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Toyota starts discussions on who will get PHEV Priuses

Toyota is getting ready to start deploying a fleet of 200 plug-in Prius hybrids in the coming months and the company needs to figure out what to do with them. The cars will all be leased for purposes of field testing. Toyota is now in discussions with federal and local governments and energy companies about who will get how many of the lithium ion battery Priuses. The company is looking for towns and cities that are, "actively promoting environmentally considerate vehicles." The PHEV Prius will be able to go up to 62 mph on electricity ... Read more →

It's Friday: Swedish automatic PHEV charging prod gets a big WTF? from us [w/VIDEO] Sebastian Blanco

Is it too harsh to say that the Trinnovator is a solution without a problem? At the very least, we don't think that a flexible, extendable prod coming out of the front bumper of a plug-in car and ...

Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context Sam Abuelsamid

The other day we reported on an interview with General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson published in the Washington Post. While most of the discussion focused on the bailout and bankruptcy, from the ...

Studies Say: a wrap up from the green car front: "Internalize the Externalities," more Sebastian Blanco

This is a particularly busy time for studies trying to understand the impact of green vehicles. Here's a quick round-up: Paul Scott writes that, for anyone to fairly compare driving plug-in ...

St. Petersburg to test 'plug-in' hybrid cars in green partnership Sam Abuelsamid

The city of St. Petersburg, Florida isn't part of Ford's plug-in hybrid test program but it will soon be testing a PHEV Escape anyway. Progress Energy will be partnering with the Florida city to ...

Nancy Gioia explains why Ford isn't doing an ER-EV 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

So far, the market for extended range electric vehicles in North America seems to be the exclusive province of General Motors, Chrysler and Fisker with Ford sticking to the parallel hybrid route - both with and without plugs. It's not that Ford hasn't investigated the concept of ER-EVs, they ...

Detroit 2009: Toyota's iQ based FT-EV concept to hit production in 2012 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

In addition to the new third generation Prius and its sibling the Lexus HS250h, Toyota will be showing a battery electric concept here in Detroit called the FT-EV. As previously suspected, the car is based on Toyota's new iQ mini-car. Prior to the opening of the show, Toyota sent out a press ...

Once you can charge up your ride anywhere, what happens? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There's an interesting line in a recent TIME magazine piece about a guy who's enjoying his new Vectrix scooter. Here it is: Once you start looking, you find plugs everywhere," says [James] Morrison, who charges his two-wheeler at parking garages, outside Starbucks stores and even in ...

Austin Alt Car: Congressman Lloyd Doggett talks PHEV tax credits and GM's influence 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) was present at the Alt Car Expo in Austin, Texas yesterday. This is quite the reasonable place for him to be, not just because he's the Representative from this area but because he's been a long-time promoter of more government support for plug-in vehicles. ...

Honda not interested in plug-in hybrids yet, batteries not ready 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The same week that General Motors unveiled the production version of its Volt extended range EV, Honda R&D president Masaaki Kato downplayed the importance of plug-in hybrids, at least in the short term. While GM and Toyota are both developing hybrid vehicles with plug-in capability and a wide ...

GM Centennial: How the Chevy Volt might affect the electric grid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Will_the_Chevy_Volt_affect_the_electric_grid'; Over at the RenCen yesterday, AutoblogGreen sat down with Britta Gross, GM's manager of Hydrogen and Electrical Infrastructure Development and Strategic Commercialization, and Mark Duvall, program manager at the ...

Silver lining: CARB creates huge new market for plug-in hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Reader reaction to last week's California Air Resources Board vote to cut the ZEV Mandate by 70 percent was pretty resoundingly negative (although it's only fair to note some of you said the result was a good thing). Automotive News' Richard Truett has written an article that finds the decision's ...

Reagan's Ex-Secretary of State asks Gov. Schwarzenegger to bring back the electric car 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As the California Air Resources Board meets today to vote on revisions to the ZEV Mandate, the voices calling on CARB to not kill the electric car all over again are rising. Jim Woolsey, Tesla's Ze'ev Drori, the Sierra Club and many more are telling CARB to keep the EV alive. Another voice, perhaps ...

Hybrid battery compromises charge for safety 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Lithium ion batteries have been bandied about as a possible solution to the development of more efficient regular hybrids, plug-ins, or practical electric vehicles. The Tesla roadster, for example, is powered by an extremely efficient lithium ion pack. Unfortunately such batteries have a greater ...


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