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: *...
News of three major events: * Former Intel CEO Andy Grove has been added as a keynoter to the international conference on plug-in cars. * The third annual...
The Sunday Washington Post Op-Ed page, has An Energy Policy We Can Stick To by Andy Grove, arguing for a transition to electrification of transportation and...
It's happened: the candidates are now facing off on PHEVs. For the previous round, see our July 1 posting, "Obama/McCain/GM/Ford Maneuver for Support on PHEVs"...
Al Gore gave a major climate speech today, urging an enormously ambitious program to create an electrical generation system powered entirely by renewable...
It's official: look at the headline and the story, which includes a specific matchup of the candidates' positions on PHEV policy! (See our previous reports in...
Here's an interview from Bloomberg News with Andy Grove the day before he delivers a keynote address at http://www.plugin2008.com in San Jose, followed by a...
In the first of several roundup postings about Plug-In 2008, we present lots of news from companies at the Plug-In 2008 Conference. All the citations below are...
This formal reply to proposed regulations by the California Air Resources Board was written by CalCars Technical Lead Ron Gremban following discussions with...
Every newspaper in the country is reporting about the "Gang of 10" -- Republican and Democratic Senators working to gain support for a grand compromise. If...
David Morris has written frequently about plug-in hybrids. This happens to be a particularly readable and comprehensive review that also includes plug-ins'...
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