Electric Car Blogging

Time to leave it all behind
I’ve loved hating GM over the years. Even the Chevy Volt is worth hating sometimes. We’ve been hearing about it for years and its still almost years away. Furthermore, most Americans need fuel efficient solutions that cost less than ,000, but can still achieve 40 mpg in the city.
Where’s that [...] [...]

More about PR than sales?
The morning Joe show couldn’t stop gushing over Ford and the Ford Fusion hybrid when it interviewed Mark Fields, Ford Executive VP, this morning. However, when asked if the Fusion hybrid was representative of Ford’s future, Fields simply replied that the Fusion hybrid proved the Ford can make quality fuel efficient [...] [...]

No production cuts
CNBC had some coverage on OPEC’s decision not to cut oil demand. The consensus amongst the analysts was that oil prices will probably jump a little this summer, but .00 gas will probably be the average through 2009. However, the long term view is much higher prices – assuming the economy eventually gets [...] [...]

By the fall of 2008, it was hardly a secret that Chrysler was the weakest of the Detroit Three automakers. So its surprise unveiling of three prototype electric and hybrid vehicles was nothing less than a bombshell—as was [...] [...]