A silicon solar panel manufacturer has announced plans to close its U.S. plant, another is moving production to China, and a third is downsizing. All three...
A project to develop a new all-electric urban car, that will be affordable for many consumers when it reaches market and manufactured using an innovative and...
USA: Obama on Energy and PHEV USA: IEEE on Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs) Nov 13, 2008 Toyota Prius III web site is up (unveil in about 2 months!) Europe:...
The all new Lexus LFA supercar is not a hybrid, electric drive , fuel cell or even a flex-fuel vehicle. In fact its 4.8 L V10 internal combustion engine...
GM is sponsoring a free open to the public day and DTE energy has arranged for some plugin vehicles to be available for test drives. I will be there all week,...
Because PHEVs use less energy than gasoline-powered vehicles, their effect on the environment is much less than that of vehicles powered by fossil fuels....
http://www.pluginsupply.com/products.htm may be OT for this forum but there is so much knowledge here. I have been waiting patiently for my '04 to reach...
AKRON, OHIO, August 3, 2009 – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have developed an airless tire...
We wanted to build this unique chopper to raise environmental awareness and reflect what the 69,000 employees of Siemens USA are doing to help America stay on...
At the beginning of 2008 Pininfarina and Bolloré set up a 50-50 joint venture with the goal of designing, developing, manufacturing and distributing an...
Ethanol producers asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to boost the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline, but automakers argued...
GENEVA — A companion to the Chevrolet Volt, the battery-powered Opel Ampera, its will be the first battery-powered vehicle in Europe "suitable for everyday...
Even if GM's future is in doubt, news of an Ampera Volt sibling is still more chance for survival of a plug-in in the future, perhaps in today's company or one...
The new Prius will have a Lithium battery Plug-in version in 2010. See this autocar article: http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/238520/ ...
In their presentation of the new Prius they differ by an interesting analysis of the optimum EV mode range, so often exagerated by others even going to claim...
A New-York Times article relates elements about the Toyota Plug-in Prius to come: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/automobiles/autoshow/12toyota.html?_r=\ 1 ...
There is no indication yet about Flex-Fuel capability on the F3DM or the Prius III. Although this is important to make the cars truly renewable in all...
The battery of the Prius III has the electric connections on the right side instead as on the left side for the Prius II. This position would tend to indicate...
For once the home picture of this group can be changed to the new EV mode button of the new Prius III, that is now available to everybody from the start...
Here is an hybricar article on the new Lexus LS 250 H with a few pictures including one presenting the interior where one can see the EV mode button near the...
The other plug-in hybrid of BYD, the F6 DM will be produced and launched this year: BYD expect a stunning near doubling of its car production in 2009, when ...