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The Motley Fool
March 6, 2011
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Alice in EVLand: Cracks in the Looking Glass Congress can't make our energy problems go away. The EV dream may be beautiful, but for the next decade EV investments will be ugly as sin.   |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2011
John Petersen |
Distinguishing HEV Efficiency From Plug-In-Vehicle Waste The problem with plug-ins. Regardless of chemistry, advanced batteries are terrible things to waste because they require prodigious inputs of scarce mineral resources and are difficult to recycle economically. |
IndustryWeek
April 21, 2010
Steve Minter |
Charged Up About Electric Cars Household names and newcomers alike are racing to develop cars that offer freedom from the gas pump. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Take This Car And PLUG IT Customer-modified hybrids can be propelled exclusively by their electric motors for, in some cases, more than 30 kilometers without their gasoline engines ever turning on. The factory-built Prius can run on electricity only, but for just a kilometer or two. |
National Defense
February 2009
Frodl & Manoyan |
Converting U.S. Car Park to Hybrids Should Be Priority One Reducing personal vehicle demand for gasoline is the quickest and most effective way to cut our consumption of crude oil, and by extension, make our nation more secure. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2010
Matthew Argersinger |
Automakers Must Know: Green Means Green If the public wants small cars, then the auto industry is going to give it to them. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
John Voelcker |
How Green Is My Plug-In? The carbon impact of the millions of electric vehicles soon to hit the road will depend on the grids that supply them. |
Outside
April 2007
Amanda Griscom Little |
Detroit Takes Charge Electric cars are poised to make a comeback and this time they might stick around for good. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2, 2008
John Stewart |
Toyota, Experts See Plug-in Car Trouble: Electric Reality Check With lithium-ion technology finally advanced enough for the world to resurrect the electric car by late 2009, why is the world's No. 1 automaker suddenly questioning its viability? |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Surprise ... Electric Vehicles Are Late to the Party A123 is seeing delays from electric car manufacturers' hurting third-quarter results. |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Richard McGill Murphy |
Eclectic Electrics With the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf hitting showrooms this year, the mass-produced electric car - a century-old dream - becomes a reality. So what are designers dreaming up next? |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Peter Fairley |
California to Rule On Fate of EVs Hybrids are going mainstream, major automakers are once again engineering battery EVs, and start-ups such as Tesla Motors and Phoenix are bringing them to market. Can California's ambitious and controversial zero-emissions vehicle mandate help? |
IndustryWeek
December 10, 2008
Andrew Fellon |
Viewpoint -- What to Expect from Obama's Coming Energy Initiatives The U.S. will see higher prices in electricity and fossil fuels as producers struggle to adjust to new laws and standards. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Tesla Motors: The Next Auto Giant in the Making? Tesla leads the electric car revolution. |
Scientific American
October 2007
Mark Alpert |
Saving Gas and Lives Can the U.S. improve fuel economy without sacrificing safety? |
Fast Company
April 2012
Jon Gertner |
Why Tesla Motors Is Betting On The Model S Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company - it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Demand's Role in Obama's Energy Plan Obama's plan to reduce imports isn't the pipe dream some people think it is. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2011
Travis Hoium |
6 Stocks to Combat Rising Oil Prices As oil prices rise it's time to look at ways to profit off alternative fuels. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2010
John Petersen |
Toyota's Straight Talk On Plug-in Vehicles Toyota helps consumers separate hype from reality. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Lawrence Ulrich |
The Greening of the Supercar Ferraris, just like Fords, must now conform to environmental regulations |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
John Voelcker |
Will Washington Kick-start the U.S. Battery Biz? The United States will need a domestic lithium-ion manufacturing industry to meet its plug-in goals |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Some Electric Vehicles Are Already Dead in the Water Mass-market electric vehicles are big flops compared to high-end competitors. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Where's My Chevette? The economic argument against investing in oil companies suggests that high gasoline prices will cause demand to fall and prices at the pump to recede. But automakers know better and are giving the consumer just what they want -- style and muscle. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2011
John Rosevear |
Why Is Ford Happy About 54.5 Miles Per Gallon? An onerous burden for the automakers? Not quite. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2009
Toby Shute |
