Less than three years: that’s the wait time left for a plug-in hybrid from Toyota at commercial scale, according to reports this weekend from Japan’s Nikkei (h/t Reuters). The news that Toyota plans to start churning out at least 20,000 to 30,000 plug-in hybrids in 2012 […] Read more »
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It’s official: Tesla Motors has won approval for $465 million in low-interest direct loans from the Department of Energy under the delayed Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program. Tesla, which now sells a $109,000 electric sports car, has just been awarded what the DOE calls “conditional loan […] Read more »
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Major League Baseball has added live video streams of baseball games to its $9.99 iPhone app, starting today. The games can be viewed over Wi-Fi or via the iPhone’s 3G connection — unlike the Sling video-streaming app, which only works over Wi-Fi because of a clause […] Read more »
After a bit of good news last week from electric vehicle startup Tesla — German automaker Daimler invested into it a “double-digit million-dollar sum for about a 10 percent stake” — this week brought more bad news: The company is recalling 345 of its Roadsters made […] Read more »
Automakers received yet another push this morning to accelerate efforts to clean up their fleets, with the unveiling of tough, new limits for tailpipe emissions set to take effect in 2012. If the big automakers were interested in bringing startups with clean vehicle technology into the […] Read more »
Daimler AG has invested a “double-digit million-dollar sum for about a 10 percent stake” in Tesla Motors as part of a new strategic partnership between the German automaker and the Silicon Valley electric sports car startup. Speaking at a press conference in Stuttgart, Germany this morning, […] Read more »
Daimler AG has a new electric vehicle partnership in the works, and it could represent a critical deal for startup Tesla Motors — for better or worse. The Germany-based automaker and the Silicon Valley electric sports car startup joined forces last year with an agreement for […] Read more »
Neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) have won over the more passionate electric car fanatics, but for many drivers they seem impractical, unsafe, and somewhat less-than-thrilling to drive. But a growing number of automakers, including General Motors subsidiary Vauxhall, Ford, Norway’s Think Global, Toyota, Daimler and others are […] Read more »
The media blitz for the New York International Auto Show doesn’t kick into high gear until tomorrow, but automakers are itching to get their new toys out ahead of time. Among the concept cars slated to debut at the show this week is a Toyota Scion […] Read more »
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For anyone who’s ever borrowed a car through Zipcar or San Francisco’s City CarShare program, and then grumbled over the fact that the meter runs until you return it to Point A, when you want to stay at Point B (been there, done that), prepare for […] Read more »
Less than six months after Michigan lost one high-profile R&D center for alternative-fuel vehicles (that of Tesla Motors, shuttered last fall), the state has wooed another: Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz Hybrid subsidiary plans to build a $9.9 million R&D facility in southeast Michigan for propulsion systems that […] Read more »
Panasonic to Cut 15,000 Jobs, or 5 Percent of Its Workforce; facing tough times the consumer electronics giant will also close 27 manufacturing sites (12 percent of its worldwide production facilities). (The Wall Street Journal) Time Warner Expanding Metered Broadband; details are few, but more cities […] Read more »
When Toyota Prius sales sank more than 40 percent last May compared with the same month a year earlier, the automaker blamed it on a global battery shortage. But while the 7 percent drop in fiscal 2009 sales Toyota forecast this week has less to do […] Read more »
It’s official: Tesla Motors plans to supply battery packs and chargers for the 1,000 electric Smart cars Daimler AG has slated for release in the U.S. in 2010. Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk announced the deal today at the Detroit Auto Show, confirming rumors that […] Read more »
Luxury automaker Daimler of Germany together with Italy’s largest electricity producer, Enel, plan to roll out more than 100 electric vehicles and 400 charging stations for testing in Rome, Milan and Pisa by 2010. Executives from the companies agreed last week that Daimler will supply and […] Read more »
Electric-Vehicle Makers Struggle, Seek Aid Along With Detroit: Representatives from the EV industry sprang to action in Washington, D.C. last week before executives from Detroit’s Big Three arrived, calling for subsidized loans, expanded tax credits, a national push for development of advanced vehicle batteries, and more government purchases of electric cars. Read more »
While the price of gas has been dropping from $4.00 down towards $3.00 in recent weeks, I still pay attention to which stations offer lower prices when I go to fillup. I’ve found differences of up to 20 cents per gallon between stations that are just […] Read more »
This year’s Paris Auto Show is turning out to be the most electrifying one yet, with car makers from all over the world debuting their electric vehicles. The offerings range from far-flung concept cars to very real production models. Solar roofs are a popular theme and […] Read more »
Berlin’s autobahn will be getting a charge from the “e-mobility Berlin” program Daimler AG officially unveiled today. The automaker is working with German utility RWE to put more than 100 electric cars on the city’s roads by 2010. Under terms of the joint venture, Daimler will […] Read more »
Tesla Motors will be charging up Daimler’s electric Smart ForTwo cars with its own lithium-ion battery technology, the German edition of the Financial Times reports (hat tip Autoblog Green). According to the report Tesla will supply the batteries for the 150 cars Daimler plans to deploy […] Read more »
Earlier this month word got out that Silicon Valley electric vehicle startup Tesla has been working on some sort of deal with Germany’s Daimler. This weekend Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche told a German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that it has much bigger plans in store: Daimler […] Read more »
If Tesla execs organized their sock drawers we’d write about it. Here’s the latest, according to a report on Fox Business news (via AutoblogGreen and Just-Auto), and it’s much juicier than OCD employees. Tesla’s rock star chairman, Elon Musk, says that the Silicon Valley electric vehicle […] Read more »
Clients like to communicate in real time. They want what they want right now and they don’t care that, as a web worker, you might be torn in 20 directions and performing amazing mental contortions and juggling acts to keep everything straight. Read more »
Today Apple released another free minor update for users of OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Depending on which version you’re coming from, it weighs in at somewhere in the 200 to 400MB range, which is pretty frightening for something that’s mostly fixes rather than new features. It […] Read more »
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It will be a little tougher (but not impossible) to get XP installed on an Asus Eee PC with 2G of flash storage and the less expensive models are now available. Earlier this week, a number of retailers showed inventory of this portable sub-notebook with a […] Read more »
If you live in a hermetically-sealed, media-free bubble, then you might not be aware that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) made good on its threat and went on strike this morning. We’ve followed the story extensively, but here’s a quick roundup of other coverage currently […] Read more »
Blake Ross, one of the more high profile members of the Firefox team, has been quietly working on a new start up for a while. He has been successful in keep the wraps on his new startup, Parakey, but now it seems is close to revealing […] Read more »
Verizon Wireless and partner Microsoft are set to announce the launch of a new online music store, VCAST Music, at CES. The new service will go live January 16th and offer music downloads a la iTunes. Verizon intends for the new service to extend their current […] Read more »
The citizens of Lafayette, Louisiana vote today to approve the funds needed to build a city-wide fiber optic network for high-speed internet connectivity. The city won a legal challenge by the two private sector companies that serve Lafayette earlier and if the voters choose to approve […] Read more »
Andy analyzes AT&T’s VoIP marketing and moves, and explains why they are the only one who can bring VoIP to the masses by their unique brand positioning. He feels this would help company leap past Vonage which has plans to spend between $50-and-$70 million on advertising/marketing. Read more »
Fred Wilson says, “My friend and VOIP pioneer Tom Evslin has been saying for years that VOIP will be ubiquitous by 2010. I think he is right about that, but possibly it will be even sooner.” Not likely Fred: less than a million people are using […] Read more »
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