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Electric vehicles and infrastructure and related commentary.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Slate's EV Acid Test: Are electric cars greener?

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Every electric car advocate is asked the same question every day: Are EVs really cleaner, greener, better for the environment? The long tail...
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EV1 Stirs Emotions Decade Later

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An emotional Alexandra Paul, actress who appeared in Who Killed the Electric Car? , is interviewed by Matt Kelley of Next Gear in front of ...
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German Battery, German Electric Car?

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An Agence France Presse report has produced a small flurry of articles this past week, here and here , for example, that has a German compa...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

Th!nk City: Electric Civic for the 21st century?

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Business 2.0's Green Wombat blogger Todd Woody has written up an optimistic report on the Th!nk City titled A Honda Civic for the age of...
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Friday, December 7, 2007

French CO2 Feebate Plan Good News for Electric Cars

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The French government's Ministry of Ecology has instituted a CO2 based "feebate" scheme. Low emission vehicles will receive a...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

EVS23: It's the Plug, Stupid

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John Voelker has posted from EVS23 for IEEE's Spectrum, and he ain't writing about fuel cells. Except to point out that Honda's ...
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Monday, December 3, 2007

Entourage Star Breaks Parking Law in BMW Hydrogen 7

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It's a shame the video on TMZ.com doesn't include the reporter's voiceover, because the narration I heard when the story aired ...
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A123 & LG Chem Battery Packs for Chevy Volt Unveiled at EVS23

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GM-Volt.com is reporting on battery announcements at EVS23. Both A123 and LG Chem/Compact Power have delivered packs to GM for testing in ...
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IEEE Tech Talk: Times They are a'Changin'

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IEEE Tech Talk's John Voelker's report is titled EVS-23: A Surge of Energy for Electric Cars . It is a first comment on the palpa...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

First New Th!nk City Rolls Off Line

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Good news from Norway. Automotive News (subscription required) reports: Think Global has launched production of an electric minicar for Eur...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Fahrvegnügen and fuhgedaboutit: V-Dub Disses Hybrids, Hydrogen & CO2 Concern

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Edmunds Inside Line 's Alistair Weaver interviewed Wolfgang Hatz, the head of powertrain for the entire Volkswagen Group. The title of t...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007

London Calling: Congestion Charge Recharges Electric Cars

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London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingsto...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Oil Flirts Again with $100 a Barrel

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NY Times late Wednesday: Oil prices flirted with the symbolic $100-a-barrel level in overnight trading. Crude oil futures briefly rose abov...
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Andy Grove Advocates Disruption

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In the Wall Street Journal Online, The Informed Reader , Andy Grove, onetime CEO of Intel, discusses corporate "cross-boundary disrupt...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

GM's Bob Lutz Queried

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US News and World Report interviews GM's Bob Lutz. So of all the different technologies GM is working on, how would you prioritize them?...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

LA Times Op-Ed Poses Real Choice Facing California

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The op-ed in today's LA Times (We Need Voltswagens in the print edition; Bring back the electric car online) deserves attention from ...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Th!nk on the Move

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Aftenposten TV news clip of the new Th!nk City here including shots of the assembly line and interview with CEO Jan Olaf Willums. The repo...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Sierra Club California Weighs in for Electric Cars at CARB

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The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) monthly meeting today included the adoption of the State Alternative Fuel Plan . The analy...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Renault to Build Electric Cars in Israel?

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Associated Press is reporting out of Paris (via Forbes.com) that Renault is "studying a possible plan to build a manufacturing plant f...

Volt Project on Track, Says Lutz

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Bob Lutz of GM is in LA. He's meeting with journalists and electric drive advocates. The first report I've seen from the LA Auto S...
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