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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Meeting notes The lost art of conversation	biodiversivist	21 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I passed a big rabble of bikers on my way to downtown Seattle yesterday evening. Several complimented my bike as I passed. There were a couple of talls in the mix. I assumed it was another Critical Mass ride, but maybe not. Sure looked like fun. I need to participate in one of those someday. I periodically attend a monthly gathering of Seattle atheists. There are always new faces, and they pick a different restaurant every month for variety's sake. We chatted about t ...
Topics: bikes, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Electric cars: going nowhere fast Electric motocycles may be bridge to electric cars	biodiversivist	02 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I see this pea-green electric car biffing around the neighborhood now and then. I test drove a similar car a year or so ago. Entrepreneurs just can't resist testing the electric car market. One company after another goes out of business, only to be replaced by the next guy in line. It might help if they would make them less silly looking. Adding a fourth wheel might have been worth it in this case. However, the problem isn't just marketing. You can't just make an elec ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, innovation, placemaking (all these topics)

The Land of Electric Enchantment Tesla Motors to build electric-car plant in New Mexico		22 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
The Land of Electric Enchantment Tesla Motors to build electric-car plant in New Mexico In April, electric-car start-up Tesla Motors will break ground on a manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, which beat out Flagstaff, Ariz., and Pittsburg, Calif., for the honor. The plant will churn out 10,000 WhiteStar sedans a year starting in 2009 -- "zero-emission" ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, cars, electric vehicles, New Mexico, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hybrid Lowdown Toyota will introduce new advertising, incentives for Prius		09 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Hybrid Lowdown Toyota will introduce new advertising, incentives for Prius To many, the Toyota Prius is synonymous with months-long waiting lists. But just as the automaker has stepped up production on its hybrid darling, sales have plateaued. Fearing that the car lacks mainstream appeal, Toyota is training dealers in Prius sweet talk, hyping incentives like low- and no-interest f ...
Topics: advertising, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Happy Feat GM unveils plug-in hybrid at Detroit car show, sticks out tongue at greens		08 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Happy Feat GM unveils plug-in hybrid at Detroit car show, sticks out tongue at greens The media got a peek at Detroit's North American International Auto Show yesterday, and manufacturers had a surprise in store: cars so green they could play hide-and-seek in a cornfield. The biggest buzz surrounded the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid from General Motors, long vilified for yanking its original ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Top Goes the Diesel L.A. auto show sees Germans, GM committing to clean-tech cars		30 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Top Goes the Diesel L.A. auto show sees Germans, GM committing to clean-tech cars This week's Los Angeles Auto Show has set the car world abuzz. General Motors, plagued by its gas-guzzling reputation and notorious electric-car bungle, announced its commitment to creating a rechargeable plug-in hybrid, becoming the first automaker to do so. "The technological hurdles are real, bu ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Engine Block On owning multiple cars	Umbra Fisk	27 Sep 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Your recent column suggested that the questioners sell one of their two cars, but I can't help wondering how much good that does for the environment, especially weighed against the annoyance cost of not having a second car when two people have to be going in opposite directions at the same time. I have a personal interest in this, as we have three cars: mine (a Prius, used for all errands and most weekend driving), his (f ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Sticker Shock Absorber Some hybrids can pay back their price premium over time		24 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Sticker Shock Absorber Some hybrids can pay back their price premium over time High price of hybrids got you down? According to the gurus at Edmunds.com, the cash some hybrid owners save on gas can make up for the sticker price. Hybrid cars and trucks cost between $1,200 and $7,000 more than their gas-chugging counterparts, but as analyst Alex Rosten s ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, politics, Prius (all these topics)

Put a Plug in It On electric cars	Umbra Fisk	23 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, Why are electric cars considered so great? They don't pollute the air where they are driven. But certainly when they are plugged in they use energy from a power plant, which does pollute and also contributes to global warming. Doesn't this just move the pollution from one area to another? Then you have to consider that there are power losses when electric energy travels over transmission lines. Are electric cars more effi ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, placemaking (all these topics)

Engineers Gone Wild Automakers combine forces to develop new hybrid transmission		15 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Engineers Gone Wild Automakers combine forces to develop new hybrid transmission Tired of getting their rear ends handed to them by the Prius, GM, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler plan to invest over $1 billion in R&D toward a new hybrid transmission that, boosters say, will leave Toyota's market-leading hybrid in the dust. "Dual-mode" hybrid technology includes an onboard fuel-optimiz ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Whole Watta Love Small automakers roll out electric cars		28 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Whole Watta Love Small automakers roll out electric cars The climate is right for electric cars, and several automakers are rolling out new models. It's "an untapped market that is phenomenal," says the CEO of Zap, which introduced the three-wheel electric Xebra last month (yes, it comes zebra-striped). While low-speed, relatively low-price vehicles like Miles Automotive's ZX40 and t ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Who Pimped the Electric Car? Silicon Valley startup unveils sexy electric car		24 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Who Pimped the Electric Car? Silicon Valley startup unveils sexy electric car As gas prices rise and vehicle emissions nudge the planet toward chaos, a Silicon Valley startup is hyping the electric Tesla Roadster -- which goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds, has a top speed of 135 miles per hour, and costs over $80,000 (built-in satellite navigation technology and iPod dock included). "Most ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Plugs and Kisses Toyota considering plug-in hybrids and flex-fuel vehicles for U.S.		20 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Plugs and Kisses Toyota considering plug-in hybrids and flex-fuel vehicles for U.S. Toyota plans to develop a plug-in hybrid vehicle, the company announced this week. Rechargeable via any typical electrical outlet, a plug-in would be able to "travel greater distances without using its gas engine, ... conserve more oil, and slice smog and greenhouse gases to nearly imperceptible ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

