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[Green Car Congress] GM and Electric Utility Industry Launch Collaboration in Support ...: General Motors, EPRI and the utility companies will work on everything from codes and standards to grid capability to provide an infrastructure to support the Chevy Volt, the Saturn Vue Plug-in Hybrid and other plug-in vehicles when they come to market. Details of the alliance””the largest and most-comprehensive yet between an automaker and the electric utility industry””were announced in San Jose during the Plug-In 2008 Conference.
[Green Car Advisor] Coulomb Technologies to Test Charging Infrastructure for Electric ...: Although Tesla Motors has begun producing plug-in battery-electric cars and other automakers have electric vehicles in the works, many EV owners will likely have difficulty finding places to recharge their vehicles away from home. Coulomb hopes to provide the solution with their network, which Lowenthal described as a seamless, scalable, reliable and cost-effective solution.
[Maureen Grey] Plug-In 2008: Check out what San Jose is hosting this week: Plug-In 2008, a convention about plug-in hybrid cars, which runs Monday through Thursday at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The event isn’t open to the public but does include a .
[Oilweek Online] Conference panelists see car battery breakthrough (Electric-Cars): are rushing to bring plug-ins to market as high gasoline prices have severely cut into U.S. auto sales. GM is developing an extended-range plug-in electric vehicle called the Chevrolet Volt, which it hopes to launch in 2010, and Toyota says it will bring out a plug-in hybrid with lithium-ion batteries by 2010 that it will target toward leasing customers.
[Green Car Advisor] GM and EPRI Team Up to Prepare Utilities for Coming EVs and PHEVs: Besides cutting dependence on foreign oil, the use of electric vehicles would reduce greenhouse gases caused by burning petroleum. However, electricity is generated in part by coal-fired power generating stations, although technology is rapidly developing to contain carbon emissions in this area.
[Green Car Congress] Coulomb Technologies Introduces New Smart Charging Infrastructure ...: While people have been waiting for the latest greatest LiIon batteries to be developed and made, it turns out that lead acid batteries will allow for useful plug-in-hybrids at lower costs. Competant engineers will realise that heavy batteries to get long distance do not make economic sense if they are seldom used to capacity, and a small engine-generator with only a hundred pounds of fuel will have a car go several hundred miles.
[Business blog] GM eyes electric car future, joins with power companies: A team of GM engineers and designers is working on the Volt, hoping to be the leader in plug-in electric vehicles. Other automakers, including Toyota, also are working on similar vehicles.
[Kentucky.com: Business] GM, utilities join to study electric car impact: It's coming into production," said Britta Gross, a GM engineer who is helping to build the infrastructure for cars of the future. "We know that when the vehicle is in the showroom and ready for sale, it's got to work seamlessly with the infrastructure.
[Team-BHP] Intel's Grove Wants to Convert Existing Cars to Electric!: GM's Volt plug-in car, due in two years, is the right idea, though it's coming too late, Grove said. Along with a delayed reaction by automakers, he says he is disappointed that large U.S. companies such as GE haven't pushed for a rapid shift away from imported energy.
[Hybrid Car Chat Blog] Public Welcome to PHEV Exhibition In San Jose: The public is invited to the Plug-In 2008 Exposition and Conference, July 22, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Tickets are $10 each and will permit entry into the exhibit hall to see plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and PHEV technologies.
[Blog Articles Tagged with 'ev' at http://www.greenedia.com] San Jose residents can get a PHEV and BEV fix at Plug-In 2008 ...: Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Green DailyComing up in a few weeks is the Plug-in 2008 conference and expo, a three-day event (July 22-24) highlighting the benefits of cars with plugs. The official sessions will deal with related ...
[Barbara Woodhouse Car Blog] AutoblogGreen for 07.10.08: An electric police car in Japan, a greener Lotus Elise, and the Revenge of the Electric Car are just a few of the topics covered at AutoblogGreen yesterday. You'll also find more on the hybrid Hyundai Elantra, news of MINI's electric plans for California, and see how two politiciains on opposing sides roll on parade duty.
[Tim Blair always online! Military-Veterans-Media-Press organizing the world's News & blog. Seattle, Washington usa "daylife"] mercurynews.com: Roche, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, already owns 56 percent of Genentech, the world's biggest biotech company in terms of stock value and second biggest in revenue to Amgen of Thousand Oaks. Under a deal it announced today, Roche offered to buy all of Genentech's remaining stock for $89 per share, or about $43.7 billion.
[CAD News Daily] Latest CAD News: From the CADDmanager blog: Searchable Flash Sites - “Adobe Flash Technology Enhances Search Results for Dynamic Content and Rich Internet Applications SAN JOSE, Calif”¦” From the Revit OpEd blog: Nvidia Chip Reliability Issues - “Suffers ...
[L-experiences] Top Environmental Blogs: New BMW 7-series hybrid uses lithium, still won't match efficiency of diesel BMW not planning to increase Mini production, may increase price San Jose residents can get a PHEV and BEV fix at Plug-In 2008 Public Night .
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