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...
We weren't sure if we should trouble our listmembers with the news that Toyota may make some news. But because Toyota is the technology leader in hybrids, and...
San Diego Gas & Electric joins Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and Sacramento Muncipal Utility District in having PHEVs to evaluate and...
"Public conversions" are now becoming fashionable -- one yesterday and one today in San Diego captured three columns on the front page of the San Diego Union...
We just finished listening to a press conference in Washington, DC, to announce the release of the long-awaited study that finally gives conclusive answers to...
More indications that we might expect an announcement from Toyota this fall. Green Car Congress has done us the favor of translating a story appearing in the...
Add to previous cover stories in the LA Times Magazine, eMagazine and Popular Mechanics one more; this time, it's a single-theme issue for Co-op America...
Here's an much-clearer, official English-language variant of the article we posted to CalCars-News yesterday. It's already gotten lots of attention, but if you...
CALCARS REACTION: Toyota's announcement confirms we can have plug-in hybrids now, with today's technology and today's infrastructure. We've been working for ...
We based our initial comments on news reports that the vehicles would be tested both in Japan and the U.S., but this official announcement says the company...
The California Air Resources Board held a workshop on Tuesday in Sacramento to get opinions about future directions for the state's Zero Emissions Vehicle...
It's nice to be appreciated...especially by people whose cars we've green-tuned without permission in order to show how to make good cars better! Here, on the...
Do we spot a trend? Reporters are increasingly using "plug-ins" to encompass plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles. Plug In America emphasizes a single...
We've had a good bit of technical discussion about the new "Toyota Plug-in HV" over at <http://www.eaa-phev.org> the Electric Auto Association Plug-in Hybrid...
We're working to catch up on media coverage, so this report doesn't include the past few days of news and analyses. But some of these, including multiple...
While it's often not true that "no news is good news;" it may be true that "any publicity is good publicity." Under that principle, we're glad to see that the...
In this four-minute video, with judicious use of the Pause button, you can see several aspects of the new Toyota Plug-in HV display screen, including breakouts...
The race to transform the automotive industry is happening on many levels. Now the Automotive X-Prize has announced the names of 31 initial teams that have...
Coal is at the heart of two intertwined issues important to PHEV advocates: * Can we develop a transitional strategy to power vehicles (and many other human...
