In a most welcome step, GM has moved several steps closer on selecting lithium-ion batteries for its Volt series plug-in hybrid. Below we include our overall...
PG&E's Sven Thesen, Supervisor for Clean Air Transportation, says the utility expects to buy batteries from plug-in cars (PHEVs and EVs) for secondary...
Late last year, Toyota announced it would slow development of some products due to concerns about maintaining quality levels. We wondered then if this would...
Ever since Toyota and GM said they intended to be first on PHEVs, everyone's been asking, "who will win?" Here's the news in that context: TOYOTA Additional...
Last week and this week on the floor of the Senate is a complex and, of course, controversial, new Energy Bill. Now Senate Fiannce Committee Members Maria...
CalCars Technology Lead Ron Gremban was at the second European Ele-Drive Transportation Conference at the start of June. (Thanks to Belgian retired engineer...
The definitive book (so far) on the booming clean tech industry has just been published -- and PHEVs and CalCars are front and center. Details are the last...
Many people have been waiting to see what would come next from Silicon Valley on PHEVs. Today at a public/ media briefing, Google.org and Google.com announced...
We think the second most important aspect of the RechargeIT announcement (after the broad program itself) is the Google Fleet partnership with Enterprise...
Here are slimmed-down versions of long stories from The New York Times, USA Today, Hybridcars.com, Business 2.0 and TechNewsWorld. As for hometown newspapers:...
We've never before posted so much information on one event, but Google's RechargeIT merits all the attention. We've received many emails thanking us for...
ALEC PROUDFOOT, Google.com The concept of the vehicle-to-grid system is where you can send energy back to the grid from the car or recharge the car from the ...
Our high hopes for the Senate's energy bill have been partially achieved. The petroleum reduction targets are in; many of what we've been reporting on for over...
We frequently hear from people who want to know about how to invest in the nascent PHEV industry. They ask which after-market conversion or battery company to...
PHEV PRIUS IN TEXAS It's a bit more than a month since the May Maker Faire in San Mateo, where our team converted a Prius to a PHEV for the second year in a ...
PG&E has just launched ClimateSmart -- a way for individual and business customers to voluntarily neutralize greenhouse gas emissions associated with their use...
Last week, an amendment including much of the DRIVE Act's provisions, by Reps. Eliot Engel and Jay Inslee, passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Six...
Hybridfest is a gathering that expresses the intense energy of hybrid owners who became organized in the tens of thousands through online venues like Yahoo...
PHEV advocates' campaign to build awareness and support in the US has been successful. These days, the benefits of plugging in, and more broadly, the...
Late Friday we got calls from journalists asking what we know about a Businesswire media advisory. It was an invitation to media to hear Alan Mulally, CEO of...
Here's a very revealing article about the impact of the woes of Detroit automakers on part suppliers. The Detroit Free Press article concludes by citing...
Ford officially joins what the reporter describes as "manufacturers...racing to bring the technology to market" with a prototype Ford Escape Hybrid PHEV that...
CALCARS' OVERALL REACTION This is a welcome and very important baby step. Ford's CEO action in travelling across the country to announce that the company...
News overload? Search for Ford Edison at Google News and get 340 stories. Ford Southern California Edison plug" at Google Blog Search brings 1360 postings. ...
Continuing our international focus, we're happy to announce that our home page and the summary section of the "What Carmakers Say" page is now also in Spanish...
When you see a Detroit Free Press story headlined, "House talk on plug-in cars erupts," you know the plug-in coalition is having an impact. US automakers who...
