For the latest episode of our Green Overdrive video show we checked out Jeff McCabe’s awe-inspiring electric porsche. He stripped out 1,700 lbs from the car — from the gear box to the stock lights — before adding in the lithium ion batteries. Read More »
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Five of Japan’s heavyweights in the auto and power industries — Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi Motors, Fuji Heavy Industries and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the country’s largest utility — have joined forces to try and speed the adoption of a standard quick-charging system for electric vehicles. Each… Read More »
Startup Fisker Automotive’s claim on Tuesday that its upcoming plug-in hybrid sports car, the Fisker Karma, will get the equivalent of 67.2 miles per gallon sounds downright modest relative to the triple-digit estimates we’ve been hearing in recent weeks from General Motors (230 MPG for… Read More »
As a rule, neither utilities nor automotive standards groups tend to win many points for speed. We’ve written before about automakers and utilities ratcheting up efforts to hash out standards for how plug-in vehicles will interact with the grid. So far they’ve stopped short of… Read More »
Some standards for plug-in vehicles may have come sooner than we thought, but work still remains for standards that General Motors sees as “necessary for consumer acceptance of electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt,” according to the automaker’s latest FastLane blog post. We noted… Read More »
Open standards for the new networked vehicle may come sooner than we thought. The U.S. Council for Automotive Research, an alliance of Detroit’s Big Three, has just issued new standards for high-voltage wiring and connectors in hybrid and electric vehicles — a move that… Read More »