All About EV Who Killed the Electric Car? Trailer (RealPlayer)	Hannah Eaves	27 Jun 2006	Arts and Minds
The RealPlayer is required. Get it now. (There is a completely free version. Make sure to click on the hard-to-find "FREE RealPlayer" link.) Back to the interview.
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

All About EV Who Killed the Electric Car? Trailer (QuickTime)	Hannah Eaves	27 Jun 2006	Arts and Minds
The QuickTime Player is required. Get it now. Back to the interview.
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

All About EV A conversation with the makers of Who Killed the Electric Car?	Hannah Eaves	27 Jun 2006	Arts and Minds
Chris Paine, the director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, looks a little embarrassed as he walks toward his waiting limo. "I should really have them drop us off a block away from the theater," he says, laughing uneasily. At least he's carpooling. Dean Devlin and Chris Paine at Sundance. Photo: Fred Hayes/WireImage. With him are Dean Devlin, one of the film's executive producers ( ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

All About EV Who Killed the Electric Car? Trailer (Windows Media Player)	Hannah Eaves	27 Jun 2006	Arts and Minds
The Windows Media Player is required. Get it now. Back to the interview.
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Who Killed the Electric Car? launch date set	Chris Schults	16 Apr 2006	Gristmill
In addition to An Inconvenient Truth, we've been also tracking the film Who Killed the Electric Car? This morning Grist received an email concerning the official launch date, which is scheduled for June 28th of this year. The movie was screened at Sundance and will also be appearing at the following festivals: San Francisco Film Festival (April 21-22)USA Film Festival, Dallas (April 29)Tribeca Film Festival, New York City (May 2, 4-6)Mountain Film Festival, Tellu ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, movies, placemaking (all these topics)

But Kermit Said ... Japan rules, U.S. drools in new list of greenest vehicles		14 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
But Kermit Said ... Japan rules, U.S. drools in new list of greenest vehicles An annual list of the world's greenest cars placed the top American car at an impressive, uh, No. 10, while Japanese cars took all of the top five spots. (But American cars dominated the Totally Un-Gay Testostero-Manly Mean Machine lis ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, hybrids, Japan, news, placemaking, Prius, United States (all these topics)

Lights, Camera, Traction Al Gore and electric car star in films unveiled at Sundance	Dan Bree	02 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
At 25 years of age, Sundance is the country's premier festival of independent film. But a lot has changed over that quarter century. Well, actually, one thing has changed: m-o-n-e-y. There's a ton of Hollywood cash spent at Sundance, and I could see it everywhere I looked last week. The "VIP" corporate parties on Main Street. The piles of free stuff for celebrities. The Moviefon ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, cars, climate, electric vehicles, green living, movies, placemaking, renewable energy, Utah (all these topics)

Two Prongs Make a Right New coalition lobbies Big Auto to build plug-in hybrid cars		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Two Prongs Make a Right New coalition lobbies Big Auto to build plug-in hybrid cars Plug-In Partners is not, as the name might indicate, a swingers' club. Rather, it's a diverse national campaign -- encompassing cities, electric utilities, national-security hawks, and others -- pushing for plug-in hybrids: gas-electric vehicles with batteries that can be recharged via a re ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Su-Su-Pseudo On true hybrids	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I read the New York Times article that reported auto manufacturers are using hybrid technology to boost power rather than improve mileage. It specifically mentioned the Honda Accord, claiming that the mileage difference between the six-cylinder and the hybrid is minimal. What are the facts here? Is there a hybrid that really, actually, no-foolin'-around, gives really good mileage, represents a significant improvement over the reg ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics)

Prius-toric Team achieves 110 mpg in Toyota Prius		09 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Prius-toric Team achieves 110 mpg in Toyota Prius If you thought fuel efficiency was cool, wait 'til you meet ... Xtreme fuel efficiency! Rawk! Ahem. A team of five oddly obsessive middle-aged American men, seeking to break the unofficial mileage record set in Japan, recently drove a factory Toyota Prius 1,397 miles on one tank of gas, spending two days circling around one 15- ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Big Mellow Taxi Meet the world's first hybrid-cab driver	Brendan Sainsbury	02 Aug 2005	Main Dish
Like any self-respecting cabbie, Andrew Grant has a talent for small talk. But when the conversation turns to his prized 2004 Toyota Prius, things get a bit more animated. Andrew Grant. "Gave Cameron Diaz a lift once," he says matter-of-factly, leading me toward the Vancouver curb where the curvaceous car is parked. "Oh, yeah? What did she say?" "She said, 'This is nothing, I' ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius, public transportation, Vancouver (all these topics)

Hail the Cabs! Hybrid taxis to hit the streets of New York City this fall		27 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Hail the Cabs! Hybrid taxis to hit the streets of New York City this fall Six different hybrid models will debut in New York City's taxi fleet this fall, thanks to a recent vote by the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission. Some commissioners had previously expressed reservations about the leg room (or lack thereof) in hybrids, but after test drives, one termed Toyota' ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, New York, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

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