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Plug-in Mercedes in 2012?

thumbnail Mercedes-Benz's S-Class sedan will offer a plug-in hybrid version when it hits the showrooms, reportedly in 2012, according to Autocar.c...

Flawed PHEV report has legs

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There has never been a shortage of stories in the press denigrating plug-in electric cars. Why? Because people naturally, logically believe ...

Yet another CARB ZEV meeting

thumbnail The California Air Resources Board (CARB) met on Thursday to discuss the Zero Emission Vehicle regulation and the revisions staff was tasked...

Oregon incentives to shift from hybrids to plug-ins

thumbnail Oregon's House has passed a bill to end the $1500 tax credit for conventional hybrid vehicles on the last day of 2009. After that point...

Volvo PHEV in 2012

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The web is filled with news of Volvo's partnership with Swedish energy company Vattenfall to bring a plug-in hybrid to market in 2012. ...

Toyota spokesman on PHEVs at EVS

thumbnail You can smell the PHEV procrastination. Asked by the reporter when the plug-in Prius on display will be available in Norway, he replies: ...

Mitsubishi PHEV concept to be unveiled

thumbnail Mitsubishi plans to show a concept plug-in hybrid at the Tokyo Auto Show. Larger and more upmarket than the all-electric iMiev scheduled to ...

How Ford got back in the EV game

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Ford has done it's share of electric cars, including the Ranger EV and Th!nk City that were its ZEV mandate cars in the '90s. The #2...

And Ford makes three

thumbnail In Congressional testimony last week, Alan Mullaly, head of Ford, committed the company to developing plug-in cars. Next month at the North...

Conference confirms plug-in fever

thumbnail Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, ...

Senate Strives for Palatable Energy Bill; Plug-in Credits In

thumbnail The Detroit News is reporting on the efforts in the Senate to craft a viable energy bill. As presently consitituted, the Senate bill drops...

Sierra Club California Weighs in for Electric Cars at CARB

thumbnail The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) monthly meeting today included the adoption of the State Alternative Fuel Plan . The analy...

The Chinese are Coming!

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Got2BeGreen reports BYD, a large Chinese firm that is jumping into cars, will be showing a plug-in hybrid, the F6DM, at the Detroit Auto Sho...

Corn Belt Mayor Plugs In

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GreenOptions blog reports that Mayor RT Rybak of Minneapolis is now driving a plug-in hybrid. His daily drive, a Prius, has been converted....

Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

thumbnail Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in ...

Plug-in hybrid by who?

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The Fisker Coachbuild name meant nothing to me, but I'm not really an auto geek. We recently read that this premium automobile design ...

WSJ on Electric Possibilities

thumbnail Joseph White, Wall St Journal Detroit bureau chief, is writing about electric cars again , this time about the majors. He's in Tokyo rep...

Toyota Plugging in with Nickel Metal Hydride

thumbnail Popular Mechanics got a look and briefing on Toyota's own plug-in Prius. And they said it couldn't or wouldn't be done. Or it w...

Co-op America Really Gets It! - Plug-ins YES; Ethanol NO!

thumbnail Co-op America has cut through the hype and hyperbole about "clean" cars. They did an excellent issue of their magazine analysing t...

Coal Into Cars: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

thumbnail The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. Extracting it is ruinous of the landscape and burning it has disastrous envir...

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