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- X-Prize competition for ultra-efficient car speeds ahead
- X-Prize narrows final field to 43 competing car designs in two classes. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Car, X-Prize, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Biden's home state gets federally supported electric car plant
- Delaware gets Fisker auto factory. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Factory, Car, Electric Car, Delaware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?
- Ford wants it both ways: using less fuel, have fun driving. To that end they are working with some engineers at the University of Michigan to test drive and then virtually test drive hyrbids and electric cars to find what works both for saving fuel, and having fun while...
- Tags: Car, Ford Motor Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Nissan to recycle batteries from electric cars
- Nissan will work with Sumitomo to recycle batteries from Nissan brand electric cars. They say this will allow them to lower the price on their plug-ins. A new venture will be formed to recycle the lithium-ion batteries. In the hybrid and electric car field Nissan is hustling...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Battery, Plug-in, Toyota Motor Corp., Toyota Prius, FORD GOES ELECTRIC Ford Motor, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Carwatchers watching Tokyo
- Arguably the Tokyo Auto Show is now more important than the one that opens the calendar year in Detroit. And the show in Tokyo opens officially on October 21, so that means all the competitors are busy seeding the blogosphere with their hints and leaks and hype. There...
- Tags: Mitsubishi Corp., Subaru, Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- Fuel efficient cars? Hyrbids run over competition.
- Among 2010 model cars available in the U.S. the EPA says nine of the ten best for fuel efficiency are hybrids. Only the Smart Car from Daimler, with really just a two-person capacity, made it into the top ten. Prius again led the fleet. Others in top...
- Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000
- GM Spark, photo courtesy of GM. But, of course, this car will not be sold in the U.S. or Canada. The all-electric Spark will go on sale next year in India. There GM partners with Reva Electric Car Co. The standard combustion engine Spark, sells...
- Tags: India, Car, Electric Car, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Ford finds its car sales hybridizing
- Ford hybrids lift company's car sales in September, bucking industry slump. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Car, Ford Motor Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Cars: the next wave of Japanese electrics
- Wave of new electric and hyrbids coming from Japanese carmakers. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Soak the rich? Ban the Beamer?
- Pity the poor Porsche driver who looks forward to a new model every 150K miles. The next new Porsche may really cost him. That's because the new EPA fuel efficiency standards could levy serious fines for non-compliance cars, not the tiny parking ticket-sized fines of the past. ...
- Tags: Car, Porsche AG, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- European car buyers getting electricified
- The Frankfurt auto show is reflecting a change in the car buyers' interests. A survey in the US recently indicated about half of potential new car buyers would like a hybrid of electric. It appears the mood in Europe may also electrifying. Of course, in neither the...
- Tags: Car, Car Buyer, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Car news from Frankfurt. Color it green.
- CNET has a gallery of some of the new German-made cars debuting in Frankfurt this week. Hybrids, plug-ins, high efficiency cars. Here they come...eventually. Lexus LF. Photo courtesy CNET. There's now evidence that Toyota, maker of the top-selling hybrid Prius, has decided to...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Frankfurt, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Yup, it's E-Up as VW tries to go electric
- VW is unveiling new models at a German car show this week and one of them will be the electric-powered E-Up. Production is to begin in 2013 and the car will have a range of around 80 miles per charge. VW is engineering the car for light weight:...
- Tags: Car, VW, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- 'Mericans say: "Gimme a plug-in"
- A survey of American drivers show many are interested in owning a plug-in electric. The range between reharges needs to be at least forty miles. Major auto makers will begin selling electric cars int he US next year, they promise. Pike Research found that almost half...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Electric cars and "MPG"
- Here's a look at the issues involve dintrying to find a useful metric to measure energy consumption by the next generation of plug-in cars. I've blogged about the recent rival claims by GM and Nissan for their rival electrics, due out in the next two years. GM is...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Electric vehicle grants
- The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Grant, Battery, Electric Vehicle, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Will more expensive gasoline be the salvation of General Motors?
- GM's now saying the fuel efficiency for their plug-in volt will be the equivalent of 230 MPG in city driving. If the EPA concurs that would make the 2010 Volt the first mass-produced car to top the triple-digit MPG barrier. Volt. This preliminary 230...
- Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, General Motors Corp., Volt, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Cash for clunkers? Waiting lists may be next...
- Some dealers are running out of new cars that qualify for the federal "cash for clunker" rebates. Even when it's good news for the auto companies and dealers, the folks in charge of the car industry can't seem to see it coming. What part of "sell me a...
- Tags: Car, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Which clunkers for which new cars?
- The hyrbids are not the most popular cars among those trading in their old vehicles to take advantage of the cash for clunkers. The average MPG improvement for the new car buyers is about 9. More than fifty percent better than many of the old cars to be...
- Tags: Car, Ford Motor Co., Hyrbid, Edmunds, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- More cash for clunkers
- Congress has now passed a bill that adds two billion more dollars to the federal cash for clunkers program. At an average of $4,000 discount per car, that's another half million cars sold. That could mean up to 4% or more added onto expected new cars sales in...
- Tags: Car, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
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