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Grading Cars on the Curve

September 2, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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By now you may have seen some prototypes of the new-car fuel economy stickers on which the EPA is seeking public comment. The versions that prominently display letter grades for overall fuel economy performance are certainly eye-catching, rising above the potentially confusing mix of numbers and graphics in the body of the sticker. Yet... [read more]

NRC panel of advocates for dead-end hydrogen cars, chaired by a former ExxonMobil executive, trashes plug-in hybrids in deeply flawed report, Part 1

December 24, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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In a staggering lapse of judgment, the National Research Council let its panel of hydrogen advocates publish a deeply flawed report trashing plug-in hybrids. Last week, the NRC’s “Committee on Assessment of Resource Needs for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies,” which is stacked with hydrogen car experts and advocates, but lacks... [read more]

National Research Council says benefits from plug-in hybrid vehicles decades away

December 17, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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The National Research Council has issued a study examining the costs and benefits of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and concluding that it will likely be decades before such vehicles yield benefits to overcome their higher initial costs.  From the press release: Costs of plug-in hybrid electric cars are high — largely due to... [read more]

Toyota Hybrid

December 15, 2009 by MichaelSmith1
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Plugging into affordability Toyota plans to start selling plug-in hybrid By YURI KAGEYAMA The Associated Press Tue. Dec 15 - 4:45 AM TOKYO — Toyota showed its new plug-in hybrid Monday, available for leasing this month in Japan, the U.S. and Europe, and promised the green vehicle for sale to regular consumers by 2011 at an “affordable... [read more]

Fisker Gets Stimulus Loan To Develop Affordable Plug-In Hybrids

September 27, 2009 by Big Gav
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Gas 2.0 has a post on a large chunk of US economic stimulus money being granted to electric vehicle company Fisker Automotive for plug-in hybrid development - Fisker Gets a Half Billion Dollar Stimulus Loan To Develop Affordable Plug-In Hybrids.The world may have just gotten one very big step closer to viable, affordable electric cars.... [read more]

Will V2G prove profitable to PHEV owners?

August 22, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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When I read someone suggesting that “vehicle-to-grid” (V2G) operations will make money for owners of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV), I wonder how carefully they’ve thought through all the implications.*  The analyst might assume a particular battery technology and characteristics, for example, and then run a simulation against... [read more]

World’s top energy economist warns peak oil threatens recovery, urges immediate action: “We have to leave oil before oil leaves us.”

August 3, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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“Oil prices leapt above $70 a barrel Monday in Asia on investor expectations a recovering global economy will boost crude demand,” the AP reports. You might call those investors speculators — if speculation can be based on marketplace reality.  The UK’s Independent opens its interview with Dr. Fatih Birol, the chief economist at... [read more]

Good reads: fusion, fluids, ‘fficiency and much more

August 1, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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Been crazy busy this past week but there’s been no shortage of interesting news in the cleantech and green energy space, so I’ll summarize a few of them here instead of doing individual posts. BTW: Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. Click to the next page to read about General Fusion’s new infusion of cash, new fluids... [read more]

Document alert: PHEVs and Alberta

July 28, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
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Green Car Congress: University of Calgary Study Finds Large-Scale Adoption of PHEVs in Alberta Could Support Wind Power; PHEV GHG Benefits Range from 40-90% in Emissions Reduction: The environmental benefit of a large-scale deployment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the Canadian province of Alberta could vary... [read more]

Ontario signals to automakers, and consumers, that it’s serious about electric cars

July 15, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty revealed in January that the province was partnering with Better Place, it wasn’t clear whether it was simply a PR stunt or if the government was serious about bringing electric cars in Ontario through the appropriate investments and incentives. That’s because the province put no flesh in the game.... [read more]

PV PHEV Coal & proven cars

July 6, 2008 by Richard Poor
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Various skeptics and antagonists of plug in hybrid electric vehicles have offered a variety of opinions at this site.  I joined to propose some counter arguments. 1) Many people commute to day jobs.  During the day, PV can replace energy used to charge EV and PHEV at roughly equivalent to $3/gallon.  Coal may argue their... [read more]

And, SAE Goes into a Stall

February 18, 2008 by Jonathan Smith
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Green Car Congress1 reports on the 2008 SAE Hybrid Vehicle Technology Symposium last week in San Diego. Two main themes were: Explorations of the near- to -medium-term technical viability of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)—which mainly (although not entirely) means the viability of the lithium-ion battery technology—and The... [read more]