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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

Hybrids to increase market share, but...

Big money on Wall Street is betting hybrid autos will become a bigger part of the mass market this decade, but will remain a minority privilege for those who don't need a price-tag bargain. That's the conclusion of a study just out from J.P. Morgan. By the year...

Tags: Car, Japan, Hybrid, Toyota Prius, Morgan, Price Margin, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-31

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

Insight available Tuesday

Insight available TuesdayYet another PC Mobile.Yet another ripoff car to let the PC crowd claim they are doing something to help the environment.This is a dead end technology. Choosing a hybrid is not now and never has been an economically sound choice. Compared to similar non-hybrid cars that...

Tags: car, hybrid, Hyundai Accent

Discussion threads 2009-03-21

Car-friendly outlets pave way for electric driving

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Praveen Mandal, president of Coulomb Technologies, outlines the difficulties in finding places to plug in rechargeable cars and balancing the grid, once automakers release their new lines of plug-in vehicles. He introduces his company's networked "Smarlet" system, which that monitors...

Tags: Plug-in, electric, car, green, fuel alternatives, hybrid, environment, grid

Videos 2008-12-05

2010 Lexus RX 450h and 350

Starting February 2009, that will no longer be the case because the new 2010 RX 350 will be available, followed shortly by the RX 450h hybrid. by CNET News.com

Tags: News.com, Hybrid, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-19

Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.

More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Some of the folks touting hybrid cars--standard fuel plus electric--think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens' pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they're saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will...

Tags: Car, Hybrid, Folk, Hybridowners Site, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas

The priciest rental car? It's a hybrid, of course. Expensive and in short supply as travellers try to cur down on gas use. Not only is there a waiting list to BUY a hybrid car in many parts of the U.S. It is equally difficult to...

Tags: Car, California, New York, Hybrid, Florida, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Daily Debrief: GM goes lean and green

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi chats with CarTech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about GM's decision to close four North American truck manufacturing plants. The news behind the headline indicates a trend toward smaller vehicles and a push to roll out the company's hybrid car, the Chevy Volt.

Tags: General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, chevrolet, chevy volt, hummer, green, hybrid, prius, electric car, environment

Videos 2008-06-03

NVIDIA announce GeForce 9M Series notebook GPUs

NVIDIA, responding to user demands for a better visual experience when using notebook PCs, announces the GeForce 9M Series of graphics processors, and a new graphics innovation, Hybrid SLI technology. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Graphics, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, nvidia, gpu, geforce, sli, hybrid

Image galleries 2008-06-03

Additional Resources

How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0

Great PresentationI don't know how you find the time to do all the stuff you do and have small new children.We have the Live product here for student e-mailIt's hard to keep up.If building your house on the sand is a bad idea. What about a cloud? Thank goodness the...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Hands-on with the HTC HD2, most impressive Windows Mobile device to date

I like what HTC is doingYou've got the Hero and the HD2. I'd like to see what the difference is in performance between the two, but the Hero has a slower processor. Personally, I like the Windows Mobile platform, and it is the best option for Windows-based IT...

Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Operating systems, mobile device, Apple iPhone, HTC HD2, High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Don't envy the ENVI. GM re-VOLTing other brands

Cool.Thanks for the news, I'm watching the electric market carefully, as I think that it may be the future. Maybe not in a pure form (the Volt is really a plug-in hybrid), but it's coming.. . . and Ford is interestingly enough advertising like crazy right now. I forget for...

Tags: Podcasts, General Motors Corp., brand, Volt

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Sony Vaio L117FX (Core 2 Quad Q8400s 2.66GHz, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium)

Had Apple not introduced a 27-inch iMac for $1,699, we'd have fewer reservations about Sony asking $1,999 for its new 24-inch Vaio L117FX. Yes, HP's TouchSmart 600 expanded on some of Sony's innovations from its previous generation all-in-ones. Sony also doesn't even attempt to match HP's creative multitouch software. But...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, RAM, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., HDMI

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Hyrbids not the only greener cars

One crackpot referencing another one. Great ntntPaid for by the Environmentalist movementhttp://www.climatechangefraud.com/The entire CO2 is such a farce, it is the biggestlie on the planet.Enough already, this is about Operating Systems/Databases and Systems NOT the environment.Meanwhile browse this site...Actually, do some reading - and thinking - before you post.Now you...

Tags: global warming, General Motors Corp., blog, car

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Asus UL50AG-RBBBK05

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. This year has undoubtedly been defined, if not by Netbooks, then by the growth of affordable thin laptops that shave size--and even...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, ASUS, laptop computer, processor

Product reviews 2009-11-11

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

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.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06