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EnerDel's Ulrik Grape talks lithium ion batteries

Business Week has published a very interesting interview with Ulrik Grape, EnerDel's chief executive, about his vision on cars we'll drive in the near future, Toyota's plans and the challenges of lithium-ion technology. Of course, his answers focus on to the applications of new car battery technologies, whether for EVs, hybrids or plug-in hybrids. Grape's general idea is that cars will use electricity more, almost to the point that he believes most cars will have batteries to store energy for motion purposes. What's interesting is that he ... Read more →

Oh, BusinessWeek, what's with "Luxury Cars for Fun and Fuel Efficiency"? Sebastian Blanco

Does anyone really think a 21-mpg BMW 328i is a fuel-efficient vehicle? Apparently Jim Henry of BusinessWeek does. Henry has written an article that tries to make the point that drivers with fat ...

Business Week takes on green tech in a special report Jeremy Korzeniewski

There are some very simple ways to make green improvements in your life, like switching to CFL bulbs instead of using standard incandescent bulbs. Recycling is another rather simple way that you can ...

$3-plus-per-gallon gasoline doesn't hurt enough to make people change Sebastian Blanco

Perhaps we're talking about moving the goal posts here, but BusinessWeek has an article out today that figures the breaking point for getting American consumers to change their car shopping and ...

Alternative fuels will be key factor in car of the future Mike Magda

BusinessWeek.com has just posted a colorful and engaging multi-story report on high-tech cars. The one piece covering alternative fuel called on MIT professors to give their thoughts. They believe ...

Ford and Volvo to invest $1.36 billion for new hybrid technology 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

With hybrids the alternative vehicle of choice for most consumers (yes, there are more flexible-fuel vehicles on the roads today, but how many people fill them with E85?), Ford and its Volvo subsidiary announced last week that they would invest over a billion dollars in a new center in Goteborg to ...

Business Week bullish on ADM, no mention of "ethanol bubble" 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Calling ethanol a "now-vital liquid", Business Week on Wednesday has an entirely upbeat report on agribusiness giant ADM's recent profits, driven in part by surging prices of ethanol, completely ignoring the warning of an "ethanol bubble" we mentioned here yesterday. ADM is the ...


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