Below we include news about Toyota's latest comments, Honda's puzzlement, coverage of PHEVs in Wired Magazine, a strong plug in Newsweek for the Volt and Bob...
Getting back after the holidays to the campaign for plug-in cars, where we now define our goal as "Successful Commercialization of PHEVs ASAP," we're reminded...
Encouraging news of a fund for demonstration projects came just before the holidays from the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable...
We were honored to get a call last week from Montana's Governor Brian Schweitzer, who is working to get Montana and, through the National Governor's...
As the interest in plug-in cars expands internationally, a leading business publication with a global readership surveys the entire scene. We reproduce the...
GM's statements and presentations in the past week have made for some provocative and at times confusing reading. Here's a round-up. WILL VOLT BE READY IN...
We're expecting a number of PHEV entrants to show up at the Detroit Auto Show next week. Here's the first, from China. We also include a front-page story by...
Here's a stunning and very welcome announcement -- an excerpt from the official speech, followed by our comment and then further background. Remarks by...
FISKER/QUATUM: This $100,000 high-performance PHEV-50 will be shown at Detroit. Autoblog Green reports that the vehicle's name is Karma; the report showed up ...
We've been watching the race among automakers shape up, and hearing about competition among batterymakers; this page 2 Wall Street Journal article looks at the...
Most days when you search for "plug-in hybrid" media mentions in the last month at Google News, you get about 200 entries; today, you get 1,200 in the past...
Today Google.org announced a several new initiatives that match its existing projects in scope and innovation. First is the Google.org blog posting by Larry...
Dear Supporters and Fans of Plug-In Cars and CalCars.org We're succeeding in the world's first campaign to create a new type of vehicle -- brought to market by...
The California Cars Initiative (CalCars.org) <http://www.calcars.org> is a Palo Alto-based nonprofit startup of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and...
The Department of Energy's welcome solicitation for deployment of small fleets of PHEVs has stimulated much discussion of how much money it would really take...
There's quite a line-up of PHEV-related events in the coming months. At http://www.calcars.org/events.html we add information as it becomes available. ...
Developments from Wal-Mart, Project Better Place and Tesla may appear to be in the category "And now for something completely different" -- but they're not:...
USA Today's automotive correspondent, James Healey, has been paying increasing attention to PHEVs. This month he's written three stories: one a general story...
We've said that focusing on biofuels for transportation is putting the cart before the horse: it makes sense to first displace as many miles as possible...
Excerpts from some of the top news stories we're tracking: BMW is backing off hydrogen and talking about electric cars; Tesla's second car will be available as...
Another regional effort shows up in the news: North Carolina's Governor Mike Easley has announced the creation of the Advanced Transportation Energy Center...
GM in promoting the Volt, which it calls an "Extended Range Electric Vehicle" (E-REV), and most observers describe as a series PHEV, is continuing to make the...
For the past few years, PHEVs have become a major focus at the society of Automotive Engineers' annual hybrid conference in San Diego. This year, several...
The New York Times, is reporting a possible exciting breakthrough: zero carbon gasoline. Since we're already getting inquiries from people who wonder if this...
Finally, plug-in hybrid aftermarket conversions are becoming available to individuals, not just fleets -- in the San Francisco Bay Area from GreenGears,...
Following on the USA Today story (see http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/918.html ), the Natural Resources Defense Council responded in the form of a blog...
A few days ago, at "PHEVs Analyzed/Debated at Society of Auto Engineers Event" http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/916.html we posted Jack Rosebro's report,...
CalCars just got the opportunity to evangelize the concept of electrification of transportation and offer a quick status report on PHEVs to a very influential...
More automakers are moving toward using lithium batteries in their standard hybrids. This week, GM said it will use lithium batteries from Hitachi in its...
