Today at a Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee hearing, the CEO of battery maker A123Systems unveiled its plans for large-scale conversions of existing...
Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders, presents an hour on the future of hybrids, Monday, 3PM Central, (1PM Pacific, 8PM Greenwich Mean or Universal Time). And...
James R. Woolsey of Booz Allen Hamilton, former CIA director and wearer of many other hats, is one of the thought leaders of the PHEV coalition that he now...
Popular Mechanics has written about PHEVs several times before (see <http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html>, but this time, the cover frames a photo of an ...
TV, radio and photos are also accumulating fast... * Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, famous for introducing the Mustang at Ford and the minivan at Chrysler,...
We've had so much going on I haven't been able to do justice to external news. So here's a shortcut summary. Conveniently, Autopia/Wired Blog Network writer...
Two new recent developments in batteries announce programs that, while small, indicate growing interest in battery development. Both reports are from Green Car...
We're very backlogged on sending out news, will work to catch up this week! Here's the most important news: reports from the California Air Resources Board now...
A month ago Visionary Vehicles announced its intention to partner with the plug-in hybrid community and CalCars as it works to bring Chinese-made PHEVs to...
The Wall Street Journal has been slower than other media in reporting on PHEVs, though it did a lengthy profile on Andy Frank after the launch of Plug-In...
Two days before Step It Up on Saturday, <http://stepitup2007.org> shows 1364 registered events in 50 states. This is a National Day of Climate Action to...
One of the more puzzling news stories (see our previous April 8 posting <http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/739.html>) -- that Pres Bush and Vice Pres. Cheney...
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...
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...
Ever since the spectacularly successful Ansari X-Prize inspired 26 teams to build spaceships, people have been talking about extending the concept to...
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...
The Supreme Court has ruled that greenhouse gases are polluting emissions subject to regulation by the US Environmental Protection Agency. As a result, new...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Plug-In Bay Area's activities ratcheted up significantly today with an press conference jointly sponsored by Sililcon Valley Leadership Group. We were most...
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...
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...
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...
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