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Austin Alt Car: panel looks at the future of plug-in hybrids

The last in our series of reports from the discussion panels from last week's Austin Alt Car expo focuses on the panel that had the broadest possible appeal: an overview of plug-in hybrids. Taking place on the Saturday, and therefore more accessible to the working public, the free-form panel featured Ron Johnston-Rodriguez of PluginCenter.com and the Port of Chelan County in Washington State, and Chelsea Sexton of Plug-In America. Austan Librach, who works for Austin Energy and Plug-in Partners (well, he used to work for PiP), moderated. ... Read more →

Austin Alt Car: Future Prospects for Plug-in Hybrids Sebastian Blanco

As I said earlier, the panels at the Austin Alt Car expo were heavily focused on plug-in vehicles. The last discussion on Friday continued the trend and was called "Future Prospects for Plug-in ...

Austin Alt Car: Will Consumers Buy In? Duh. Sebastian Blanco

If you want to get an answer to the question of whether or not consumers will flock to plug-in vehicles, Southern California Edison's Ed Kjaer and Better Place's Sven Thesen would be great people to ...

Austin Alt Car: PHEV opportunities and challenges for utilities Sebastian Blanco

When was the last time you talked to your electric power company? I mean, really sat down and had a good chat about when they should send you power and when they shouldn't? Have you told them when ...

Austin Alt Car: Z Wheelz shows off Porsche EV and ZW2 Sebastian Blanco

The two vehicles that Gary Krysztopik and Z Wheelz brought to Alt Cat Austin this weekend could not be more different. One the one hand, we have the ZW2 (above), a hot rod like trike with all ...


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