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Take It E.V.
Electric vehicles catching on in China; Smart cars coming to U.S. |
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23 Nov 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Take It E.V. Electric vehicles catching on in China; Smart cars coming to U.S. All the talk these days is about hybrid and hydrogen cars, but in China, where air pollution is an ongoing crisis, they haven't given up on electric vehicles. Improvements in battery technology are making electric cars, scooters, and buses a viable option, with shorter charging times and traveling ranges that rival t ... |
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| Topics: cars, China, electric vehicles, placemaking, United States (all these topics) |
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Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back
Honda's new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota |
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17 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back Honda's new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota Toyota has thus far dominated the market for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, with its so-hot-Cameron-Diaz-has-one Prius outselling Honda's diminutive Civic Hybrid by an almost two-to-one margin in the U.S. this year (and let's not even mention Honda's Insight -- you ever seen one?). Now Honda is fighting back by offering a hybrid vers ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Whining Is Job One
Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars |
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24 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Whining Is Job One Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford's vocal attempts to position his company as eco-friendly are sounding a little hollow this week. As the California legislative session nears its end, Ford has ramped up lobbying efforts to kill a bill that would allow d ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, California, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, hybrids, jackassery, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Does My Butt Look Big in This Car?
Toyota's Hot-Selling Prius Appeals to Drivers' Vanity |
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24 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Does My Butt Look Big in This Car? Toyota's Hot-Selling Prius Appeals to Drivers' Vanity Last month, Honda sold 1,963 Civic Hybrids and a meager 34 Insight hybrids in the U.S. -- and sales trends for both models are trending downward -- while the Toyota Prius fairly flew off lots, with 5,230 sold in the U.S. last month. A Toyota spokesperson said the company could have sold twice as many if production h ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Escape Notice
Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations |
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14 May 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Escape Notice Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations Demand for gas-electric hybrid vehicles has automakers scrambling to keep up. Ford's new Escape hybrid SUV won't go on sale until August, but already 30,000 people have expressed the desire to buy one via Ford's website, whereas the company had planned to sell just 20,000 a year. Meanwhile, waiting lists for Toyota's Prius are growi ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Hy Jinx
Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us |
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08 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Hy Jinx Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us Thanks to lobbying by intrepid enviro group Global Green USA, several high-profile celebrities arrived at the Academy Awards this year not in stretch limos, but in diminutive hybrid Toyota Priuses. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Robin Willi ... |
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| Topics: cars, celebrity, consumerism, electric vehicles, environmental justice, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Stinky Unsafe Vehicle
On SUVs |
Umbra Fisk |
25 Feb 2004 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Please help; my friend Kathryn Schulz, Grist's managing editor, is sick of hearing about my guilt. I own an SUV. In my defense, I got it almost six years ago, when I was moving to the mountains and needed a big car with four-wheel drive to support my rugged, transient lifestyle, and it's a littler model, not a Navigator. Life is funny, though, because now I live in New York, and the only thing I use my SUV for is commuting from ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Put the Pedal to the Mettle
The word on relatively green cars and positively green bicycles |
Jim Motavalli, The Green Guide |
16 Dec 2003 |
Earthly Possessions |
| By Jim Motavalli and The Green Guide 16 Dec 2003 Hy-wire act. Photo: DOE. My daughter Maya, who is 9, saw a picture of the General Motors Hy-wire, the company's super-sleek experimental fuel-cell car, and immediately decided we should have one. Unfortunately, I had to explain to her that the hydrogen-powered, zero-emission, fossil-fuel-free car would be perfect for us in all respects except one: It's not ... |
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| Topics: bikes, cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Cheap Tricks I
Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture |
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03 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Cheap Tricks I Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture Defying conventional wisdom, Toyota unveiled its new hybrid-car production site in Toyota City, Japan, yesterday and sent a clear message to other automakers: Gas-electric hybrids can be manufactured inexpensively. Such cars have traditionally been thought of as too costly to be practical, and Toyota and Honda, the only two companies to ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Cutting the Cord
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25 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Cutting the Cord Fuel cells and hybrids are hot; electric vehicles are not. That's the word from the California Air Resources Board, which yesterday axed groundbreaking 1990 rules requiring auto manufacturers to sell a fixed number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the state, including 10 percent of cars sold this year. Instead, the board approved more modest regulations that will force car compani ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Driving Us Crazy
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21 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Driving Us Crazy Toyota last week unveiled a spiffy new version of its hybrid gas-electric Prius, which will get better gas mileage (55 miles to the gallon), emit fewer air pollutants, and give passengers more room than previous Prius models. The car will hit showrooms late this year as a 2004 model. Toyota also said it plans to eventually spread its hybrid technology throughout its fleet. But sales of P ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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You Can Hardly Prius Out of 'em
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24 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| You Can Hardly Prius Out of 'em Some stars toned down the glitz at last night's Academy Awards ceremony in acknowledgement of the war in Iraq, while others toned down their energy consumption, arriving at the event in gas-electric hybrid cars instead of gas-guzzling stretch limos. Actress Cameron Diaz was chauffeured to the Oscars in her own Toyota Prius. "I drive it e ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, celebrity, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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We're Not Gonna Rock Down to Electric Avenue
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05 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| We're Not Gonna Rock Down to Electric Avenue The electric car could soon go the way of the dodo, as California moves toward eliminating a rule first approved in 1990 to force automakers to sell a fixed number of electric cars in the state. The proposed changes to the zero-emissions-vehicle rule would allow car manufacturers to earn credits for low-emissions hybrid vehicles, instead o ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hydrogen, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Wild Horses Couldn't Prius Away
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11 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Wild Horses Couldn't Prius Away Toyota Prius owners -- celebs and regular folks alike -- are doing more than saving money at the gas pump and curbing greenhouse-gas emissions: They're also making a political statement, thumbing their noses at Saddam Hussein, oil barons, and SUV owners everywhere. Wyatt Earp, a descendant of the legendary gunslinger, has purchased four hybrid-electric P ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Electric Avenues?
