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...
Here's a report from Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff, followed by the official agenda from the event and some more general comments...
Two rival institutions across the bay come together for a joint conference Plus late notice about our bringing a PHEV for the first time to Santa Cruz County...
The city of Seattle, King County (in which Seattle is located), the Port of Seattle, and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency will all be getting 13 Priuses to be...
Of course, journalists are more inclined to write about their test-drives of "official" cars, even if they're prototypes, rather than after-market conversions....
Some mornings these days, we have to postpone our work plans because of breaking news. Today the news stories came so frequently we could no longer be...
Toyota's new full-page newspaper ads show an open road, green fields, an enormous blue sky, and the headline "WHY NOT?" followed by the poetic: "Two words that...
Page 1 of today's San Jose Mercury News profiles four Silicon Valley companies plus CalCars. That story is a roundup sparked by last week's announcement of "A...
Many people still doubt the credibility of GM's plans for the Chevy Volt. Until now we've only had a production volume attributed to unnamed sources in the...
The PHEV workshop Sunday Dec. 2, before the International Electric Vehicle Symposium conference Dec 3-5, has an all-star speaker list. In addition to this...
Along with the race among carmakers for plug-in vehicles, in the absence of a major Congressional or Executive commitment, we're seeing an emerging regional...
Friday was another red-letter day for PHEV supporters hoping carmakers will accelerate their move toward PHEVs. As we noted Saturday in CalCars-News as part of...
It looks like Volkswagen is joining the race to build PHEVs. At the Tokyo auto show, the company introduced an Audi concept PHEV (report below), and media...
CalCars' Felix Kramer, Ron Gremban and Randy Reisinger have been at the the LA Auto Show, an increasingly important event for the industry. (Last year, it's...
Our public conversion of a Prius was featured outside the LA Auto Show as we partnered with Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange and Plug In America to...
Below is a report jointly written with Jack Rosebro, followed by a few additional comments about GM officials' response to our suggestions. You can also read...
Another long posting with multiple followups from the LA Auto Show * Governor Schwarzenegger talks about, sees and hears about PHEVs for the first time *...
Two of the small entrants in the PHEV race are making progress: Aptera and Fisker both plan PHEV production in 2009. APTERA: Here's the press release; you can...
"The New World War II" below comes from Patrick Mazza of Climate Solutions, the Pacific Northwest think-tank. It's a provocative response to the just-published...
"Google.com and Google.org have just announced one of the most promising new initiatives to address the global climate crisis. I hope the grandchildren of...
