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Tesla CEO vows to personally refund deposits if there’s an "Armageddon scenario"

Filed under: Car Buying, Coupes, Hybrids/Alternative, Sports/GTs, Green, Earnings/Financials, Celebrities Here’s Tesla’s Elon Musk, speaking in March (and just published in Car and Driver): Even in the worst case of an Armageddon scenario, I’ll personally refund people [their money] if need be. While the U.S. federal government needs to step in and guarantee the warranties for [...] [...]

Chrysler selects A123Systems for EV vehicles, first one to appear in 2010

Chrysler's family of all-electric and extended range electric vehicles (Credit: Chrysler) Chrysler announced that it selected lithium ion battery manufacturer A123Systems to produce the energy storage systems for Chrysler’s first-generation ENVI extended-range electric vehicles and all-electric vehicles. Chrysler’s plans to produce Dodge Circuit EV, Jeep Wrangler … Originally posted at The Car Tech blog [...]

Chrysler and A123: Great Green PR but……

A Chrysler EV at the LA auto show I’m out of shape. Yet, yesterday I finished a concrete patio that required thousands of pounds of ready mix – hand mixed 90# bag by 90# bag. So, if I’m more cynical that usual, it’s only because I’m hurting. Still, when I read about the Chrysler / A123 partnership on [...] [...]

More luxury hybrids to the rescue!

Just what America needs now GM will be bringing a few new hybrid vehicles to market soon. Great news, right? That’s if you can overcome the sticker shock for these hybrids. For instance the GMC Yukon Denali hybrid will begin at almost ,000. The new Cadillac Escalade hybrid platinum edition begins at more than ,000. ,000 for the [...] [...]