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CalCars questions DOE grants; small, innovative companies left out?

While it would seem that the Obama administration's $2.4 billion investment of Recovery Act grant money into electric car and battery development would be seen as a positive step to most green car advocates, not everyone is pleased with how the money was dolled out. According to CalCars, a number of smaller, innovative companies were left out of the proceedings. One such unnamed company "made the comparison to funding dinosaur land-line companies at the birth of the cellphone age." Mark Mills, chairman of start-up International Battery ... Read more →

CalCars: US customers could prepay for plug-in hybrids at $10,000 each Sebastian Blanco

At the EDTA Expo in DC this week, Felix Kramer of CalCars is circulating a proposal to a.) help the auto industry and b.) bring more plug-in vehicles (PHEVs) to market. The idea is for customers ...

CalCars jumps into the GM/Toyota PHEV battle. The winner is ... Sam Abuelsamid

Ron Gremban of CalCars has written an interesting guest piece over on Green Car Congress examining the debate between General Motors and Toyota that started last fall about the best approach to ...

100 MPG Plug In Prius on display in Boston Dan Roth

The Embedded Systems Conference in Boston played host to a buildup of a 100-mpg Prius equipped with a pair of additional battery packs and plug-in facilities. If Toyota won't build a series hybrid to ...

100 Silicon Valley executives to drive plug-in hybrids Lascelles Linton

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group has organized "Plug-in Push" which includes putting 100 plug-in hybrids into the hands of Silicon Valley executives. Cal Cars now estimates there are 70 plug-ins in ...

Is GM/BMW/Daimler's dual-mode hybrid too much? 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

With Toyota dominating the hybrid market, some other automakers are trying to play catch-up (not Ford, of course). But there are different types of hybrid engines, and the dual-mode hybrid system in development by GM and DaimlerChrysler and BMW has won praise from some analysts, but HybridCars.com ...

Plug-in hybrid car flown to Washington to promote green car technologies 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Timed to coincide with the Big Three automakers' CEOs meeting last week with President Bush (which the President cancelled), two groups who promote alternative fuel vehicles, Set America Free and CalCars, decided to take some plug in hybrids to the Capitol steps. The visit garnered attention from ...


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