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[Electric Car Blogging] Consulting Firm: Chinese Hybrid and Electric Cars Are Overhyped ...: Sullivan, a global market research firm, believes the pace of growth for China’s hybrid and electric car market has been exaggerated. “While we believe hybrids have a good future, the sales in China’s future market have been overhyped,” wrote Tristin Lin, senior consultant of automation &

[Renewable Energy Stocks News and Green Business News at Investorideas.com] Investorideas.com - Frost & Sullivan Sees China Heading Toward ...: Instead of being a 'bridge technology', however, Frost & Sullivan sees hybrids a necessary step for eventually heading toward battery electric vehicles or fuel cell vehicles and remain in the mainstream for quite some time in China. This is because the consumers are not fully aware of the advantages of battery electric vehicles and will slowly accept the technology.

[Earth2Tech] China's Cars to Go (Mostly) Electric Within A Decade, Says Report: vehicles (hybrids, electric vehicles, etc.) to be produced this year and is implementing a $1.5 billion research subsidy plan over the next three years for automakers to improve their electric-vehicle technology.  This piece highlights the efforts of BYD, Chery, SAIC, FAW, Beiqin Foton, Harbin Hafei, Geely, Volkswagen,GM, Toyota and Nissan in the new energy vehicle space.  Zhejiang Wanxing Group is the latest player to the EV race.  The Renault-Nissan alliance, which is partnered with Better Place in various electric vehicle network projects around the world, plans to sell electric cars as early as 2011 and help develop an EV-charging network in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province.  BYD Auto has helped the local government of Shenzhen set up twenty 220-volt charging pillars in office and residential areas.  An interesting U.S.-based startup, Adura Systems, plans to sell modular series hybrid powertrains for buses in China.

[welcome2green.com] Investorideas.com - Frost & Sullivan Sees China Heading Toward ...: According to government officials and Chinese auto executives, China is expected to raise its annual production capacity to 500000 hybrid or all- electric cars and buses by …

[CarMK.com] Frost & Sullivan Sees China Heading Toward ”˜Green’ Cars: auto show, more than 20 hybrid vehicles are unveiled by Chinese domestic OEMs. Since their introduction in the US in late 1999, hybrid cars were considered as a short-lived second-rate technology that briefly serves a .

[David Leggett's automotive industry blog - from just-auto.com] UK: More government support 'critical' for EV market: Automotive ...: The firm also says that to make the EV dream a reality, governments need to ensure the availability of at least four charging points per EV in the 1st year, thereafter reducing to 2.5 charging points per EV by the 5th year. A fast charging infrastructure is also required, possibly including battery swapping stations at a ratio of one per 100 EVs sold during the 1st year, followed by one per 1000 EVs post the 5th year of sales.

[Electric and Hybrid Cars Online Magazine] Newest trend? Electric cigarettes - ScrippsNews: President Barack Obama and others are calling for a boom in electric vehicle production, which seems simple enough on the surface: Build the cars and plug them in. If only it were that easy.

[The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进] The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Green Hops: New Renewable Energy ...: By contrast, the Green Leap Forward, is an emerging movement to harness and combine the powerful forces of smart policy, sustainable finance and green technologies to steer China's red-hot economy onto a more ecologically and socially sustainable path. Unlike its predecessor, the Green Leap Forward is as much a bottom-up revolution as it is a top-down one and in this age of increasing global interconnectedness, is a movement that will have an impact beyond its borders.

[HybridCars.com] News | Hybrid Cars: Where you can find the nearly 1.2 million hybrids in use in the United States? We'll show you in our new Hybrid Heatmap.

[Earthfuture] Earthfuture: The Carbon Years - Then Lift-Off!: Frost &: Sullivan: Three Phases for Green Cars in China - Frost & Sullivan, a global consultancy and market analysis firm, believes that there will three phases for the development of green cars in China: LPG/CNG an. ...

[The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进] The Green Leap Forward 绿跃进 » Green Hops: Drought, Cars and ...: By contrast, the Green Leap Forward, is an emerging movement to harness and combine the powerful forces of smart policy, sustainable finance and green technologies to steer China's red-hot economy onto a more ecologically and socially sustainable path. Unlike its predecessor, the Green Leap Forward is as much a bottom-up revolution as it is a top-down one and in this age of increasing global interconnectedness, is a movement that will have an impact beyond its borders.

[noworldsystem.com] Hybrid Swine Flu Is A Bio-Weaponized Agent « noworldsystem.com: There are many reasons to be concerned about what exactly is in all vaccines, Baxter was caught red-handed putting the H5N1 virus in their vaccines, the vaccines that were given to soldiers in 1976 gave them nerve disorders and killed a few, that is the reason why this swine flu “pandemic” story could all be just hype scaring the masses into being inoculated with who knows what.

[The Energy Blog] The Energy Blog: End in Sight for Silicon Shortage in Solar industry: I almost went after Charles Barton's comment about nuclear power costing about $.02 per KWH, but it was vague enough that in context he could have meant the incremental (fuel, operation and maintenance) costs, and not the total costs which include the sunk cost of constructing the plants. Pro or con, I prefer facts to misinformation, and yes, you can use the same growth curve to argue both ways, with saturation point a key.

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