electric car maker

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go America

Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go AmericaIf the Chinese can do it, why not GM? This is the car that GM should build,NOT the super expensive Volt.RE: Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go AmericaWe'll see how great these cars are after they're loaded down with all...

Tags: electric car maker, Go America, Chinese Workers, electric car

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Additional Resources

Brrrrm! Brrrrm! Brammo makes a little noise.

American electric motorcycle maker, Brammo, has built in sound to its vehicle. The chips that manage the operation of this electric motorcycle will create sounds to let folks know you're there. There's a special sound for the acceleration from zero to 10 MPH. You can then customize your...

Tags: Cycle, Motorcycle, Brammo, Enertia, Valence, Chasis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Engineering, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Hybrids to increase market share, but...

Hybrids to increase market share, but...Pretty glacial statements . . .Pretty cold language around here. Why the scare quotes around re-tool? Why the talk about hidden agendas again?Do you just hate them because they exist or something? Is there [b]any[/b] way they could earn your trust?Now that they're finally turning...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, battery, X-REV, hybrid, car, electric vehicle

Discussion threads 2009-05-31

2009 Lexus IS 350

Photo gallery:2009 Lexus IS 350Further shedding its image as a maker of boring luxury cars, Lexus turns its 2009 IS 350 into a tuner car. The IS 350 already featured fairly sporty performance, but now you can add bolt-on performance parts from the company's F Sport accessories, similar to the...

Tags: IS 350, Lexus

Product reviews 2009-05-20

News to know: Pawned browsers; IE 8; Sun and IBM, Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari CanSecWest: Caution, community at play Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sam Diaz, Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Web Browsers, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Notebooks & Tablets, Security

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go America

We've read about many Chinese manufacturers cutting back, laying off, feeling the pinch of reduced consumption in the U.S. Bucking the general trend: BYD. They are a Chinese car maker and plan to introduce their plug-in electric car in the U.S. in 2011. Of course, one of...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, BYD, F3DM, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-18

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Detroit reaches dead end unless White House intervenes

It's all over but the recriminations and finger-pointing. This calendar year there'll be ZERO loans approved in Congress for the Detroit Shrinking Three automakers. Any federal action to prevent the threatened implosion of General Motors, still the number one selling auto maker in the U.S., will have to come...

Tags: Automobile Company, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Harry Fuller, Management, Manufacturing, Strategy, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department Of Treasury, White House

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiency

Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiencyOh absolutely!Of course you won't mind when other countries take exactly the same view and don't import without really high tariffs goods from the US will you? ;)RE: Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiencywhat the government needs to do is put a stop...

Tags: Free trade, Chapter 11, fuel efficiency, worker, UAW

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT Job

GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT JobNot just CAFEI think it's more than CAFE, it's also the myriad of safety/crash regulations and other government requirements that the auto makers have to meet that makes it harder. How do you think the WWII jeep would do in a side impact test?...

Tags: information technology, General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC, car

Discussion threads 2008-11-08

Electric cars on the streets

I took these pictues in the driveway of a home in Dulwich, South London, Britain. The car is called the Gee-Whiz i. It's being marketed by GoingGreen. The prices on these little two-seater, all electric cars runs from 9465 to just over 11,100--British...

Tags: Car, London, Battery Life, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edgeGreat to see Google forcing Apple to be more open. Hopefully Apple will beforced to also unlock the applications so you do NOT need Apples approval to offer an application.RE: Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edgeApple will only be as open...

Tags: Branding, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iPhone NDA, T-Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

News to know: Palin's email hacked; Seinfeld-Microsoft; Tech meltdown; Visual Studio

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online Adam O'Donnell: Don't be the next Sarah Palin (security victim, not VP candidate) Wikileaks: Sarah Palin...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Brondell, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, E-mail, Remote Access, Cloud Computing, Blogging, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Internet, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has convinced green car maker Tesla Motors to build a proposed $250 million facility in north San Jose, adding approximately 1,000 clean-tech jobs to his community by 2010. The deal will be disclosed today during a press conference in California. The first...

Tags: Car, San Jose, Clean Technology, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Clean-tech Job, Mayor Reed, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Perhaps never has the Detroit auto industry faced such a challenge. Not from the small cool VW beetle in the 1960s. Not from the onslaught of Datsun and Toyota a decade later. Not from the Honda Civic in the Nineties. This time the challenge is not...

Tags: Gasoline, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller, Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Therapy

Blog posts 2008-06-27

America's ready. Where's the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?

The American consumer has spoken: give us smaller or lighter or more efficient cars. Not some day. Now. But as is too often the case, the public is way ahead of the business and marketing folks. Example: my daughter's old car recently developed serious...

Tags: Fuel Cell, America, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp., American Consumer, Fuel Cells, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-01

Zap to do three-wheeled car in 2009

Zap to do three-wheeled car in 2009Helooooo - anybody home?!?!?!Seriously - why not a . . . . . . . . sedan?No, seriously, we don't need new body styles for the electric car. They work fine with existing body styles."Until recently, three-wheelers have occupied a niche of a...

Tags: Tesla Roadster, ATV

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

ECOtality snaps up maker of fast-charge batteries

Renewable energy company ECOtality has added yet another company to its clean tech portfolio. Its latest acquisition is Minit-Charger, a maker of rapid charge battery technology for lift trucks and material handling systems that was a subsidiary of Edison International and that had revenue of $5.16 million...

Tags: Battery, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Electric car, solar installer get debut as Vogue props!

Tucked away in my ridiculously ad-plump Vogue magazine from September just now got around to skimming was a mini-feature called “Power Players� about some green tech principles. Because I’m still in ramp-up/reading mode, I visited the Web for more information on two of the companies featured in the photo spreads....

Tags: Vehicle, Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-10-04