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Better Place answers questions about home charging, Obama's interest

Over the weekend, we heard a story that the Obama Administration "may be adopting" the Better Place model of powering electric cars. We wanted to know more about what this means, exactly, and got the following from Better Place PR: Better Place has shared their model with a number of government and industry leaders around the world in the past two years and believe that their model is applicable to the entire US under the right economic conditions. They're hopeful that California and Hawaii will serve as an important blueprint for how the ... Read more →

Miles EV CEO talks about highway speed electric sedan, company's future Sebastian Blanco

A little while back, we got our first official peek of the Miles EV highway speed sedan. That picture can now be fleshed out a bit with details on how Miles EV is planning to bring this Chinese-built ...

ABG chats with SmartUSA president David Schembri about EVs, diesel, micro-hybrids and more Sam Abuelsamid

One of the newest cars to drop into the US market is the Smart ForTwo. A decade after its European debut, the two-seat city car finally arrived stateside after several abortive attempts by both its ...

Auto Alliance president talks about the other president and changes in Washington Sebastian Blanco

Following the big change that swept through American politics on Nov. 4, there has been a lot of celebration in a lot of places. Over at the Auto Allliance, the association made up of BMW Group, ...

AltCar 2008: Details on the MIIN-AER compressed air Porsche Boxster Sebastian Blanco

As I wrote on Thursday, one of the more interesting vehicles here at the Alt Car Expo is a one-off home conversion of a 1999 Porsche Boxster called the MIIN-AER car. We wanted to get some more ...

AutoblogGreen on the Radio 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Listen in to a fascinating conversation that took place yesterday on green car politics, featured on the radio show, "Your Call." (KALW, 91.7 FM, San Francisco, CA). The show gave me a chance to discuss some of my research on "The Clean Car Movement," and also featured Meghan Sinott (Organizer for ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk Pt. 3 - Lessons and WhiteStar hints 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In the first two parts of our discussion, Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk described how he came to be a part of Tesla Motors and how he influenced the development of the Roadster. It's important to note that he never described himself as the designer or creator of the Roadster. Rather he considers ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk Pt. 1 - In the beginning 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Among the readers of this site, one of the cars that elicits a lot of passion is the Tesla Roadster. The battery-powered Roadster and its provenance have elicited a great deal of discussion over the past nine months, in particular since the demotion and ultimately the departure of co-founder Martin ...

All of Madrid's official vehicles will use clean fuels by 2011 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Madrid, Spain, is currently a very polluted city where 1.8 million vehicles are responsible for 75 percent of the pollutants in the air. Madrid's City Hall has decided that it will switch all its vehicles over to "clean" fuels, that is, they will be all running on electricity, natural gas, ...

AVFI 2008: Sitting down for a moment with GM's Larry Burns 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When Larry Burns, GM's vice president of R&D and planning, spoke at the opening session of the AFVI expo yesterday morning, he stayed on target to bring GM's message to the conference. Before he stepped onto the stage, we had a chance to sit down with him and ask a few question One thing I ...

Earth Day: Top five upcoming green events 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As we cover the automotive industry, we run across numerous events which lean, in one way or another, towards our green preferences. Some of these could be very influential on the industry while others are really more for fun. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of our top five favorite ...

Top 20 most exciting green cars we wish we could buy today 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When we were brainstorming ideas for Earth Day posts, we thought about featuring the ten most exciting green cars we wish we could buy today. It turns out that there are at least twice as many green rides on the horizon that we'd really like to have today, so the list has expanded. We'd like to ...

New York 2008: Jory Squibb returns with an X-Prize entry 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enter gallery We met Jory Squibb way back in late 2006 over at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo. How can you miss a guy driving a tiny, 100+mpg bubble car called the Moonbeam? Jory, from Maine, is now back on the ABG radar with his presence at the New York Auto Show. He didn't have a car with ...

New York 2008: Motive Industries' muscular X Prize entry vehicle needs a name 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Of the 60+ teams that have signed a letter of intent to participate in the Progressive Automotive X Prize, about 15 were on hand at the New York Auto Show. With only four cars on stage, it's easy to calculate that some teams arrived sans vehicle. The group from Motive Industries had just a little ...

New York 2008: Actually, it's not called the Air Car - Q&A with MDI's Guy Negre 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Automotive X Prize announcer used it. We've been using if forever. And, until recently, MDI and Zero Pollution Motors were still calling their vehicles the Air Car. Now, though, to avoid confusion as much as possible, the preferred term is "Compressed Air Vehicle" (don't look now, but the ZPM ...

New York 2008: Venture Vehicle's Howard Levine on the future of the VentureOne 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge When we saw the distinctive shape of the VentureOne under wraps before the start of the Progressive Automotive X Prize announcement, we were pretty psyched. While the appearance of this vehicle on stage does revive our hope that we'll be able to drive one of these high-mpg hybrids ...

New York 2008: So, 'bout those green car ads - IAG sits down with AutoblogGreen 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Sallie Hirsch, left, and Lois Miller. One of the quieter announcements from the New York Auto Show was that a Subaru ad called Soul of Subaru - Values won the Green Award from Intermedia Advertising Group (IAG). The ad won not because a panel of judges thought it was the best but because IAG ...

New York 2008: West Philly's Hybrid Attack makes other high schools look lame 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge If the person being interviewed in the picture above looks a little bit young, well, that's because he is. He's a student at the West Philadelphia High School Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, which is fielding the youngest team of entrants in the Progressive ...

New York 2008: Progressive Insurance CEO on why he's spending $10m on the Auto X Prize 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In the general hub-bub before the Automotive X-Prize kick-off event yesterday, we cornered Progressive Insurance's President and CEO Glenn Renwick for a few brief moments to get his thoughts on the prize. I mean, it's his company that is putting up the ten million dollars in prize money, so you can ...

