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Charge! Electric-car visionary would overhaul the way we get around		19 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 7:55 AM on 19 Aug 2008 Could the global auto infrastructure be overhauled in a way that's profitable for business, cheap for drivers, and easy on the planet? Meet Better Place's Shai Agassi and his plans for an electric-car future, featured in the latest issue of Wired. In Agassi's vision, gas stations are replaced with omnipresent recharging spots for electric cars. Vehicles are cheap, perhaps even free; money is mad ...
Topics: business, cars, Denmark, electric vehicles, energy, innovation, Israel, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Oh lord, won't you clean up my Mercedes-Benz? Mercedes to offer a petroleum-free lineup by 2015	Sara Barz	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In the next seven years, Mercedes-Benz wants to eliminate petroleum-powered vehicles from its lineup. According to AutoblogGreen, 'The German giant is working on a variety of technologies that will help provide crude oil free transport such as battery electrics, fuel cells and highly efficient internal combustion engines that can operate on biofuels.' The automaker already has two new powertrains in either the concept or trial stages of development. The concept F700, ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Beep Beep, Beep Beep, Oui French capital will implement electric-car-sharing program		23 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:16 PM on 23 Jun 2008 Having successfully implemented a bike-sharing program, Paris is revving up plans to provide electric cars that residents can pick up and drop off anywhere in the city. Mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced that 4,000 electric cars will be made available by the end of the next year at 700 pickup points. "There will be a computerized system which allows you as soon as you collect ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, France, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Google plugs in Notes from a plug-in hybrid conference	Michael Moynihan	15 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Silicon Valley came to Washington this week to talk about plug-in hybrids at a great conference organized by Google.org with Brookings. The combination of tech visionaries, electric cars on display, Washington heavy hitters such as John Dingell, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and even a couple of film stars, Peter Horton and Anne Sexton of Who Killed the Electric Car?, made for a great meeting. Here are my notes from the standing room o ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Notable quotable Toyota and Honda could sure learn something from Chevy!	David Roberts	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'I don't have to tell you how sexy the [Chevy] Volt is. The Japanese and Chinese couldn't possibly put out something that appealing to middle America.' -- Andy Karsner, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy
Topics: cars, Department of Energy, electric vehicles, energy, placemaking, quotables (all these topics)

Converting a Yaris into a plug-in hybrid Toyota may have something up its sleeve	biodiversivist	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The first car I ever owned didn't have power anything. Today you will be hard pressed to find a car without power brakes and steering. But those features also consume energy. This explains how the first wave of economy cars from Japan got such notoriously high mileage (they didn't have power anything either). One reason I chose a Yaris for my next car is that it has electric power steering and power brakes. In theory, you should be able to turn the engine off without ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green Test driving a fully electric car	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
As I reported earlier today, electric automaker Think -- in partnership with a couple of venture capital firms -- will be opening a North American branch next year. I just got back from test driving the crash-tested, highway-ready (70 mph top speed) Think two-seater. Pretty damn sweet! Feels and handles exactly like a normal car -- and I'm told it's going to retail for around $20,000. You could have one next year. The one I drove looked more or less like this one: ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green: breaking news Think all-electric vehicles coming to the U.S.	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Ray Lane, the managing partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is about to announce some news. (He's up on stage with Jan-Olaf Willums, CEO of Think Global AS, and Wilber James, managing general partner of RockPort Capital Partners.) Ah. He's launching Think North America -- bringing Think vehicles to the U.S. Hundreds of the cars will reach the states this year, mainly for use in fleets. After that they'll be offered to consumers, first in Californ ...
Topics: business, cars, innovation, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

Fashion before function The automotive equivalent of high heels	Adam Browning	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Was looking for an electric vehicle and this came up. Seriously -- six batteries? And a suicide trunk?Part of me kind of wants it.
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

Put a River in Your Tank Electric cars could impact water supplies, says analysis		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Converting most U.S. vehicles to run on electricity could have an impact on water supplies, according to an analysis to be published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Generating the needed electricity would require more water than producing gasoline, the report found -- that is, if the nation's electricity grid continues to be powered by coal and other fuels that ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fossil fuels, news, placemaking, water crisis (all these topics)

So MINI to Choose From Hybrid Technologies converts gas-powered cars to electric		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:09 PM on 18 Dec 2007 Obsessed with MINI Coopers but also like the idea of zero-emission electric vehicles? Have your car and drive it too: a company called Hybrid Technologies guts cars such as the MINI, smart fortwo, and PT Cruiser, and replaces their gas tanks with an electric motor and a stack of lithium batteries. Convinced? Starting in 2008, you'll be able to buy your electric MINI at Wal-Mart -- f ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, greenish companies, news, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Be car-ful? Giving up car-lessness for Rob Lowe's plug-in hybrid	Alan Durning	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This essay is part of a series on not owning a car. ----- The weekend before Halloween, my car-less family got a loaner plug-in hybrid-electric car to try. You see, the City of Seattle and some other local public agencies are testing the conversion of some existing hybrids to plug-ins to accelerate the spread of these near-zero-emissions vehicles. As a favor and, perhaps, for some publicity (this post), the city's program manager offered me four days' use of the p ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, hybrids, cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

