
The Detroit News has another perspective on that media briefing we reported on last week (see <http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html>). The reporter goes...
We and others until recently have downplayed the potential of "V2G" because we thought people might see it as futuristic, but it turns out that it's more than...
When people write to ask how they can help, we often suggest they contact their local media. This result is from by Jim Simon, the director of marketing,...
This week the auto-makers met with President Bush, once again pointing to their support for flex-fuel vehicles as their main answer to high oil prices and...
As auto-makers edge closer to considering plug-in hybrids, we sometimes find their comments bewildering. Here's an example, from Ford's Executive Vice...
The Supreme Court has ruled that greenhouse gases are polluting emissions subject to regulation by the US Environmental Protection Agency. As a result, new...
Apologies to all for the multiple copies of one email from last week. We archive our messages at <http://www.calcarsorg/news-archive.html>, but we had no...
Ever since the spectacularly successful Ansari X-Prize inspired 26 teams to build spaceships, people have been talking about extending the concept to...
Although Ford has announced PHEV concept cars (see curious report below), it appears the company has decided it too needs to be able to say that it, like GM...
Today's San Jose Mercury News is all about getting clean cars. On the bottom of the front page is PG&E's announcement that it is the first utiltiy to jump into...
