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[Untitled] Tech Firms Seek $1 Billion For U.S. Car Battery Plant -- Electric ...: By working as a block, the tech companies aim to narrow the lead of Asian manufacturers, which supply the majority of batteries used today in hybrid vehicles and electric cars.

[Untitled] Green Car Congress: 14 US Companies, Argonne Lab Form National ...: The founding members of the Alliance include 3M, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies, Dontech Global, EaglePicher Corporation, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC, MicroSun Technologies, Mobius Power, SiLyte, Superior Graphite, and Townsend Advanced Energy. The founding members anticipate other battery developers and materials suppliers will join the Alliance.

[Untitled] New industry alliance tackles mass production of lithium batteries ...: The alliance, which includes battery industry giants such as 3M Co and Johnson Controls-Saft, intends to secure $1 billion to $2 billion in U.S. government funding over the next five years to build a manufacturing facility with an "open foundry" for the participants to pursue the goal of perfecting lithium-ion batteries for cars.

[Untitled] No Priuses Allowed at Hybrids and Harleys for Obama Rally ...: In an effort to criticize John McCain's economic policies and his apparent unwillingness to support "buy American" restrictions including Harley-Davidson motorcycles for the Secret Service, a group of American-made hybrid car owners and .

[Untitled] Cascadia Prospectus: The race to produce zero-emission vehicles is gathering particular speed in Asia, where Toyota has moved part way by hatching the plug-in Prius -- a car that's already debuted in Oregon, the state with the nation's highest per capita hybrid ownership.

[Untitled] Block heater Camry hybrid: This is a discussion on Block heater Camry hybrid within the Toyota Camry Hybrid forums, part of the Other Cars category; Has anyone installed the engine block heater on the Camry Hybrid?

[Untitled] Cascadia Prospectus: Under the (surface-transit option) if you leave West Seattle and drive through downtown going to north Seattle you will encounter 28 stop lights, a 90 degree turn to proceed through the Battery Street tunnel and a 30 mile per hour speed limit...I am not convinced that another elevated option will solve our transportation needs 50-plus years into the future. This is our opportunity to make Seattle a world class city with a world class waterfront.

[Untitled] Peace, order and good government, eh?: Why am I not surprised?: I mean obviously the guy who stamps the hoods for an SUV isn't someone who can design a better lithium battery, or even make the factory tools which make plug-in hybrids - I don't mean anything that crudely simplistic. But if the auto industry were to try to "turn on a dime" towards a new type of efficient vehicle, it would require a big huge dislocation with stoppages and inefficiency.

[Untitled] Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW | Autopia from Wired.com: (Of course at the time there was a regular Honda civic prototype with a new vtech engine that was already claiming 60mpg with only a new engine and no carbon fiber) In the end I believe the American companies came up with there 60mpg car, a ugly space age carbon fiber thing.

[Untitled] Seattle Transit Blog» More Viaduct Reports: The walls say that the city prefers some sort of hybrid B+C that combines the capacity of a pair of three-lane one-way streets with a strong transit investment. John Jensen @ 11:00 am. Seattle Transit Blog logo RSS feed | Trackback URI ...

[Untitled] Cascadia Prospectus: A shift to plug-in cars could also help the development of renewable power...While a power grid fueled by solar or wind would be clean...it would also be intermittent...But if millions of electric cars were plugged into the grid, they could act as mini-batteries, storing renewable electricity as it's generated ”” and eventually even channeling electricity back into grid during cloudy or windless days, a system called vehicle-to-grid. "If you have control over renewable power resources and plug-ins, you can start to synchronize the two," says John Clark, CEO of V2Green, a Seattle start-up that is looking to integrate the grid and plug-in vehicles, and which has already begun field trials with utilities in Austin, Texas.

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