Hybrid wars Honda fights to regain green car company mantle	David Roberts	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Honda entered the hybrid market before Toyota, but over time it made a fateful mistake: it failed to visually distinguish its line of hybrids. The Prius' distinct shape is like peacock feathers -- it signals your identity to the world. Who wants to be virtuous if nobody knows about it? Now Honda's gotten the message and it's returning to the fight: [Honda is] working on a new high-profile hybrid -- a Prius fighter that analysts expect will have the highest mileage ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Electric cars a-comin' Comin' 'round the bend	David Roberts	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Coming to a showroom near you: a $30,000 all-electric sedan with a top speed of 80mph and a range of 120 miles per charge. Why the low price? It's made in China, with cheap labor and advanced lithium ion batteries that came out of government-funded research. There's competition: Phoenix Motors has a four-door utility truck with similar performance capabilities that it's planning on selling to the public around the same time. And Tesla Motors, makers of the $100, ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Very well said The green cartopia ain't likely to happen	JMG	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Kurt Cobb writes a smart and sensible review of Who Killed the Electric Car? Excerpt follows: The documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? is an excellent murder mystery filled with dislikable corporate and government villains. It also features heroic engineers, salespeople and average citizens as well as a sprinkling of good-looking actors and actresses who play, well, themselves. As I watched the film recently for the first time, I found myself doing something that I don't ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Aero 101 Airliners are shaped the way they are for a reason	biodiversivist	29 Jul 2007	Gristmill
We took our Prius over the mountains a few weeks back. I was looking forward to testing it at the extreme end of its design envelope, with a bulky cargo carrier to boot. This gave me an opportunity to see how much highway mileage would be affected by aerodynamic drag. Yes, yes, I should have stuck to the speed limit, but by not doing so I preemptively squashed a bitching point leveled by hybrid hatas -- Prius drivers sticking to the speed limit are always getting in t ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius, tech (all these topics)

Plug-in hybrids rule; PHEV Hypercars rule even more Let's go all the way	Gar Lipow	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
When David pointed out that plug-in electric hybrids (PHEVs) can reduce carbon emissions in all possible futures, two main arguments were raised in opposition -- practicality, and the possibility that they will provide too low a reduction, while blocking the path to something better. The way commercial plug-ins look to be implemented within the next five years is that normal hybrids will be built with large batteries and the ability to plug into a socket in your d ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, hybrids, placemaking, tech (all these topics)

Toyota moves to test plug-in Prius in Japan It's getting closer	Joseph Romm	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Green Car Congress translated a story that appeared in the Japanese press: Toyota Motor Co. will obtain permission from Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport by the end of July for the testing of a prototype plug-in Prius on public roads. Toyota will be the first car maker to obtain permission for a plug-in hybrid test in Japan. After completing the road tests, Toyota will start building a way to market the model by leasing them to pu ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Japan, placemaking (all these topics)

Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Toyota moves to corner the 'plug-in' market Announces development plans	Joseph Romm	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Plug-ins are on the way! We've said it many times, but then we aren't the world's leading auto maker. The Christian Science Monitor reports: Toyota's revelation Tuesday that it will develop a new "plug-in hybrid" - which uses a wall socket at night to charge and relies on an electric motor to go many miles before sipping any gasoline - could presage a major shift in automotive technology, some industry analysts say. Detroit's Big Three hav ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

New study finds that plug-in hybrids rule in all possible futures Really	David Roberts	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
If you haven't already heard, yesterday saw the release of an important new report: In the most comprehensive environmental assessment of electric transportation to date, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are examining the greenhouse gas emissions and air quality impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). The purpose of the program is to evaluate the nationwide environmental impacts of pote ...
Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Report: Diesels will outsell hybrids in the U.S. by 2012 What next? Socialized medicine?	Erik Hoffner	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A new report (PDF) claims that more Americans are likely to opt for diesel vehicles over hybrids in the near future in the quest for fuel economy: total sales of hybrids and diesels will hit 2.7 million annually by 2012, and diesels will account for more than half (1.5 million) of those sales. 'A new diesel's cost burden is lower than hybrid's for similar fuel economy -- even with the 'clean' technologies needed to meet tough U.S. emissions regulations (including ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, green living, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Google tries to kickstart an energy revolution Google.org funds V2G demonstration projects	David Roberts	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Sweet mama! Google.org is going to give vehicle-to-grid technology a much-needed boost, to the tune of $10 million. The company is going to modify six cars, a mix of Toyota Priuses and Ford Escape hybrids, with batteries that can draw juice from the grid and feed juice back in. The promise of this technology is that if it spreads, it will enable distributed electricity storage that can smooth spikes in electricity demand without expensive new generation plants. That ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, electricity grid, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

NYC's yellow cabs go green Big Applers breathe easy	Maywa Montenegro	23 May 2007	Gristmill
Starting in 2008, every new yellow taxi purchased by the city of New York will be a hybrid vehicle, according to an announcement yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg. By 2012, the entire fleet -- some 13,000 cabs -- will have been replaced with a mixture of Toyota Priuses, Highlander Hybrids, Lexus RX 400h's, and Ford Escapes.Thirteen thousand may sound like a drop in the ocean, given that 232 million cars are currently registered in the U.S. alone. Still, cabs are a grea ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, green living, greening biz operations, hybrids, New York City, placemaking (all these topics)

Put one of these babies on an electric bike A123 introduces new battery	biodiversivist	17 May 2007	Gristmill
From the Energy Blog: A123 Systems today introduced its 32-series NanophosphateTM Lithium Ion cells, specifically designed for Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) use. The 32-series cells are designed with abuse-tolerance in mind. A123 Systems Automotive Class cells take advantage of lessons learned from the mass-production of ANR26650M1 cells, used in DeWalt's and Black & Decker's power tool lines, in order to deliver 10+ ye ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, hybrids, placemaking, tech (all these topics)

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