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AltCar 2009: Dan Neil, "Some Inconvenient Questions," and GM hints it could sell Chevy Volt gliders

On top of the test drives (Wheego Whip), test rides (Coda Sedan) and a visit to the unlimited energy booth, a highlight of the AltCar Expo last weekend was getting to hear the LA Times' premiere auto scribe Dan Neil moderate two sessions called "Some Inconvenient Questions." Neil was lucky to have on his panels some of the most knowledgeable people in the green car world who were able to discuss and promote their favored technologies (plug-in hybrids, hydrogen, etc.) without beating each other up. Well, Neil dished out a few critical hits ... Read more →

AltCar 2009: Riding in Green Vehicles' Triac, a prototype that is not quite ready Sebastian Blanco

The history of the Green Vehicles' Triac is a convoluted one. First surfacing in the summer of 2008, promised delivery dates in November and December 2008 were not kept, but Green Vehicles' Ehab ...

AltCar 2009: EF9's "unlimited clean energy" turbine could go into cars, if it works Sebastian Blanco

Mark Tanner, who does R&D for EF9 Energy Systems, was pretty wiped out by the time we got to speak with him at the end of AltCar 2009 in Santa Monica last weekend. It's understandable. He'd ...

AltCar 2009: NuTech battery swap trailer is fresh, kind of crazy Sebastian Blanco

The most interesting electric vehicle concept product we saw at the AltCar expo in Santa Monica this weekend was the automatic battery charger and changer from NuTech Energy Solutions. Since the ...

AltCar 2009: Touring the show with the Governator Sebastian Blanco

During the opening day of the 2009 AltCar Expo & Conference here in Santa Monica, Governor Schwarzenegger stopped by for a tour of the green vehicles on display. He learned about the Volt from ...

AltCar 2009: California Fuel Cell Partnership giving out free t-shirts w/winning slogan 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Readers had a lot of fun with the California Fuel Cell Partnership's t-shirt slogan earlier this year. The winning slogan wasn't one of the snarky options – it's "Ahead of the Pact with a Fuel Cell Stack" – and now the CaFCP is ready to start getting the word out about hydrogen via ...

AltCar 2009: Vision Industries to display fuel cell truck at Santa Monica 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

The annual Alt Car Expo is coming up this weekend at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and Vision Industries will be on hand to display its Tyrano semi tractor. This is no typical smoke-belching, diesel-powered semi. In fact, the only thing emitted by this hauler is water vapor. The Tyrano is a ...

Austin Alt Car: panel looks at the future of plug-in hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

Austin Alt Car: Future Prospects for Plug-in Hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 Hybrids" and the participants acknowledged that their presentations were treading over some of the same ...

Austin Alt Car: obscene amount of information on the smart grid and plug-in vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The overwhelming theme of the discussion panels at the Austin Alt Car expo last weekend was plug-in vehicles. From questions of infrastructure to the vehicles themselves to the grid load, the weekend served as a crash course in the state of the PHEV industry. Throughout this weekend UPDATE: ...

Austin Alt Car: Propane participates proudly 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the more organized presences at the first Austin Alt Car expo this past weekend was from the Texas propane community. From propane-powered lawnmowers to a giant propane-powered school bus, you couldn't miss the vehicles. Three pro-propane groups - the Texas Propane Educational & Marketing ...

Austin Alt Car: Austin Energy ends Plug-in Partners, unveils new smart charging software 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The one press announcement at this weekend's Alt Car Expo in Austin, Texas had to do with the efforts of the local utility, Austin Energy. Austin Energy is hosting this Expo, and used it to mark the end of the Plug-in Partners campaign. Wait, using an alt car show to call an end to a movement ...

AltCar 2008: Some thoughts on year three 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The third Santa Monica Alt Car Expo has come and gone. AutoblogGreen has been lucky enough to attend each iteration of this growing expo, and being back in Santa Monica made us want to take a look back. In December 2006, the first event was held at the Barker Hanger not long after the Tesla ...

AltCar 2008: Terry Tamminen says green is the new red, white and blue 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Here's a tip for Terry Tamminen: retire the joke already. You know, the one about Arnold Schwarzenegger and whoever just introduced you as a speaker, how they were pumping iron together back in the day? We heard it about Ed Begley at the 2006 Alt Car Expo and then again at AFVI in 2007. When ...

AltCar 2008: TrioBike, the pedal-powered SUV for three 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Not everything at the AltCar Expo was an alternative car. Some, like the Prometheus electric motorcycle and the TrioBike (above) were car alternatives. In fact, the TrioBike is really a next-generation SUV. I mean, that designation just means sports utility vehicle, right? It doesn't have to ...

AltCar 2008: LA Times panel hates/loves GM, and more 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For me, the highlight of the weekend's panel discussions at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo was two guys just sitting around and chatting. The reason the hour-long freeflowing discussion between the men was so good was that they - Dan Neil (left in the picture above) and Ken Bensinger, both writers ...

AltCar 2008: Chris Paine talks "Who Killed?" sequel, coming in 2010 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the highlights of Day One of the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo was spending an hour with "Who Killed the Electric Car?" director Chris Paine and hearing stories about making both that film and his sequel-in-progress. While he said the studio/lawyers would not let him show any clips from the new ...

AltCar 2008: half of those 100 Auto X Prize teams are working on low-speed vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

During a panel discussion on public transportation today at the Santa Monica AltCar Expo, Cristin Lindsay, senior director of the Automotive X Prize, gave us a bit more information about the teams that have signed up to participate in the race. You might remember that in late August, the X Prize ...

AltCar 2008: Transforming Transit Symposium says hell yeah to buses 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The morning discussion session at the AltCar Expo here in Santa Monica today focused not on a car at all, but the Big Blue Bus. This iconic ride is Santa Monica's most visible public transportation option and is currently undergoing some conceptual redesigns. A panel of people with an interest in ...

Altcar 2008: Big Blue Buses of the future unveiled 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Three new and radical bus concepts were unveiled in Santa Monica this morning as part of the third annual AltCar Expo. The bus of the future contest is an exercise in what's possible down the road, but it's also very timely: public transportation ridership in Santa Monica is up seven percent ...

Santa Monica AltCar Expo 2008 preview rocks a parking lot 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Well, today was day zero of the third annual Santa Monica AltCar Expo. The public is invited to check out all of the green rides at the Santa Monica Civic Center starting tomorrow, but anyone who was walking by the center's parking lot this morning could get an early taste of what will be on ...

AltCar Expo 2007: Transportation Planning Session 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At the Transportation Planning Session panel on Friday morning, the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo gave space for a variety of speakers to expound on the broad challenges confronting transportation planners in the region. While the discussion focuses on how LA can improve, there are a lot of areas in the ...


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