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...
Apologies....in the Swedish car industry, it's Saab that's a unit of GM. Now that we've straightened out our wheels, one additional comment: we hope what we...
The news is coming fast and furious on PHEVs....in addition to developments at major carmakers, a number of independent efforts aim to build "clean sheet"...
Our next conversion project, next week, will put the spotlight on what's possible with advanced nickel-metal hydride batteries as we convert a car in two days...
Here's an important new development. American Electric Power, one of the nation's largest coal-burning utilities is spending $27M to buy six one-megawatt...
GM is making PHEV news in many areas: * Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said GM would start putting the Chevy Volt on the road for testing in the U.S. in 2008. And Lutz...
With GM accelerating its development of the Chevy Volt, and the Saturn Vue also apparently on track, Toyota, which at times has confidently said it intends to...
At the RechargeIT launch -- see our multiple posts from mid-June 2007 at http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html -- Google.org said in addition to its own...
EVWorld reports on a very interesting study, showing how high is the awareness and interest in PHEVs. A few notable points showing high level of interest but...
Here's a great 10.5-minute CBS News Sunday Morning Current Affairs story on PHEVs and EVs, plus a transcript of the show. We encourage you to watch it online...
Irv Miller, Toyota's Group Vice President, Corporate Communications, continues to encourage broad discussions with the communities of PHEV and V2G advocates as...
Rocky Mountain Institute and its founder/chief scientist, Amory Lovins, have had an incalculable impact on the way we think about technology and society. From...
Silicon Valley Leadership Group (whose members include "200 of the Silicon Valley's most respected employers that collectively provide nearly 250,000 local...
In addition to electricity being "cheaper and cleaner" than gasoline, it's also "domestic." Less than 3% of the electricity we generate in the US comes from...
Somtimes the news comes too fast for us to keep up. Here's a roundup. - Conde Nast Portfolio's 5 page story on Green Cars - Conde Nast Traveler's overview of...
Wow -- four new books highlighting PHEVs! As the electoral season warms up, books add considerable legitimacy and become important attention-getters for...
At the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Hybrid Center, one of the more comprehensive sources of information on hybrid cars, we're at last seeing pretty...
On Sept. 21, Toyota's VP Irv Miller posted to its Open Road Blog "A Call to Action - Let's Move Forward on Fuel Economy" Toyota endorsed the slightly improved...
You haven't heard from us because I've been overloaded and under the weather. (Thanks for those of you who missed our news and asked!) Here's a start at...
Back in May, we were contacted by the organizing committee for a conference to be held in Iceland in September. "Driving Sustainability" would focus on the...
This is a long-awaited next step on "Vehicle-To-Grid:" to actually get some V2G-capable cars on the road for testing. It's big news that a demonstration fleet...
The just-published "Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility" has changed my mind more than anything I've read in...
Three carmakers weigh in today on PHEVs with new "positioning." The big development is Honda's latest response, echoed by Renault-Nissan: "don't ask us to...
