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- (Photos: Electric vehicles you can buy right now)10 Million New Electrical Bike in China in 2007What else more need to be said? I am driving e bike everyday in China. It is available everywhere, Walmart etc. The main reason is price compared to automobile, around USD 120.
- Tags: Electric Vehicles, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
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- 2010 Lexus RX 450h
- Photo gallery:2010 Lexus RX 450hRemember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza said, "I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable?" Well, sitting in the 2010 Lexus RX 450h is like being draped in velvet, and, with the economical hybrid drivetrain, it is socially responsible. Lexus vehicles show...
- Tags: Lexus
- Product reviews 2009-11-03
- Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient
- RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Plug in vehicles in Motor City
- The Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit brought together about a dozen types of electric vehicles. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Electric Vehicle, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-10-22
- 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
- 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
- Uncle Sam: less wasteful?
- At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Smart Planet: Electric vehicle charging stations, the new gas pump?
- President Obama predicts there will be 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. But what will the infrastructure look like to run these vehicles? Coulomb Technologies CEO Richard Lowenthal is building new network charging stations for electric vehicles and demonstrates how users will be able to one day...
- Tags: Electric Vehicle, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Cleantech draws more investments in Q3
- Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- What value research? In this case a cool billion dollars.
- Research at MIT led to the founding of A123 Systems. That company just went public to the tune of a billion bills. A123 Systems is in the rechargeable battery biz, a sweet spot these days. It was founded eight years ago with a $100,000 federal grant. My,...
- Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, Rechargeable Battery, A123 Systems, A123Systems, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- 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
- VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit
- Despite the billions in loans and bailouts and the much abllyhooed re-org of Chrysler and GM, some prominent Silicon Valley investment leaders find Detroit's auto industry hopeless and heedless of the needed innovation. They see a new American auto industry far away in miles and mentality from Detroit once-bug-three....
- Tags: Detroit, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- '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
- Cleantech award winners
- The Cleantech Group announced two tech winners at the Cleantech Forum XXIII in Boston. exro Technologies won for Most Promising Technology. exro makes Variable Input Electric Generator VIEG, an electrical generator intended to drive down the capital cost of renewable energy while delivering double-digit improvement to...
- Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Johnson Controls Inc., Clean Technology, Exro, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Fossil fuel battle: who'll reign over America's energy future
- Forget renewable energy, apparently the battle for supremacy in your energy future is between Big Coal and Natural Gas. Be aware, the math indicates coal has more Senate votes that natural gas. The energy bill that passed the House earlier this year does not taste good to the...
- Tags: Coal, U.S. Senate, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls
- Chances are you've heard plenty from people like me about the smart grid, which is being funded generously as part of the economic stimulus package. But WHY exactly is the smart grid important? Answering that question is the focus of a new report that was published in August 2009 by...
- Tags: Benefit, Electric Vehicle, Grid, Chances, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Vicious cycle: Climate change stresses grid. Outages occur. Repeat.
- I know that pretty much everyone out there has a very polarized view of climate change. My blogging partner Harry Fuller does a fabulous job of stoking the flames on that issue, so I usually leave well enough alone. But couldn't ignore the irony of a new report sponsored by...
- Tags: Climate Change, Grid, Outage, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- 230 MPG. 367 MPG. Pick a number and market it! Doubts are voiced.
- What difference does it make?I mean seriously, what if its only half that, its still better than anything you can buy today. As to the "hype", is this the first time you have heard marketing hype?Wow, Polarized Vote OptionsSeems like the vote options are either, "It's really good/the next...
- Tags: MPG, General Motors Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- 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
- Auto marketing wars: Nissan claims over 300 MPG
- only if this happened a long time agowe wont have depended on foreign oil so much.. but better late than never...How many of those 230/300 MPG miles?How many of those 230/300 MPG miles were spent coasting downhill, driving at 25 MPH on a test track or other unreal world, hypermiling...
- Tags: marketing, MPG, car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
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