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25 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Electric Avenues? What do Detroit billionaires do with their cash after they retire from the upper echelons of the auto industry? The answer, in the cases of Lee Iacocca and Robert Stempel, may surprise you: They start electric-car companies. Stempel, the former head of General Motors, helped create the emissions-reducing catalytic converter in 1966 and has always had a bit of an environmental bent. Now, as chair of Energ ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles (all these topics) |
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Think Tanks
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03 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Think Tanks In another sign of the struggling automotive industry, Ford has abandoned a $123 million electric car venture known as Think. The company said it would instead invest in other alternative technologies, such as hybrid-electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. Ford is cutting the initiative despite a California mandate that auto manufacturers offer up to 100,000 low-emissions vehicles per year beginni ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Oh, What a Bad Feeling
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01 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh, What a Bad Feeling Toyota has been getting a lot of kudos recently for its low-emissions hybrid vehicle, the Prius -- but the car company increased its carbon emissions in the U.S. during the 1990s more than any other major automaker in the country, according to a report released this week by Environmental Defense. The group said Toyota increased its CO2 emissions by a whoppin ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, ozone, Prius (all these topics) |
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Ken Norwick, electric vehicle advocate
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12 Jul 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Ken Norwick is a systems analyst and an electric vehicle advocate who converted his 1996 Saturn to electric power two years ago. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 12 Jul 2002 CALGARY, Alberta, Canada Like anyone else on a Friday afternoon, I hope to leave work at a reasonable time. I will run past everyone I see, wishing them all a good weekend, and then I will head across the parking lot of the research park to my electric vehicle. Even the CEO of Calgar ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, electric vehicles (all these topics) |
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Ken Norwick, electric vehicle advocate
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10 Jul 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Ken Norwick is a systems analyst and an electric vehicle advocate who converted his 1996 Saturn to electric power two years ago. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 10 Jul 2002 CALGARY, Alberta, Canada Planning for winter -- it's a weird thing to be thinking about at the beginning of the summer, but with my busy schedule I don't really have a choice. I need to repair the electric heaters located under the dash of my EV car before the cold weather comes. ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, electric vehicles (all these topics) |
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Ken Norwick, electric vehicle advocate
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09 Jul 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Ken Norwick is a systems analyst and an electric vehicle advocate who converted his 1996 Saturn to electric power two years ago. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 09 Jul 2002 CALGARY, Alberta, Canada I turn the key to the start position on my homemade 1996 Saturn electric car and hold it for about a second. The soft click that follows is the only indication that the car has started. I push the clutch in and shift into reverse. With your foot off of the a ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, electric vehicles (all these topics) |
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Ken Norwick, electric vehicle advocate
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08 Jul 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Ken Norwick is a systems analyst and an electric vehicle advocate who converted his 1996 Saturn to electric power two years ago. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 08 Jul 2002 CALGARY, Alberta, Canada I'm a programmer by way of occupation, but a "Curious George" by nature. I like to spend my free time out in my garage tinkering away. For the next five days I am going to describe what it is like to live and commute with an electric car -- specific ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, electric vehicles (all these topics) |
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Ken Norwick, electric vehicle advocate
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08 Jul 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Ken Norwick is a systems analyst and an electric vehicle advocate who converted his 1996 Saturn to electric power two years ago. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 I was going to begin this diary by discussing what I call "topographical driving," which involves planning a trip according to the obstacles you are likely to encounter, for the purpose of minimizing energy use. But the last two diary entries seem to have touched a nerve with a few readers out ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, electric vehicles (all these topics) |
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Sticker Shocker
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06 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Sticker Shocker But never fear, there's still some hope: Eco-friendly products might not be raking in the dough, but 60 percent of new-car buyers say they would purchase a more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle, even if it raised the sticker price of the car. That was the conclusion of a study released today by auto industry research firm J.D. Power and Associates, which also found that nearl ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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States of Disgrace
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12 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| States of Disgrace New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont may postpone for four years a requirement that automakers increase sales of electric cars to improve air quality. Two years ago, the states adopted California's standard, which mandates that by next year, 8 percent of cars sold must be much cleaner than current cars and another 2 percent must be entirely emissions-free (i.e. ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, cars, electric vehicles, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont (all these topics) |
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Coupe Coup
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10 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Coupe Coup Less than 6 percent of 2002 model cars and trucks now hitting showrooms get better than 30 miles per gallon, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. On average, the fuel economy for the cars (23.9 mpg) is a bit worse than the 2001 model year. The gas-electric hybrid Honda Insight, a two-seat coupe, takes top honors in fuel economy, at 64 mpg; the hybrid Toyota Prius, a ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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