Zombie meme alert: electric cars cause cancer

Filed under: Etc. , Green Daily , First Drive Apparently, the range anxiety meme isn’t enough. The latest anti-electric vehicle (EV) topic to make a comeback is that EVs might give you cancer ( previous post )

No Surprise: Volkswagen reportedly to take 20% stake in Suzuki

Filed under: Suzuki , Volkswagen Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Though Suzuki CEO Osamu Suzuki would beg to differ , it seems that the old saying has once again been proven accurate. After a ton of rumor, innuendo and speculation on the matter - along with the subsequent denials - a report from Reuters indicates that Volkswagen is indeed on the verge of announcing that it’s procuring a 20 percent stake in Suzuki

Five EVs, one hydrogen car, one PHEV named as finalists for 2010 Green Car Vision Award

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hydrogen , Washington DC Auto Show Audi A3 TDI - Click above for high-res image gallery The Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car Journal ’s 2010 Green Car of the Year yesterday , and the magazine is already looking ahead to next month, when the Green Car Vision Award will be announced at the Washington Auto Show at the end of January. The five finalists for this award, given to cars that aren’t available yet but show a lot of eco-promise, include the Nissan Leaf, Coda Automotive’s electric sedan, the Ford Focus BEV, the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell and Toyota’s plug-in Prius. That’s a pretty good selection, considering that some other suitable candidates were named as finalists last year, when the winner was the Chevy Volt (the others were: Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Honda FCX Clarity, Fisker Karma and MINI E).

Fisker: VP Biden not the reason we chose Delaware

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Manufacturing/Plants , Fisker Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery What does Joe Biden have to do with Fisker Automotive ? On the surface, the answer would seem to be nothing at all..

Speak No Evil: Latest Aptera newsletter stays mum about company turmoil

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Green Daily , Aptera Aptera 2e final design rendering - Click above to enlarge Aptera Motors has been in the news recently because there’s been a lot of trouble behind the scenes, with company founder Steve Fambro being let go and the vehicle being pushed back to 2010 . The latest company email newsletter is out and it mentions three items: An Aptera 2e that was on display at the Reliant Football Stadium in Houston, Texas for the Texan/Titans game five days ago

Renault announces 2011 production of all-electric Kangoo van

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Renault , Europe/EU Kangoo be bop Z.E. - Click above for high-res image gallery Last week, Renault announced it will build the Twizy EV in Spain starting in 2011 and plug-in vehicle batteries and the Zoe Z.E

BP prepares output of new biofuels - algae diesel and butanol - starting in 2010

Filed under: Ethanol BP could become the first major energy company to start commercial scale production of cellulosic ethanol in 2010 if all goes according to plan.

REPORT: Panasonic will supply batteries for the Tesla Model S

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Green Daily Tesla Model S - Click above for high-res image gallery The battery pack powering the Tesla Model S down the road will reportedly be supplied by Panasonic. Greentech Media broke the news after talking to “sources close to the Japanese electronics maker.” Tesla had no comment. Earlier this week, Panasonic said it had developed a cheaper way to string small laptop batteries together to provide enough power for an automobile.

AltCar 2009: California Fuel Cell Partnership giving out free t-shirts w/winning slogan

Filed under: Hydrogen , Santa Monica Alt Car Expo Readers had a lot of fun with the California Fuel Cell Partnership’s t-shirt slogan earlier this year. The winning slogan wasn’t one of the snarky options - it’s ” Ahead of the Pact with a Fuel Cell Stack ” - and now the CaFCP is ready to start getting the word out about hydrogen via the ever-popular front-of-torso surface area.

Google algorithms tweaking electric car-smart grid communication

Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in Google’s interest in everything everywhere things green has apparently been deeper than we knew. The solar car ports , the $2.75 million investment in companies (like Aptera) and the whole RechargeIT program are old news. What’s thus far been under the radar is that Google is working on software to better integrate plug-in vehicles with the coming smart grid

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