I spoke with a couple of the people promoting the 2012 release of the Prius plug-in hybrid yesterday at the 2010 Plug-In show. Gosh, this seems like a strange concept. Its all-electric range? 13 miles. The net effect for the …
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What’s Wrong Inside Toyota?
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Where Is the Electric Vehicle Industry Going? Judging by the 2010 Plug-In Show…
The 2010 Plug-In show, featuring the latest in electric transportation, is now in the books. I spent yesterday at the event, meeting people, interviewing key industry players, and taking in all that the show offered. But while I enjoyed the …
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Japan’s Nikkei Newspaper Provides Toyota and Honda with an Obvious Suggestion – Electric Vehicles
A recent article in Japan’s Nikkei newspaper urges the country’s automakers to head directly to battery EVs, rather than further protracting the lives of hybrids. The piece suggests that both Toyota and Honda must shift towards EVs, or risk having …
EV World Discusses Electric Vehicles on the 2GreenEnergy Report
[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/hed1geT5aQA] Here is the full 30-minute-long episode of the Sam Smith’s appearance on the 2GreenEnergy Report. Sam, managing partner of EV World Associates, has had his hands in many high-level electric vehicle transactions over the years, and I was …
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Electric Vehicles and the Plug-In Show – 2010
I’m headed for San Jose, CA this week for the annual Plug-In show. Like virtually every other event in the green space, these events get bigger and more exciting each year. Now, with the advent of the Nissan Leaf and …
Don't Miss the Plug-In 2010 Show in San Jose, CA
I hope to see a great number of friends and colleagues at this year’s Plug-In Show in San Jose, CA, July 26 – 29. So many things are happening in the development of battery EVs and plug-in hybrids that I …
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Electric Vehicles — Mitsubishi's i-MiEV Is Coming Soon
The role I play as a partner in EVWorld.com enables me to have conversations with people very much at the center of the EV Adoption Curve discussion. I just got off the phone with Joe Delello, currently the man closest …
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Electric Vehicles and the Traditional Automakers
I want to call readers’ attention to the discussion on what I think is one of the hottest and most important topics in clean energy: the EV adoption curve and the sincerity of the OEMs in building and selling EVs. …
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Car Sharing — Social Benefits — Part Three in a Series
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJgObXAA1Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1] Pat Mahan of FunRide discusses the social benefits of car sharing with me on a recent airing of the 2GreenEnergy Report. In my mind, the degree to which car sharing is successful is an indicator of the degree …
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How Sincere Are the Large Auto OEMs in Their Integration of Electric Vehicles?
My friend Paul Scott of Plug-in America has me convinced that the large auto OEMs – the Nissans and GMs of the world – are sincere in their integration of electric vehicles. But watching this process unfold surely does test …
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