Some months ago they set up the competition as Johnson Controls/SAFT versus A123/Cobasys to make the Lithium Ion Batteries for GM's plug-in VOLT. Then they...
... This was for the Saturn Vue PHEV, not Volt. ... This was for Volt packs. ... They're cooperating with A132 on battery design. Continental is still doing...
Unnamed sources say GM is making BIG plans: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atR4ArJR__OI These same sources say such volumes allow a...
I see the Phoenix Electric Pickup is available for fleet sales, but when is it going to be available to the public? Phoenix Electric Pickup * 100+ miles per...
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19181/ I did at last drive a working plugin. The converted car glided noiselessly along the streets of Boston as I...
As of a week or so ago, when I talked to Phoenix, their vehicles still had not received final certification from the feds(that's also true, by the way of...
Actually, they qualify for "type-III" ZEV gold credits, because that way CARB's stupid Alan Lloyd defined fuel cell cars, they would be rechargeable in 10...
Eventually every good "story" is ripe for hype. Now, enter the clowns. Out of the woodwork, from under the rock, trotting in from left field, everyone and his...
On the show called "Living with Ed" on House and Garden TV, which is a green living show centered on Ed Begley and his family, the Phoenix Electric Pickup made...
... Lee, you were lucky to get to drive a working plugin. You didn't say what kind of car it was you drove but, instead talked about GM's Volt. You saw it on...
Yet another electric company start to get the point of the interest of plug-in hybrids. This time it is EDF, one of the major electricity producers and ...
Forbes and others recently stood up to explain why they thought it was important to nourish and maintaining an optimistic attitude toward the subject of...
Volvo ReCharge Plug-In Hybrid will be unveiled officially next week at the Frankfurt Auto Show, it's a plug-in hybrid with a battery-only range of 100 km...
Tweaking is better than nothing. Why would demanding lower emissions jeopardized thousands of jobs? It seems more likely that new jobs will be created as...
Volvo does not have a PHEV, nor does it plan to produce one in the near future. Volvo is going to show a CONCEPT CAR, that like many others, most noticeably...
This comes close to sounding like an announcement. Using lithium-ion batteries which we have been told, may or may not be ready by 2010. Hedging on the actual...
A Brazilian finding attracts attention on magnetically boosted Bioethanol production. http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19412/ More bioethanol means even...
GM Vice Chair Lutz won't allow anyone to ask the hard questions, such as why not use lead acid batteries in the supposed Chevy Volt. Good lead batteries...
Google.org has issued a $10 million request for proposals from for- profit companies to enable widespread commercialization of plug-in hybrid electric...
Note: forwarded message attached. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner; Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote"...
Well, primarily because Chevron won't allow anyone to make NiMH batteries larger than a D cell. Toyota got in a lot of troublel for making the batteries in the...
If the Democrats had any gumption, they would prosecute for restraint of trade, or at least find out why an oil company is allowed to buy control of the...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/06/sunday/main3239838.shtml This is a short video clip that does an unusually good job of covering the subject of...
<rant> If they had any gumption they'd be impeaching lots of people and getting the military out of the middle east. As is, they sit around looking like a...
GM and its minions are ill-informed about batteries in general and EVs in particular. That's only to be expected: GM has a long history of ignoring and...
