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- GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000
- it would be nice......if GM would sell these cars in North America...just my two centsRE: GM to sell small electric car for less than $6,000It aggravates me. Why is the US the last one to get this type of innovation that is affordable. I WANT ONEOh yeah people in a...
- Tags: car, General Motors Corp., electric car, small electric car
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Smart Planet: Electric vehicle charging stations, the new gas pump?
- Electricity powered cars: NOT environmentally friendlyIt costs more (=takes up more resources) to set up and maintain the electricity infrastructure and to produce the electricity, than to use normal gas.Same goes for the electric car. You have to look at the whole lifecycle concept, which also includes design and manufacturing...
- Tags: car, electric vehicle
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- They're still pushing hydrogen
- General Motors is heralding a milestone for their hydrogen-powered cars still in road testing. Under current political conditions the hydrogen fuel cell car looks almost perfect: it emits H20. No carbon, sulphur or nitrous emissions. It burns hydrogen which is almost infinitely available from hydrolysis. And that in...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Windmills stir up opposition
- In many parts of the U.S. you can't simply put up a windmill to generate electricity for your own use. Grandpa may have used one to pump water out on the farm, but now it's NIMBY time. After all, one of them might topple over and kill the...
- Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- 'Mericans say: "Gimme a plug-in"
- Pay more, yes...Pay more than the gas price we would save over the life of the car, no. That's the issue now, you do not save more in the long run. Once we get to the point where we would merely break even, then I would seriously consider a plug-in.Electric...
- Tags: Plug-in car, car, plug-in, electric car, battery, commute, No.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Electrics from Japanese carmakers
- Volt is not electricVolt should be considered as Hybrid. It has gasoline engine, Leaf is pure electrics. Volt is not electricVolt is propelled by an electric motor.The gasoline engine produces electricity for the electric motor, it does not propell the car. You could reason that "electric" cars...
- Tags: Engineering, Volt, car, gasoline engine
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?
- Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?Tragic endIf GM had been allowed to conduct its affairs based on its own marketing expertise, I would have assumed it would do just fine, once the onerous union agreements were modified.Now, it appears to be doomed. The corporate management puppets are echoing...
- Tags: Government, Engineering, NOW IT, Volt, General Motors Corp., battery
- Discussion threads 2009-07-10
- 2009 Lexus GS 450h
- Photo gallery:2009 Lexus GS 450h Our perfect power train combines high performance with excellent fuel economy, an ideal that the 2009 Lexus GS 450h comes the closest of any car we've seen to delivering. Lexus claims 5.2 seconds to 60 mph, yet this big, comfortable sedan consistently registers fuel economy...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Lexus, Lexus GS
- Product reviews 2009-06-30
- California not politically bankrupt
- California not politically bankruptInterstate CommerceActions like this really blow my mind. The Federal Government abuses the Commerce Clause to uniformly regulate nearly all products that 'can' or 'may' be sold across state lines. Why do they now decide to not enforce uniformity?To me this is just another example...
- Tags: Quality, car, standards, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Taxpayers are NOT bailing out Ford Motor, or are we?
- We all know the sorry saga of two-thirds of the former Detroit Big Three. GM in bankruptcy, shedding brands and trying to become competitive once again. Chrylser is now essentially a distribution arm for Fiat, a second tier car company that had no American market share a year...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?Green Y2KDennis, needed questions...I asked a similar question couple of weeks ago - are we headed towards a green Y2K?http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/05/the-green-y2k.htmlI was at Gartner then and we were warning the world about Y2K. The bigger the total remediation cost we projected the more...
- Tags: Y2K, global warming, Climate Change, IT SPEND, information technology, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Bright idea needs money
- Bright Automotive wants to green the delivery truck and corporate vehicle fleets of America. If only they can get some money. I recently blogged about Bright's hope to begin production in 2012, both electric cars and delivery vans. They've teamed with a solar company to turn parking...
- Tags: Car, Indiana, Bright Idea, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button.
- An eighteen hundred mile demo tour has begun. Hydrogen powered cars will wend across North America for days, having left from Chula Vista today. The run ends June 3 in Vancouver. Here's the official website for Hydrogen Road Tour 2009. The site includes...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, VW, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Daimler, A-Class F-CELL, Fuel Cell Car, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- 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
- How dead are American hydrogen cars?
- Has the dream of hydrogen-powered cars gone up in a puff of vapor? Has it evaporated? Was it all hot air? It was back in 2003 that the American President asked for over a billion dollars to make our auto fleet more hydrogen-powerful. Some hydro-advocates still...
- Tags: Car, Hydrogen, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Britain tries to electricify its auto industry
- Britain tries to electricify its auto industryThe government could buy everybody Tata carsfor that kind of moneyWell, this is a good move on the British's partAnd on the part of the Americans. There is only one little problem however...... plugin cars can only be driven VERY short distances compared to...
- Tags: car
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- Plug-in cars? Not so easy does it...
- Plug-in cars? Not so easy does it...It's OK to be a contrarianIt's OK to be a contrarian and say this is all bunk, but please present some evidence and cite some references when you do so.It's a waste of our time to be told things like [i]"scientists had a...
- Tags: car, hybrid, Plug-in car, plug-in, fuel cost
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Electric cars in America--the price point
- Electric cars in America--the price pointElectric cars in America--the price pointMy concern in addition to the price of the electric car is where do I plug it in to charge it? If its my house then how much is my electric bill going to be raised while its charging?...
- Tags: C02, disposal, power generation station, electric car, car, price point
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- 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
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