Plug-in hybrid

The 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid is scheduled to make its market launch in Nov. of 2010. It's no wonder that engineers working on the Volt are putting in hours even on their days off. "They're testing, measuring and evaluating what is arguably the most important vehicle in General Moto...

In a little childish like video, General Motors took a shot at electric-vehicles saying that the charging the EV to its full capacity takes several hours after the battery is depleted. While GM admits electric-vehicles are cool, its says electric-vehicles with range extender, like the...

While there is a lot of hype around GM's Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle, GM is out to remind us that it is still making progress on its fuel-cell vehicle program. The Detroit automaker said that it is making significant developments towards building advanced hydrogen fuel-cell de...

By Mike(noreply@blogger.com) The plug-in hybrid technology built into the Volt is going to be very expensive for GM and the consumers who choose to buy it. The battery pack alone is supposedly going to cost 10 grand. The vehicle is expected to have a price tag around $40 thousand. By building a Volt-like Cadillac, you can ex...

By Drew Johnson Toyota may be readying a Prius sub-brand for its most fuel efficient offerings, but General Motors says it has no plans to launch a green Volt division. The Chevrolet Volt is expected to become the first mass-market plug-in hybrid vehicle when it hits the market late next year. Although Gen...

In what we think is a good decision, General Motors said that its other plug-in hybrid offerings will not have Volt branding on them to identify with the compact plug-in hybrid that will launch later next year. By contrast, Toyota is planning to make a family of hybrid vehicles that ...

By Dahcredyns(noreply@blogger.com) A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how one utility executive claimed that 3 - 5 plug-ins in one neighborhood could "overwhelm" the grid. Well, that's California. In other areas the situation is not so dire for plug-in hybrid vehicles.

By Mike Millikin The wave disc engine, a new implementation of wave rotor technology, was earlier developed by the Michigan State group in collaboration with researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology. About the size of a large cooking pot, the novel, hyper-efficient engine could replace cur...

By Mike Millikin The Axon Automotive PHEV. Click to enlarge. UK-based Axon Automotive, a spin-off from Cranfield University, previewed a pre-production plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of its lightweight city car at the Milton Keynes Science Festival. The Axon gasoline-powered city ca...

By Andrew Ganz Fisker Automotive and General Motors have confirmed yesterday’s reports that the California start-up will acquire the Detroit automaker’s Wilmington, Delaware, assembly plant. Fisker, which will pay $18 million for the plant, plans to build a $39,900 plug-in hybrid sedan called Pr...

By Andrew Ganz United States Vice President Joe Biden will reportedly make an announcement from his home state of Delaware tomorrow that General Motors’ Wilmington Assembly Plant, which until recently built the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice, will be acquired by Fisker for the production of a plug...

By Drew Johnson Suzuki is one of the few automakers still on board for the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, with the Japanese automaker planning to debut at least two environmentally friendly concepts at this month’s show. Suzuki will use the Tokyo show to unveil a plug-in hybrid version of its Swift and a hydrogen-...

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By Drew Johnson Fisker Automotive – maker of the Karma plug-in hybrid – announced on Tuesday that it has come to terms with the United States Department of Energy for a $528.7 million loan. The loan – part of the Department of Energy’s $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program – will b...

By Mike(noreply@blogger.com) Two electric motors for full-hybrid drive. Plug-in solution: convenient charging of the electric power system from a conventional power socket. Performance, fuel efficiency and emission management opening new dimensions in hybrid technology.

By Mike Millikin GM says it is committed to establishing a harmonized national program to improve fuel economy and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Click to enlarge.With CAFE’s renewed emphasis on fuel economy, from 26 mpg in 2010 to 35.5 mpg in 2016, GM’s short term answer is to get greater mileage out of exi...

By Mike Millikin Ford’s product approach to electrification. Currently, Ford has four full hybrids on the market. For the mid-term (2011-2020), Ford will increase its use of hybrid technology, and introduce plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV) on the market. For the long-...

By Mike Millikin While the fuel economy (FE) for combustible fueled vehicles (such as gasoline, diesel, compressed natural gas, or an ethanol blend) can easily be expressed in mpg, and fuel economy for an all-electric vehicle can be expressed in miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent (mpge), the arri...

 South Korea 2 lithium-ion battery maker in the world, released a plug-in hybrid model called the F3DM earlier this year. The vehicle can go 100 kilometers on a single charge. Japan's Mitsubishi will become the first maker in the world to mass produce electric cars ...

Market Wire (press release) Electrovaya's mission is to accelerate clean transportation as a commercial reality with its advanced power systems for all classes of zero-emission electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Electrovaya also offers battery-related ...

By Mike Millikin Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will begin leasing approximately 200 plug-in versions of its third-generation Prius (earlier post) equipped with lithium-ion battery packs in Japan starting at the end of this year. This will be the first time a lithium-ion battery... Toyota Motor Corpora...

Volt is already one of the 10 best cars for 2010 with high consumer anticipation. However, it will not be available until 2011. The Volt is priced much higher as an electric plug in hybrid car. It is estimated at $39000 but the car price might be much ... Politico - MIT Technology Review

By Mike(noreply@blogger.com) The powertrain is a hybrid diesel-electric.  A 11.3 kWh (8 kWh to power the car), which is expected to power the vehicle for 30 miles, at which point the diesel engine would take over.  The battery can be recharged in five hours from a standard wall socket. GTDi technology

By Mike Millikin Energy-optimized Li-ion batteries with thicker electrodes. A thick electrode in Li-ion cells could save up to $285/kWh, Bohn said. GM has verbally committed to apply this technology on the Chevy Volt energy storage system and to perform lab evaluations.

