The most global environmental group has just released a milestone report, "Plugged-in: the End of the Oil Age." It's written by an oil industry insider who I...
CARB held its long-awaited meeting on the Zero Emissions Vehicle Program on March 27. Hundreds of advocates were there; many spoke and many more submitted...
One of our ongoing objectives has been to position plug-in cars -- and the broad solution of electrifying transportation -- as key way to globally reduce...
Coming up are three major conferences on plug-in hybrids. We have partial details at http://www.calcars.org/events.html . At our Events Page, we'll also be...
Below is news of a new milestone in the commercilization of PHEVs: the first lawsuit among carmmakers. As awareness of the future market for PHEVs grows, the...
In addition to the Google news below, see http://www.calcars.org/events.html for a rundown of Earth Day-themed and other related PHEV events, including: Coyote...
Alexander E. Farrell, one of the leading experts on strategies and solutions for a low-carbon world, died last week at 46. Alex was at the center of a vibrant...
Here are two important events on Tuesday, April 22: a Washington DC policy briefing on PHEVs with high-level participants, and an entertaining segment of the...
For some time, we've been saying that getting California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's attention about plug-in cars would be critical in achieving our goals...
Big news from Hymotion below, but first our overview: Ever since CalCars first turned a Prius into a PHEV in Fall 2004, we've been promoting conversions as...
Here are quick promos on two events plus the full schedule for a third, the PHEV conference in Wenatchee. This weekend, we'll be at our fourth Maker Faire...
As enthusiasm and support builds for plug-in cars, we're having a hard time keeping up with and refuting distracting articles sounding alarms about raw...
Here's a roundup of news about two conversion companies (Hymotion and Hybrids Plus) and two battery makers (A123System, including reports of a possible IPO,...
We've fallen behind on news... below are some of the important reports we've seen. We're providing mainly URLs and headlines rather than full texts. CONTENTS: ...
Nissan, which long ago was one of the first automakers to be interested in plug-in hybrids, is back and in the race for PHEVs. After years of skepticism about...
Next week we'll be at the GreenWest conference and expo http://www.greenwestexpo.com/ at the Los Angeles Convention Center. On Tues-Thurs, at Expo Hall Booth...
Top bipartisan elected officials are speaking -- along with advocates, officials and automakers from Michigan, California, Japan and elsewhere..... Below is...
It's a milestone day. GM's CEO has announced that the Board of Directors has OK'd mass production of the Chevy Volt beginning in late 2010 -- moving that date...
For several years, many Prius owners have been telling their dealers "I want a hybrid that I get to plug in." For the past two years, Prius dealers have been...
Silicon Valley has made history in the early development of radio, aviation, aerospace, computers and the Internet (each time, it must be pointed out, not...
US ENERGY DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES PROJECTS As part of its growing commitment to PHEV projects, in early 2008 USDOE announced it was soliciting bids for projects...
HAS TOYOTA COMMITTED TO MASS PRODUCTION PHEVS? Many auto industry observers think Toyota will stay in the race to be first with PHEVs, or will follow closely...
I'd hoped to combine this with a report on the Google/Brookings conference but that's not done. Meanwhile: The presentations from the 2008 Power Up! ...
CONVERSIONS AND SAFETY CalCars has been promoting conversions of vehicles to PHEVs for several years -- not as an end in itself but as a strategy to build ...
The June 11-12 conference, "Plug-In Electric Vehicles 2008: What Role for Washington" confirmed the full emergence of PHEVs. Plug-in cars are now seen as a...
We've often said people don't buy hybrids for paybacks -- they're buying "the environmental feature," just like people buy leather seats -- or for that matter,...
Big news today: we start with some background about the candidates and plug-in cars, then we go to what each candidate has said in the past few days, with our...
More below from Intel's former CEO Andy Grove: this story is now running at the Chicago Tribune's website and should get broad distribution Sunday and Monday....
Following up on our June 23 report on McCain's proposals, http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/966.html here is the latest. As we had expected/hoped, the...
For your Independence Weekend enjoyment to hold your interest while we work on an overall "carmakers" update covering recent developments among automakers: *...
