Andy Grove Says Intel Should Go From Chips to Li Car Batteries - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
Dec 12, 2008
Former Intel Corp. chairman Andrew Grove is pushing the world's biggest maker of microprocessors to consider a new venture -- becoming a manufacturer of advanced batteries for plug-in electric cars. Mr. Grove, who retired in 2005 but still advises Intel, is urging the current chief executive, Paul Otellini, to steer th ... Continue reading
Malcolm Bricklin Details Innovative EV Plan for Detroit Three - VIDEO ENHANCED
Dec 12, 2008
Malcolm Bricklin, CEO and Founder of Visionary Vehicles Inc., today called on the Detroit 3 to join him in moving the industry forward by shifting 20% of manufacturing capacity to Electric Vehicles by 2012 and 80% by 2020. In the wake of todayâs bleak automotive earnings reports, Bricklin said that current conditi ... Continue reading
HEELS ON WHEELS: TOP 10 GREEN AUTO TIPS & TRICKS FOR WOMEN
Dec 12, 2008
HEELS ON WHEELS By Katrina Ramser San Francisco Bureau The Auto Channel What exactly does it mean to go green with autos? The term 'green' casts many different shades. One could be referring to using cleaner fuels or car products such as soap for your current car. Green is also a code word for frugal or cost-efficient, ... Continue reading
Dec 12, 2008
World premiere at the Geneva International Motor Show (March 5th thru March 15th 2009): with the "iChange" the Swiss designers of Rinspeed present a "1-2-3-seater" powered by a 130kw-electric motor. The concept car's striking body structure adapts via "electronic trick-tail" to the number of passengers: while the ... Continue reading
Advanced Battery Announces Letter of Intent to Acquire EV Maker Wuxi Angell
Dec 12, 2008
NEW YORK and HARBIN, China, Dec. 11, 2008; Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. , a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of rechargeable Polymer Lithium-Ion (PLI) batteries, today announced it has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire 55% of Wuxi Angell Autocycle Co. Ltd. (``Wuxi Angell''). The Letter of ... Continue reading
Dec 11, 2008
SANTA MONICA, Calif. December 11, 2008; Miles Electric Vehicles, an American electric vehicle manufacturer based in California, announced today that Kenneth Baker, former GM Electric Vehicle Division program Manager, and John R. Wallace, former Ford Director of Environmental Vehicles, have joined its Board of Advisors. ... Continue reading
Steve Schneider, CEO of ZAP, is the Featured Guest in an Audio Interview at SmallCapVoice.com
Dec 11, 2008
AUSTIN, Texas--SmallCapVoice.com, Inc. today announced that a new audio interview featuring Steve Schneider, CEO of Electric car pioneer ZAP (OTC BB: ZAAP.OB) is now available at SmallCapVoice.com. The interview can be heard here at http://www.smallcapvoice.com/zaap/zaap-12-5-08.php. About ZAP ZAP has been a leader in ... Continue reading
LG Chem and STMicroelectronics Drive to Improve Battery Technologies for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Dec 11, 2008
Hi, Please find below the text of an announcement released today, December 11, 2008. LG Chem and STMicroelectronics Drive to Improve Battery Technologies for Hybrid Electric Vehicles Geneva, December 11, 2008 ââ¬â STMicroelectronics , one of the worldââ¬â¢s leading semiconductor suppliers, and LG ... Continue reading
Dec 11, 2008
General Motors Europe and Iberdrola have signed an agreement to jointly perform a feasibility study which, ultimately, will analyze the technical requirements of a recharging infrastructure for the integrated marketing and viability of plug-in electric cars. The agreement was signed by Javier Villalba, Director of Spai ... Continue reading
NYT Op-Ed Columnist Friedman: While Detroit Slept, A Better Place Was Born
Dec 10, 2008
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN December 9, 2008 As I think about our bailing out Detroit, I canât help but reflect on what, in my view, is the most important rule of business in todayâs integrated and digitized global market, where knowledge and innovation tools are so widely distributed. Itâs this: Whatever can ... Continue reading
Floyd Associates' Analysis of Electric Vehicles and the Future of the Auto Industry
Dec 9, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA Dec 9, 2008; With the recent drop in the price of oil, new doubts have been cast over the future of hybrid and electric vehicles. Many manufacturers and designers of electric vehicles have faced technical and financial challenges in the past few months. Such challenges combined with large capital invest ... Continue reading
Dec 9, 2008
100MPG EV Maker Bright Automotive Tells Congress that ... Continue reading
Japan Car Execs Say Technology Race Still Wide Open
Dec 9, 2008
TOKYO December 9, 2008; Chang-Ran Kim writing for Reuters reported that as Detroit's Big Three automakers flirt with collapse, punished for years of over-dependence on gas-guzzlers, the future of the motor industry would seem to belong to energy conscious rivals such as Japan's Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co Ltd. ... Continue reading
Spirt Avert AG Has Revealed the First Pictures of the Drivable Prototype of Mindset.
Dec 9, 2008
The development steps towards start of production of mindset cars are on track. During a presentation to selected representatives of the European electricity industry on November 12, 2008, the prototype drove at Petersberg in Bonn for the first time. ... Continue reading
Dec 9, 2008
TOKYO--Better Place, the worldâs leading mobility operator, today announced that it is joining Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., maker of Subaru automobiles, and other Japanese carmakers in the first Ministry of Environment, electric-vehicle (EV) project in Japan. Better Place, the only foreign company participating, wa ... Continue reading
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