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GM and Toyota agree: gas, battery prices defining parameters for plug-in acceptance

GM has not been secretive about how important gas prices in late 2010 will be on the price of the Chevy Volt. During a webchat this week, GM vice chairman Bob Lutz said again that higher gas prices are needed for the Volt to become "generalized." Specifically, he said: The Volt technology is very exciting, but costs will have to come down before it can become generalized, and U.S. fuel prices will have to rise to world levels, meaning $5 or $6 per gallon. Part of the reason, of course, is the high cost of the lithium-ion battery in the ... Read more →

REPORT: Toyota secretly tested lithium-ion Priuses for three years Sebastian Blanco

Details are scarce, but it turns out that Toyota has been testing Priuses with lithium-ion batteries in them for years. Not many vehicles were involved – Bloomberg says only 126 such Priuses ...

Columnist: Hybrid growth in the near-term will benefit ... lead-acid battery makers? Sebastian Blanco

Even though demand for hybrid vehicles is expected to grow like mushrooms after a summer rain in the coming years, there's a big problem looming, says John Peterson, a writer for investment site ...

New lithium-ion G-Wiz has 75-mile range, �15,795 price tag Sebastian Blanco

EDTA 2008: Prototype Toyota plug-in Prius is locked, darn it Sebastian Blanco

At the EDTA Conference this week in DC, a nicely-decorated plug-in Prius sat in the Toyota booth. As you can see in this picture, the prototype was locked and this was duly noted in stickers on ...

GM and Toyota agree: gas, battery prices defining parameters for plug-in acceptance 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

REPORT: Toyota secretly tested lithium-ion Priuses for three years 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Details are scarce, but it turns out that Toyota has been testing Priuses with lithium-ion batteries in them for years. Not many vehicles were involved – Bloomberg says only 126 such Priuses were on the roads in U.S., Japan and Europe – but the tests began in 2006. Toyota spokeswoman ...

Columnist: Hybrid growth in the near-term will benefit ... lead-acid battery makers? 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Even though demand for hybrid vehicles is expected to grow like mushrooms after a summer rain in the coming years, there's a big problem looming, says John Peterson, a writer for investment site Seeking Alpha. Peterson has crunched some numbers and done some reading and discovered that the ...

New lithium-ion G-Wiz has 75-mile range, �15,795 price tag 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

GoinGreen, the UK distributor of Reva's G-Wiz, has announced prices and specifications of the tiny quadricycle with upgraded lithium ion batteries. The good news: the new model has a range of up to 75 miles, up from 48 in the older, non-li-ion version. Both models sport a 51 mph top speed, but the ...

EDTA 2008: Prototype Toyota plug-in Prius is locked, darn it 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the EDTA Conference this week in DC, a nicely-decorated plug-in Prius sat in the Toyota booth. As you can see in this picture, the prototype was locked and this was duly noted in stickers on each door. We briefly spotted Toyota's Jaycie Chitwood by the car but when we went back to see if ...

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