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...
You know you've arrived when they write the books. There are now at least eight volumes about or at least with multiple pages on PHEVs. So we made a new page...
Toyota has outdone itself -- this time, advancing the discussion within the auto industry on the future of V2G. The company's reservations are less significant...
Last week, two top automotive journalists test drove PHEV Priuses, and both of them came out smiling and writing quotes that would sell lots of tickets if they...
On Saturday, the House passed an energy bill containing substantial provisions involving plug-in vehicles. If these pass, carmakers will have enormous...
Two influential publications each get how the car world works: everyone watches what everyone else does. After years in which the answer plug-in advocates got...
Tthe Advanced Energy Consortium has sponsored a number of plug-in hybrid school buses sponsored by -- see <htpp://www/calcars.org/where-phevs-are.html> for a...
A week's vacation finds auto analysts changing the odds on who will be first. Now the handicappers put GM in the lead. (What a change: even six months ago it...
Following just-posted roundup of news about GM and the race for PHEVs <http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/819.html>, below are the latest developments from...
As auto leaders experience the imminent entry of electrification into their industry, they're seeing disruptive business models. Business 2.0 recently reported...
Here's are several favorable mentions of PHEVs that will interest diverse audiences.. Two from Michelle Krebs, a veteran auto analyst for 25 years for The New...
Two entertaining weekend reading articles from new green-mall media websites that have chosen to feature coverage of PHEVs in their launch or beta issues. The...
Plug-In Partners recently sent out a great report on the status of the national campaign for "soft" fleet buy orders. We were struck by one phrase that started...
Most of the news recently has been about GM and Toyota, but don't count Ford out. Here's a story from the Detroit Free Press about Ford (and GM and battery...
Here's an inspiring example of the creative energy of PHEV advocates and CalCars supporters! It turns out that NY Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof's ...
Another great addition to your bookshelf: this one by a personal hero of mine for years: S. David Freeman, the maverick who has been at the center of many of...
This is a report to make GM's competitors look up in surprise. Though such an aggressive scale causes palpitations in some battery experts, both of GM's...
EVWorld.com's Editor/Publisher Bill Moore recently conducted an important interview with Visionary Vehicles' Malcolm Bricklin. At EVWorld.com, 3,400 Premium...
In this illuminating and entertaining article right in the middle of Page 1, the Chevy Volt and other plug-in cars are cited as a way to meet Europe's new...
Here are reports on four new PHEVs: the Ford Escape Hybrid is one of a number of conversions on that platform. Long-awaited "bucket trucks" from Eaton for...
More great news: * Toyota puts a price tag on the selling price increment for a PHEV: $5-$10K. That's better than we've heard in the past, and closer to our...
The IEEE (the acronym is pronounced pronounced Eye-triple-E) is hosting a major symposium on PHEVs and has also released an important report. The one-day...
Plug-in hybrids are getting increasing attention from environmental groups that until now have been focusing largely on standard hybrids. Here are a few...
For your reading enjoyment this holiday weekend, here's a roundup of recent not-to-be-missed news and information: * Transcript of GM's 30-second radio ad for...
As the awareness and support for PHEVs in the US has grown, we're taking that message internationally. (Our foreign language translations of our Home,...
PHEVS COME TO ICELAND In European countries where fuel costs over $5/gallon, our 100+MPG message (translated to 40+ kilometers/liter plus electricity)...
Not only do we now have an explicit carmaker PHEV "race to be first" -- we're also seeing an emerging competition over technical solutions. This development is...
Here's the official announcement we'd heard about last week: Toyota is starting with France and then perhaps adding other European participants (EDF has...
Volvo, owned by GM, which continues to say it's moving the entire company to electric transportation, will show a different kind of PHEV at the Frankfurt Auto...
