Reimagining the Automobile Industry by Selling the Electricity, 2007-10-29 10:30:23 Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley technologist who was in competition to become chief executive of SAP, one of the world's largest software companies, has re-emerged with a grand plan to reinvent the world's automobile industry around battery-powered all-electric cars. ...Bookmark tags: technology, cars, energy, greenvine, alternative-energy, batteries, electric-cars Video: Chevy Volt Chief Engineer Talks Electric Cars, 2008-01-14 12:01:03 Andrew Farah, Chevy Volt Chief Engineer, General Motors, helped to developed General Motors' early EV1 electric vehicle. He's now chief engineer of the Chevy Volt electric vehicle project. ...Bookmark tags: business, video, cars, gm, general-motors, vehicles, electric-cars, Chevy, chevy-volt, ev1 Cost of converting entire U.S. to electric cars? Zero., 2008-05-27 20:00:41 Instead of sending $400 billion each year to countries such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, we could spend it on electric car production in the U.S., Mexico, and China. At current oil prices, it wouldn't cost us a dime extra to stop importing and burning oil for passenger cars. ...Bookmark tags: science, china, oil, cars, mexico, venezuela, saudi-arabia, electric-cars Google philanthropy funds Aptera and ActaCell, 2008-07-23 18:30:20 Google.org is investing $2.75 million into electric-vehicle maker Aptera and battery start-up ActaCell. ...Bookmark tags: technology, google, cars, auto, hybrid, vehicles, electric, electric-cars, green-tech, plug-in Chevy Volt is unveiled, 2008-09-16 13:30:31 General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle on Tuesday, allowing outsiders their first full look at the car GM says will go on sale in 2010.
"The Volt symbolizes GM's commitment to the future," said Rick Wagoner, the company's chairman and CEO. ...Bookmark tags: technology, cars, Chevrolet, electric-cars, Chevy, volt, chevy-volt, autmobiles, efficient-cars Neil Young: How To Save A Major Automobile Company, 2008-11-15 00:00:10 Find a new ownership group. The culture must change. It is time to turn the page. In the high technology sector there are several candidates for ownership of a major car and truck manufacturer. ...Bookmark tags: us-news, environment, cars, automobiles, electric-cars, green-living, green-cars, neil-young, automobile-industry, green-car Chinese BYD Launches World's First Mass Produced Plug-in Hybrid, 2008-12-21 10:00:03 The Chinese company is called BYD (Build Your Dreams) and is now selling the F3DM plug-in hybrid in its home country. The vehicle has a full electric range of 60 miles on a full battery. ...Bookmark tags: world-news, china, oil, cars, green, hybrid, eco-friendly, electric-cars, plug-in-hybrid, evironment EMC Launches Affordable Electric Vehicle Based on Dacia Logan | Electric Vehicles, 2010-02-07 06:20:07
The world's first electric Pick-up, EMC (Electric Motor Cars), built on a Dacia Logan platform, brought to the U.S. by Envision Motor Co., has been presented by Des Moines Motors, an ex-Chrysler dealer. ...Bookmark tags: us-news, cars, car, truck, trucks, electric-cars, electric-car, pick-up, pick-ups NUMMI Plant to get New Life from Aurica Motors, 2010-03-12 01:20:07
Although it's scheduled to close at the end of the month, the NUMMI assembly plant -- previously home to a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors -- may be revived by , a start-up firm looking for a production base to build electric vehicles. ...Bookmark tags: business, california, cars, automotive, gm, toyota, general-motors, electric-cars, alternative-fuel, fremont Saviour or Shambles - can the electric car finally make it to the mass market?, 2010-04-13 17:20:09 The electric car has been in our lives for centuries. It was more than a hundred years ago when the first fleet of electric vehicles hit the streets of New York in 1897, thanks to British inventor Thomas Parker who created the first car of its kind years earlier, in 1884. ...Bookmark tags: technology, cars, autos, automobiles, auto-industry, electric-cars, electric-car, car-industry, electric-auto, aotomobile-industry This IS His Grandfather's Bug, But Now It's Electric, 2010-07-31 13:20:09 If the Chevy Volt's $40,000 price tag sounds a bit too steep, you could always go the do-it-yourself route of Oregon teenager Ashton Stark.
He just finished a year-long conversion of his grandfather's 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle into an electric car. ...Bookmark tags: us, cars, auto, automobile, volkswagen, electric-cars, vw, chevy-volt, vw-bug, 1972-volkswagen-super-beetle With a little help, electric car tackles cross-Canada tour, from Atlantic to Pacific, 2010-09-03 18:20:02 Mitsubishi Motors is in the process of being the first to drive an all-electric car across Canada – from Atlantic to Pacific. ...Bookmark tags: technology, canada, cars, renewable-energy, green-energy, electric-cars, electric-car, Mitsubishi, renewable-fuel, i-miev |