Cash In on These Transportation Trends From biofuels to batteries, there are plenty of interesting options out there. |
BusinessWeek
December 29, 2010
Eric Pooley |
Electric Cars Get Charged for Battle The first serious contenders for a mass-scale electric car are on the road. They've already changed GM and Nissan; will they change the world? |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2010
Travis Hoium |
We're Focusing on the Wrong Electric-Vehicle Market Scooters and commercial vehicles are where progress is really being made. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2011
John Rosevear |
Why Ford Will Pay This $30 Billion Bill New fuel-economy standards will be expensive -- but they'll cost some automakers more than others. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
John Voelcker |
Plug-ins and Hybrids and Diesels, Oh My! Two automotive conferences show the impact of public policy on core vehicle designs |
The Motley Fool
February 10, 2011
Eric Dutram |
3 Possible ETF Winners From a Shift in Hybrid Tax Credits Making hybrid vehicles more affordable could give a boost to these ETFs. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008 |
Inside the Future of Electric Cars, Hydrogen and Next-Gen Biofuels The market has never looked better for alternative fuels and electric vehicles. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
David Schneider |
Plug-in Vehicles Proliferate Full battery-electric and hybrid-electric plug-in vehicles will start hitting the streets in significant numbers later this year |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009 |
Why the Chevy Volt Doesn't Add Up Plug-in hybrids with big batteries, like the Chevy Volt, may never save consumers any money. |
Popular Mechanics
May 28, 2009
Frank Weber |
Can GM Make Electric Vehicles Relevant? Analysis Electric vehicles aren't simply for niche markets; they are the future of a sustainable global automotive industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries for Hybrid Cars Hybrid cars need to travel farther in electric-only mode, and that means lithium-ion battery technologies have a lot riding on them. |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004
David Welch |
California Rules, Detroit Quakes U.S. carmakers are balking at proposed regs that would cut carbon dioxide emissions. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2012
Alex Planes |
America's Sad Love Affair With the Electric Car The biggest letdown is still under the hood. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2010
John Rosevear |
Autos Weekly: Toyota's Return to Arrogance? Toyota's efforts at world domination resume. Plus: Good news for GM, and the coming battery glut. |
Popular Mechanics
December 18, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Can Battery Suppliers Keep Up With an Electric Car Revolution? If the United States dramatically increases the nation's hybrid and electric car fleet, battery suppliers may find themselves struggling to keep up with the demand. |
Popular Mechanics
February 6, 2008
Chuck Tannert |
Inside Plug-in Car Tech's Race to Production (and Top 10 Rides) Big automakers and promising startups say electric vehicles are coming as soon as next year, but there's a lot of work to be done by scientists before lithium-ion batteries are ready for mainstream hybrids. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Why Detroit Doesn't Mind the New CAFE Standards For once, American automakers aren't complaining. |
BusinessWeek
July 16, 2009
Rowley & Hall |
A Future Shock for Electric Cars? This summer marks a milestone in green motoring. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Motor will soon start selling its $48,000 electric minicar, the i-MiEV, beating out Subaru, Nissan Motor, and China's BYD Auto, all of which have designs on the electric-car market. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Battery Makers Take a Back Seat at Auto Show Makers of electric cars are looking elsewhere for their power. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries On The Way For Hybrids In just one year, the whens and wheres of lithium battery packs for hybrid and electric cars have come into much sharper focus |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Automakers Still Don't Get It Car companies take the cash, but skip the innovation. |
Popular Mechanics
April 20, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
The Footprint of Air Pressure: CO 2 Comparison Tata Motors announced plans to build an super-green air-powered car. But is using the grid to compress air any more efficient than a hybrid's gas-electric power train or a regular combustible engines? Here are the calculations. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Mike Allen |
How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Before we can debate national energy policy -- or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles -- we need to know how these things stack up in the real world. So we crunched the numbers on alternative fuels. |
Popular Mechanics
June 9, 2009
Mike Allen |
How 35.5 MPG Will Change Our Vehicles and the Way We Drive: Analysis The EPA's role in fuel economy |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars Electric cars are back: Tesla 2007 Roadster... Honda FCX/Concept... GMC 2008 Yukon Two-Mode Hybrid... Fiat: 2007 Siena Tetrafuel... Volkswagen 2007 Golf GT TSI... Chrysler 2007 Sebring... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2011
Evan Niu |
GM and LG Renew Their Vows Two familiar partners get together for a new agreement. |
