Archive for September 1st, 2008

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, European Union, Paris Motor Show
The Pininfarina / Bollore electric car project was said to be “going as planned” despite the tragic death of Andrea Pininfarina. who was overseeing the operation around which the Italian design company was being financially restructured. Addressing a press conference, Bollore head Vincent Bollore attempted to calm any… »

Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, GM, South/Latin America, USA

As part of the activities surrounding this past weekend’s Detroit Grand Prix, General Motors hosted a panel discussion on biofuels. The panel consisted of GM VP Beth Lowery, Joel Valesco of UNICA (the Brazilian sugar cane industry trade group, Michigan State University Professor Bruce Dale, former World driving… »

Filed under: Natural Gas, UK
The whole point of what’re called “alternative fuels” is that they offer a driver something other than gasoline to put into the tank. With that in mind, it makes sense that Proton is happy to announce the new dual-fuel ecoLogic GEN-2 in the UK. These new models can burn either standard… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, GM, Saturn

During the recent Plug-in conference in San Jose CA, Matt Kelly of GMNext talked with Larry Nitz about the new PHEV version of the Saturn Vue. The PHEV Vue is still at least a year away and is based on the Two-Mode Vue that comes out late this year. The… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USA

Just the other day we were asking ourselves if the price of the most expensive component of electric cars, the lithium ion batteries, will ever come down. As if to answer our query Charles Gassenheimer, Chief Executive over at battery maker Ener1, has come back with the answer we hoped to hear…. »

Filed under: Transportation Alternatives, Green Daily
There is no shortage of online carpooling or rideshare websites -PickupPal, Ridester, 511 Rideshare, to name just three. What might set the new “carpool community” Zimride apart is a tie-in with Facebook (it’s also a Facebook app) that will give users an easy way to find out a thing or… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Zap

We remember when Zap revived the name Detroit Electric, a classic, last year but the details haven’t been coming very fast and furious since then. Zap announced late last week that the U.S.-Chinese partnership (with China Youngman Automobile Group) is now headed over the Atlantic to find both money and tech help…. »

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The VW van is a fairly common sight in Alameda, so much so that I keep passing by most T2 Transporters without stopping to photograph them (we’ve seen numerous T1 buses:… »