New York 2008: Auto Alliance re-emphasizes focus on environment and safety 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When the U.S. Congress passes or is about to pass some legislation relating to issues of automobile safety or vehicles' ecological impact, the Auto Alliance speaks up. Why do we only hear from the group on these issues? The Alliance's Charles Territo sat down with us at the New York Auto Show to ...

New York 2008: We sit down with Milner Motors to talk AirCar and ElectriCar 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When we first encountered the Milner Motors ElectriCar yesterday, we just did a quick flyby with out cameras and then headed off to other events. Later in the afternoon, we returned for a 15 minute chat with Chris Milner, the AirCar inventor's son and a partner in the company. He talked about the ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Prabhakar Patil of Compact Power, Inc 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The other day, Dr. Prabhakar Patil of Compact Power, Inc. was up in Vancouver, BC for the Auto FutureTech Summit. While AutoblogGreen wasn't able to attend the show, we did get a hold of Dr. Patil on the phone for about 15 minutes to talk about CPI's lithium ion batteries and get Dr. Patil's ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Toyota's Bob Carter and Jaycie Chitwood 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the Chicago Auto Show ABG had the chance to sit down with Toyota's Bob Carter and Jaycie Chitwood. Bob is currently the Group VP for the Toyota Division and Jaycie is the Senior Strategic Planner. We talked about a range of issues including hybrid marketing, diesel, ethanol, hydrogen and weight ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Peter Savagian talks about studying driver behavior and how it influences EV design 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The other day I had the opportunity to talk with Peter Savagian of General Motors about a study that he and his colleagues E.D. Tate and Michael Harpster completed. They used real-world driving data recorded from over 600 drivers and ran simulations with different combinations of hybrid and ...

Chicago 2008: Bridgestone talks about "One Team, One Planet" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

I came across the Bridgestone booth at the Chicago Auto Show while they were rehearsing for an upcoming press conference. Ex-NFL player Eddie George was running through the script and Bridgestone was showing off its Super Bowl commercials, but I was more interested in the booth's "One Team, One ...

Chicago 2008 AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata's Wes Bolsen on the ICM partnership 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

To get a little more information out of Coskata about this morning's announcement of a partnership with ICM to build the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant using Coskata's proprietary process (past details on Coskata are here), we tracked down Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer, business ...

Detroit 2008: AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tom Purves CEO of BMW-NA 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Prior to the kick-off of frenzy of press conferences at the Detroit Auto Show, ABG had the opportunity to talk with BMW-North America CEO Tom Purves and another BMW representative. We discussed the company's diesel announcement along with their hybrid and hydrogen plans. ABG: We're here with Tom ...

Detroit 2008: AutoblogGreen Q&A: Malcolm Bricklin talks about building a PHEV supply base 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

During the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, ABG sat down to chat with Malcolm Bricklin about his latest project Visionary Vehicles. Mr. Bricklin has been involved in the car business for four decades and could be described as a serial entrepenuer. Over the years his projects have had varying degrees of ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata CEO Bill Roe on cellulosic ethanol partnership with GM 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In the latest AutoblogGreen podcast, we featured an interview with Coskata president and CEO Bill Roe. This is a transcription of that interview. For a way-too detailed look at the GM-Coskata cellulosic ethanol partnership discussed in this chat, check out this post. ABG: I'm here with Bill Roe, ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: The latest on Volt batteries with Denise Grey 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/The_Latest_on_Chevy_Volt_Batteries_Q_A_with_GM_Director'; At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week we were able to catch up again with Denise Grey, the Director of Energy Storage Systems for General Motors for another update on battery ...

ABG Q&A: Beau Boeckmann's tricked out 2008 Ford F-450 Super Duty runs on biodiesel and hydrogen 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Beau_Boeckmann_s_tricked_out_2008'; In the latest AutoblogGreen podcast, we spoke with Beau Boeckmann, the president of Galpin Auto Sports (they do the Pimp My Ride cars), about the truck you see in the picture above. What started out as a normal Ford F450 ...

EVS23: Up close and personal with the Modec, the all-electric delivery truck 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Well, here's at least one neat vehicle that Europeans currently have that Americans will soon be able to buy: the Modec all-electric truck. You might be familiar with the Modec from our previous posts (see below) but the short story is that this is a delivery van specifically designed for modern ...

EVS23: AutoblogGreen Q&A with Valence Technology on lithium phosphate batteries 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Just before EVS23 kicked off, Valence Technology announced a new, large-format lithium battery called Epoch. Epoch is the name for Valence's third-generation lithium phosphate batteries. These Epoch batteries were improved based on customer comments and concerns over earlier generations. In part ...

EVS23: AutoblogGreen Q&A on Smart Fuel Cell's methanol fuel cells 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Say "fuel cell" to someone in the auto industry and I bet you dollars to donuts that they'll think you're talking about hydrogen. Well, I'll make the bet unless you're speaking to Dr. Jens Müller or Dr. Peter Podesser of Smart Fuel Cells. These two men were in Anaheim for EVS23 to showcase ...

EVS23: ExxonMobil talks with AutoblogGreen on new lithium-ion battery technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Late last week, ExxonMobil announced that it, along with Japanese company Tonen Chemical, had developed a new plastic film technology for automotive lithium-ion batteries. And, since ExxonMobil was going to be at EVS23, I set up an interview with people who could tell AutoblogGreen readers more ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Jonathan Williams and the hydrogen minibus (EVS23 preview) 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the technologies that will be covered at next week's EVS23 in Anaheim will be a prototype minibus that is powered by a tribrid system (that is, the bus uses hydrogen fuel cells, lead acid batteries and ultracapacitors). The bus project is managed by Jonathan Williams at the University of ...

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