Electric Car Blogging

According to Fox News, the US Department of Energy threw away nearly $1 billion in loans to Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors—two Calif.-based [...] [...]

Compact converter systems
Hanna Plesko, a doctoral student at Power Electronic Systems Laboratory, might have invented a way to help bring down the costs of hybrid vehicles.
By integrating the power electronics and the electric motor in a way where several functions can be performed simultaneously, a number of important components can be shared, resulting in fewer [...] [...]

Move over hybrid
If you were an early adopter of hybrid technology, then you might have received a sticker that allows hybrids with single occupants to use the carpool lane.
Well, your sticker will soon be meaningless.
That program is ending in California according to reports coming out of Sacramento. Although I don’t have the final details, either [...] [...]

All about the lithium
South Korean state-run Korea Resources Corporation (KORES) is working hard in Bolivia to gain access to the country’s large supplies of lithium, as are many other companies.
With hybrid cars and other electric vehicles on a path to capture as much as 25 percent of the world’s automarket by 2025, Bolivian lithium appears [...] [...]

In the mixed bag of hybrid incentives designed to encourage car shoppers to buy greener cars, access to carpool lanes while driving solo has been one more push in the right direction. But California legislators are now [...] [...]

A plug-in Prius
Many hybrid owners dream of converting their hybrid cars into plug-in hybrid vehicles, but few have actually made their dreams come true.
Have you converted your hybrid into a plug-in hybrid?

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2010 Toyota Prius

Toyota is in the midst of its worst downturn since the company was founded in 1937—but it’s raising the price of the 2010 Toyota [...] [...]