Ahead of an official announcement expected next Tuesday and under condition of anonymity, administration officials spoke of a 30% improvement mandate starting in 2011 and reaching a deadline in 2016. Full story at MSNBC
It gives me great delight to paraphrase Chris Payne’s movie “ Who killed the electric car? ” and now “ Revenge of the Electric Car ” because the answer is {drum roll please…} Nobel Prize winning Physicist and 12th US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu . “ Moving...
I'm staring down a long highway and I think that I can just make out, in the distance a Stop sign; yes, that's what it is, and it seems to have a Hydrogen symbol on it. I think that's the end of that road. Recently, UK car magazine and TV show Top Gear looked at the all battery powered Tesla...
We all jumped on Top Gear for suggesting that we would be charging our Tesla Roadsters with wind turbines but, whilst Mr. Clarkson might have had the scale wrong, Stanford University's Mark Z. Jacobson says that wind is the way to power our Tesla Roadsters. But more than that he suggests that the...
$17.4B total; $13.4B today for GM ($9.4B) and Chrysler ($4B), $4B balance in February. The funds are coming out of the $700B financial stabilization fund, not as I understand the $25B Advanced Vehicle fund. This is good news for the Volt and for the future of new vehicle manufacturers like Tesla, Fisker...
The mayors of both cities have urged congress to support the new generation of auto companies developing electric alternatives to traditional construction site and farming vehicles (SUVs) used on the roads today. In an open letter to congress San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom...
The big three, or perhaps the big two and Chrysler are begging congress for cash, $34B at the last count. Here's the crazy; the Fisker Karma, an $87,900 2+2 sports sedan due to hit the streets at the end of 2009 is sold out well into 2010... probably 2011 by the time you read this? Now, here's...
Tesla Motors isn't the only company looking for funding right now. As well as Tesla, XP Motors and others descended on Washington yesterday to here what what was on offer in terms of funded to them as part of the $25B fund being made available. Detroit's Big Three automakers also have applied...
Boris Johnson the mayor of London challenged the auto industry to fix up his Toyota mini-van. " Come on, folks: you must be able to do it. I don’t want to buy another internal combustion engine; there is a market waiting to be satisfied, and if that isn’t an economic stimulus I don’t...