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- 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.
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- Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype
- Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Netbook disillusionment and why Compaq is still a brand
- Dell CEO Michael Dell said that disillusionment with netbooks kicks in after about 36 hours. Assuming Dell's right, and he may be, does that mean cheap laptops in the $399 range will trump them? Speaking at the Churchill Club Tuesday night Techmeme, Dell said that the appeal...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Soak the rich? Ban the Beamer?
- This is a tech site.ntTo be more specific:this is a computer tech site.But you knew that.lolgood idea. Well, he *has* to fill his weekly quota anyway.And, tech will be a big part of making cars more fuel efficient and less polluting.Blog post or beginning paragraph?Hey Harry make a one sentence...
- Discussion threads 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Windmills stir up opposition
- Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
- Photo gallery:2010 Ford Fusion HybridThe problem with some hybrid cars is that they're often more hybrid than they are car. The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid doesn't have that problem. Even without considering the gas and electric tag team happening under its hood, the Fusion is a well-put-together vehicle with an...
- Product reviews 2009-09-03
- 2010 Lexus HS250h
- Photo gallery:2010 Lexus HS250hWhen we were introduced to Lexus' new hybrid, we were assured that the HS250h was more than just a Toyota Prius with premium price tag. For starters, this new dedicated hybrid luxury model features a larger 2.4-liter gasoline engine. Although the two hybrids have identical wheelbases, the...
- Product reviews 2009-08-28
- Cash for clunkers: top sellers, lead junkers
- Here's the score on America's cash for clunkers. Top sellers: 1) Toyota Corolla 2) Honda Civic 30 Toyota Camry. The hyrbid Prius was only 7th. Top-selling US-owned brand: Forde Focus at #4. On the dump-this-car end, Ford scored big. Three of the four...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- U.S. hybrid car sales
- Is this noteworthy?I was under the assumption that ALL car sales are down, not just the hybrids. Bottom line people are not buying cars before Cash for Clunkers.So one could say "sales are down" on any category of vehicle, whether trucks, SUV, or diesel.I would be curious about hybrid...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Cash for clunkers: what's new?
- So, the 3 billion has been used upbut only 2% has been paid out?You do the math.Wow, maybe proofread the blog?That must be one of the highest errors-to-words blog I have seen in a long time.May be a good program now......but think about this.A friend went to a Toyota dealership...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- U.S. hybrid car sales
- Hybrid sales are way down this year compared to 2008 but a turnaround in July shows the curve heading upward for now. Helped along, no doubt, by "cash for clunkers." 2009 sales of hybrid cars in America: just over 161,000 while a year ago at this time nearly...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- 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...
- Discussion threads 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...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Chevy Volt: 230 mpg in city driving; Are you a buyer?
- Why the focus on MPG for an electric vehicle?The real question is: How much in increased electricity costs will one incur from recharging this vehicle "at least once a day"?That plus the added price tagare warning me away from this. If I thought I could save money versus buying a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them
- Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about themI heard it here firstI hadn't seen these commercials, nor did they strike me as particularly buzzworthy. Are people really talking about them outside of Silicon Valley or perhaps the IT universe?You nailed the marketing problem on the head......
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- (Nissan Leaf EV photos)
- Nissan Leaf EV photosLooks like a cockroachThe Prius the new Honda hybrid and now the Nissan, they all look like cockroaches just missing the windup key on the top of the roof. Thanks but no thanks. I like my Porsche & Volvo S80 just fine.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
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