Today at a Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee hearing, the CEO of battery maker A123Systems unveiled its plans for large-scale conversions of existing...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 2, 2007 5:14 pm
Here's your chance to go to one or two of three extraordinary events in the next two weeks. Readers of CalCars-News have seen mentions of each of these....
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 2, 2007 11:55 pm
The California Cars Initiative announced it has received a $200,000 grant over two years to support its work in educating the public regarding plug-in...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 3, 2007 2:25 am
PHEVs ARE FIRMLY ON THE MAP. (We're still pinching ourselves!) WHAT'S NEXT? (Some of the biggest challenges remain.) WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW? (Please start by...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 3, 2007 5:01 pm
This is the part 2 announcement after A123Systems CEO David Vieau's Senate testimony Monday <http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/753.html>. As of now,...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 4, 2007 7:40 pm
At a major gathering for the oil, gas and electric utilities, each leading utility leader topped the one before with ringing endorsements of PHEVs that could...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 11, 2007 3:29 am
We finally have a minute to say that the May 7th CascadiaMicrosoft Conference on Transportation, Technology, and Energy. "Jump Start to a Secure, Clean Energy...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 11, 2007 2:35 pm
This second annual event, twice as large as last year, includes amazing projects, demonstrations, workshops and presentations. Here's how O'Reilly Media, its...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 16, 2007 10:18 pm
The Air Resources Board staff has published its recommendations for use of $25M in "Alternative Fuel Vehicle Incentive Program" funds allocated last year. This...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 31, 2007 6:39 am
We've been overloaded by multiple out-of-town trips and events, so we're again in catch-up mode for CalCars-News. Below we report on the following news from...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
May 31, 2007 7:15 am
Last Thursday and Friday saw one further step in the extended process of the California Air Resources Board's review of its historic Zero Emissions Vehicle...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 11, 2007 6:07 am
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 11, 2007 7:17 pm
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 13, 2007 8:52 pm
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 17, 2007 11:04 pm
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 17, 2007 11:32 pm
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 18, 2007 2:01 am
CalCars Technology Lead Ron Gremban was at the second European Ele-Drive Transportation Conference at the start of June. (Thanks to Belgian retired engineer...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 18, 2007 4:46 am
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 19, 2007 3:05 am
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 20, 2007 3:34 am
We think the second most important aspect of the RechargeIT announcement (after the broad program itself) is the Google Fleet partnership with Enterprise...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 21, 2007 1:52 am
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:...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 23, 2007 12:07 am
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 23, 2007 12:09 am
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 ...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 26, 2007 12:10 am
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 26, 2007 5:39 pm
In May 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy held its first PHEV Stakeholders Workshop. (We reported on it and pointed to the presentations at ...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 26, 2007 6:08 pm
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...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 28, 2007 6:59 am
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 ...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 29, 2007 4:31 pm
For the first time, we have a statement revealing what Toyota thinks about hybrid conversions. So far, over 50 Priuses have been "green-tuned" (see...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 29, 2007 5:15 pm
PG&E has just launched ClimateSmart -- a way for individual and business customers to voluntarily neutralize greenhouse gas emissions associated with their use...
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Felix Kramer
felixkramery
Jun 30, 2007 8:37 pm
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...
