Archive for October 13th, 2008
On Friday, media organizations started running stories about a possible merger of General Motors and Chrysler. We wondered what such a merger would mean for the future of domestic hybrid and plug-in cars—so we asked a panel of auto industry analysts. Here’s what they had to say. How much can Detroit’s financial woes be blamed on a reliance on gas-guzzlers and dragging heels on hybrids?“More than half. I predicted billion in losses per year from having wrong products.” The Playmaker’s Standard, a Washington, DC-based communications firm, released an analysis on Friday of General Motors’ chess-like strategy for trying to gain a footing in the hybrid car market. The Playmaker’s Standard used its “classification framework of 25 irreducibly unique stratagems or plays” to map GM’s high-stakes tit-for-tat match against critics, including skeptical environmental groups, financial analysts, and industry watchers.
Oct
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2008
Green news harvest: ‘Black silicon’ solar cellsPosted by: admin in Electric Car News, Electric Vehicle, General Motors, Hybrids, Tesla, hybrid
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Oct
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2008
Wave and tidal power looks for its footingPosted by: admin in Electric Car News, Electric Vehicle, General Motors, Hybrids, Tesla, hybridCAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The fledgling ocean energy industry is awash in ideas for making electricity from moving water but it is still reaching for a toehold in the commercial world. Greentech Media last week released a summary of an ocean energy report that forecasts great potential for wave and tidal energy. …
Oct
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2008
MIT: Dirty coal to blame for China pollutionPosted by: admin in Electric Car News, Electric Vehicle, General Motors, Hybrids, Tesla, hybrid
In a rare independent study of China’s energy sector, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that the problem with China’s coal power generation is not that its power plants lack cleaner technology. The emissions are definitely higher than they … Originally posted at Sinobyte: China and technology
Oct
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2008
AutoblogGreen for 10.13.08Posted by: admin in Electric Car News, Electric Vehicle, General Motors, Hybrids, Tesla, hybridFiled under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green click to visit AutoblogGreen
While there are some very early rumors of an 80-mile battery being worked on for a future-generation Volt model, it’s still an open question if the domestic automakers can survive long enough to make to a second- or third-gen PHEV.
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