Study – US not on path to 1 million plug-ins by 2015
Electric cars are still limited by battery technologies
Does 1 million plug-ins by 2015 even make sense?
The auto industry, particularly the mainstream auto industry, is largely dependent upon 1 single factor for success: scale. Thus, President Obama’s…
ECOtality Wins $2.87M in Bay Area contracts, expands EV Project to the San Francisco Bay Area
ECOtality, Inc. has expanded The EV Project to the San Francisco Bay Area. ECOtality was awarded a $2.87-million contract from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) to become the Project Manager of the organization’s Electric Ve…
UPS Joins ITM Power’s hydrogen on-site trials
UPS has signed an agreement to participate in the Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) of ITM Power’s transportable high pressure refuelling unit (HFuel) in the UK.
HFuel is a self-contained module suitable for refuelling hydrogen-powered road vehicles an…
Productivity Increases at Faster Pacein 4Q
U.S. workers’ productivity rose at a 2.6% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2010, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
Qantas hikes fuel surcharge as oil prices rise
Qantas Airways says rising oil and jet fuel prices have forced the carrier to hike its fuel surcharge by more than 50 per cent for some international tickets.
US DOE awards KiOR term sheet for loan guarantee supporting a more than $1B biofuels project; drop-in fuels from wood biomass
KiOR, Inc., a developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable oil from biomass, has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program supporting a more than $1-billion biofuels projec…
Buick Regal hybrid helps usher in GM’s base powertrain of the future
Buick Regal hybrid: A taste of GM’s future
Buick the first stop for GM’s E-Assist
Next week GM is set to launch another hybrid based off its E-Assist drive, an upgraded lithium-powered mild hybrid powertrain built off GM’s original BAS hybrid powertrai…
Buick Regal hybrid helps usher in GM’s base powertrain of the future
Buick Regal hybrid: A taste of GM’s future
Buick the first stop for GM’s E-Assist
Next week GM is set to launch another hybrid based off its E-Assist drive, an upgraded lithium-powered mild hybrid powertrain built off GM’s original BAS hybrid powertrai…
Ricardo and partners developing new EV and extended range EV technology demo platform for larger segment vehicles
Ricardo, in collaboration with its partners in the Low Carbon Vehicle Technology Project (LCVTP) (earlier post), is developing a new electric vehicle (EV) technology platform to demonstrate technologies capable of delivering acceptable performance acro…
Hybrid sales: The Toyota Prius can be beat
Wouldn’t both the EV and hybrid versions work in the US?
Too bad Honda’s latest hybrid isn’t fit for the US
In the US the Toyota Prius accounts for about half of all hybrid sales. Even in Japan the Prius has crushed yearly sale’s records.
Yet, last mon…