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Frankfurt 2009: all plugs and hybrids, no hydrogen

It's probable that, somewhere in the Frankfurt Messe this week, there are hydrogen-powered concept vehicles. From the headlines, though, it's clear that the world's automakers showing off their wares at the Frankfurt Motors Show are taking some time off from promoting the hydrogen fuel cell car and are putting all of their energy into the idea of a car with a plug. Even Audi, where an executive recently called electric cars "idiotic," made a big splash with their overwhelming e-tron concept. Perhaps we'll see more H2 cars when the auto ... Read more →

At Witz' End - Best of the Rest from the Center for Automotive Research automotive future forum Gary Witzenburg

I reported last month on Nissan's LEAF EV plans, as presented by Nissan Product Planning VP Larry Dominique at the August Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars (CAR MBS) in ...

One Gallon Challenge vehicles on the way to Boston Sebastian Blanco

The One Gallon Challenge kicked off this morning in Greenfield, Massachusetts and AutoblogGreen reader Peter L. sent in a short report and some pictures from the scene: Attached are some pix ...

At Witz' End - A sneak peak at the "new GM's" critically important product future Gary Witzenburg

It was probably mid-1980, soon after the federal government agreed to guarantee massive loans to financially struggling Chrysler Corp., when then-Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca invited groups of auto ...

At Witz' End: Turning over a new (Nissan) LEAF Gary Witzenburg

Had lunch the other day with Nissan North America Product Planning Vice President Larry Dominique. He is the point man for communicating Nissan's green-vehicle vision, beginning with its soon-to-come ...

At Witz' End - scoping out magazine coverage of electric vehicles 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

With so much information (and disinformation) available on the Web, does anyone read magazines any more? Most are struggling to retain both readers and advertisers, and many are going upside down. In the specialized area of auto magazines, there are still plenty of good examples in many flavors, ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A II 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

I really stepped in it last time by stating that GM never owned patent rights to Ovonic's NiMH batteries and never sold them to an oil company, and that no one sued Toyota. I believed those statements to be true at the time, but several of you straightened me out. However, since that complex issue ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

There was a lot of feedback (50 comments at last count) to my column on EV range anxiety, some thoughtful and intelligent, some not. The few who accuse me of being anti-electric vehicles, which I definitely am not, were not. Neither were the two (same guys each time) touting the idiotic conspiracy ...

At Witz' End: My night with range anxiety 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

I left the dinner meeting around 9:00, with home roughly 60 miles away...no challenge for an engine-powered vehicle, even relatively low on fuel. You can always find an open station. Not so on this 1997 night. I was driving an EV1 development vehicle freshly equipped with an experimental ...

At Witz' End: Detroit Auto Show: Reality Check - Part II 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

In my first column reality checking the Detroit Auto Show, some of you questioned my assertion that even Toyota's relatively high-volume hybrids are probably not profitable. Of course, Toyota has lowered the costs of its Hybrid Synergy Drive components over many years and hundreds of thousands of ...

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