At next weeks Detroit show Toyota will debut a baby Prius, a tiny version of the Prius hybrid that comprises 75% of Toyota’s hybrid sales.
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Susan Kraemer writes at CleanTechnica, Earthtechling, and GreenProphet and has been published at Ecoseed, NRDC OnEarth, MatterNetwork, Celsius, EnergyNow and Scientific American.
As a former serial entrepreneur in product design she brings an innovator's perspective on inventing a carbon-constrained civilization: If necessity is the mother of invention: solving climate change is the mother of all necessities! As a lover of history and sci fi, she enjoys chronicling the strange future we are creating in these interesting times.
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Toyota to Become First Vertically Integrated EV Company With Solar Charging Stations
December 31, 2009 By 4 Comments
Pictured above is a solar charging station under development by Toyota. The company has plans to open the first of 21 in the Spring of 2010, signaling a move by Toyota to become a vertically integrated company. First, make the plug-in car. Then, build the charging station that it plugs in to. It’s comparable to [...]
Siemens to Test Six Minute Charging For EVs on 33% Wind Powered Grid
December 31, 2009 By 8 Comments
Sven Holthusen runs the EDISON project at Siemens’ Energy Sector in the Denmark branch of the international engineering giant. The EDISON project is working on raising charging power to as much as 300 kW so that batteries can be recharged on the go, in as little as six minutes. The idea is to replicate the [...]
EV Subsidy Boost to $30,000 For Heavy Trucks Will Benefit Smith Electric Vehicles
December 29, 2009 By 4 Comments
The Kohl-Hatch Heavy Duty Truck Hybrid Tax Credit Bill S. 2854, would extend federal tax credits to $30,000 per truck to purchasers of electric trucks in weight classes like Smith Electric Vehicles U.S 8 ton Edison.
Last Chance For a Half-Priced Tesla Ends Dec 31
December 25, 2009 By 14 Comments
Now might be a good time to hop in your jet and pop back to your ski vacation home in Colorado and pick up a surefire winner of a green Christmas stocking stuffer: a nice little 2009 Tesla Roadster that runs on electrons. Gasoline cars are just so 20th century. And Colorado…
More Than Half of Londoners Could Have Their Groceries Delivered by EV in 2010
December 17, 2009 By 7 Comments
Sainsbury’s has been testing a fleet of 20 Smith Electric Vehicles for delivering groceries for several years and has found that they get the job done. Now it’s just ordered 50 more of SEVs three and a half ton Edison van; making Sainsbury’s (at least for now) the world leader in EV grocery deliveries.
US Greenhouse Gases Dropped Nearly 5% in 2008
December 15, 2009 By 7 Comments
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has just released the figures comparing 2008 with the previous year and found that greenhouse gas emissions, from just the transportation sector, dropped 4.7% between 2007 and 2008. The EIA attributed the drop not just to the gas price rise of the summer of 2008, but also in the Fall [...]
Chevy Volt Investment in Detroit Now $700 Million
December 8, 2009 By 27 Comments
GM announced today that it is investing $336 million to fix up its Hamtramck assembly plant in Detroit, bringing to $700 million its total Detroit plant investment up to this point in making good on building the Volt extended-range electric car.