 DC Better than electric and hybrid vehicles are plug-in hybrid vehicles that can run on electricity as well as a variety of liquid fuels. But because such a transformation could require a generation to complete, why not move much more quickly to ...

CNET News  MA Enerdel uses lithium manganese oxide electrodes, the same type used in the batteries selected for GM's Volt plug-in hybrid. It was developed at Argonne National Laboratory with support from the US Advanced Battery Consortium (comprising Ford, GM, ...

By Kevin Bullis GM is defending its design for the Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle after a study out of Carnegie Mellon University slammed the design, saying that it's not economical. (Plug-ins are hybrids with batteries that can be recharged by plugging ...

By Mike Millikin When charged frequently (every 20 miles or less), using average US electricity, small capacity (i.e., lower all-electric range) plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are less expensive operationally and release fewer greenhouse gases (GHGs) than hybrid-electric (HEVs) or conv...

By Mike Millikin The Chrysler 200C EV. Click to enlarge. Chrysler unveiled the 200C EV Concept, the newest Chrysler ENVI electric-drive vehicle , at the North American International Auto Show. The 200C EV, based on a shortened version of Chrysler’s rear-wheel-drive platform, features... The Chrysler 200C...

By Chuck Squatriglia See Also: The Chevy Volt Will Save GM (And Get the Girl) The Volt Isn't a Prius. It Might Even Be Better. Exclusive: Inside the Design Process of the Volt 34,520 People and Counting Want a Volt Bob Lutz: Volt Is the U.S. Car Industry's Moon Shot

By Mike Millikin If a $40-per-ton CO2 price is present, then a 56% plug-in hybrid penetration results in an additional 132 TWh of coal generation, 75 TWh of nuclear, 14 TWh of wood biomass, and only 5 TWh of natural gas generation by 2030. Both coal and natural gas generation are lower with a $40-per-ton CO2 p...

Both hybrid buses look like conventional diesels, save for various stickers on the side boasting "Hybrid-Electric" and the logos of the project partners. A yellow tab on the plug-in hybrid that houses the outlet is the only visible give-away that the bus is different.

By dejz28 Volkswagen first launched its Golf TwinDrive plug-in hybrid in July 2008 using the company’s fifth-generation Golf as the basis, but, now that the sixth-generation Golf has been launched, VW has released an updated version TwinDrive prototype. The new Golf TwinDrive uses the Golf VI a...

By Chuck Squatriglia Another piece of the puzzle has fallen into place at Fisker Automotive, which says it will put a turbocharged GM engine under hood of the $80,000 Karma plug-in hybrid slated for production next year. The announcement that General Motors will... Photos by Fisker Automotive.

By James Warren unclear whether the GOP will convince itself that the panacea is a plug-in hybrid of a politician, perhaps one to actually entice green-leaning youthful consumers, as GM believes will the case with a plug-in hybrid of a car, the Volt, if the company survives until the

By Chuck Squatriglia The gas-electric version of Piaggio's funky but fun MP3 scooter uses a parallel hybrid system much like that in the Toyota Prius but advances the technology by adding an electrical cord. Although Toyota, General Motors and several other automakers are developing cars that can be charge...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) General Motors had been lobbying Congress for higher tax credits on the Volt, claiming that its large, advanced battery pack would push the price of the car beyond the reach of average consumers. In June, General Motors Vice Chairman of Global Product Development Bob Lutz said the Volt  w...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) The next generation of advanced batteries are called lithium-ion batteries, like the one we had installed in the plug-in Prius we are testing. Lithium Ion batteries are smaller and lighter for the same energy storage capacity and so lend themselves better to full electric and plug-in hy...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) Most plug-in hybrids are rated according to how many miles they can drive on electric power without using the gas engine. Some future models, such as the Chevrolet Volt and the Fisker Karma, can drive up to 40 miles (according to the manufacturers) without ever using the gas engine. Chrysle...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Honda hopes to aggressively compete with the Toyota Prius by unveiling its own affordable hybrid car that will hit markets in the relatively new future, according to Autopia: That price tag is pretty impressive, especially since I've been staring at Chevy Volt material for weeks -- you...

GM engineers work 'round the clock to bring their plug-in hybrid to market. Who paid for the Toyota Prius? Chris Basso of Carfax tells us what to look out for in today's used car market

Mercedes makes a bold political statement. What is it like to get 120 mpg? Greg Frenette, Chief Engineer for the Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid will tell us all about it

GM's Bob Lutz promises a working prototype of the Volt plug-in hybrid by Easter. What will Chrysler have at the Detroit auto show? Nissan is trying to figure out why the new Sentra is not selling. The $2,500 car will be inexpensive and clean

By Kevin Shult Filed under: Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, DaimlerChrysler (DCX), Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM)Toyota Motors (NYSE: TM) is launching the first U.S. tests of its plug-in hybrid technology in two converted Prius hybrids. The test cars will run...

By Melly Alazraki Less than a month after Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) announced a partnership with power utility Southern California Edison to test rechargeable hybrid vehicles,Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) now says it has developed a plug-in hybrid vehicle for public road tests in Japan and plans tests for t...

Most start-ups aim to make a profit. Not Benetech. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, find out what makes Benetech, and its CEO so special. Also, consider the immense technological challenge posed by plug-in hybrid vehicles. Do batteries exist that can handle their demands? For those l...

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) Automakers are taking differing approaches to reducing petroleum use, from building cars that run on E85 ethanol, to plug-in hybrid vehicles (short-range electric vehicles with a gas engine for longer trips), to fuel-cell electric vehicles that run on hydrogen produced from natura...

By Mike Millikin The hybrid battery system for a locomotive thus needs to provide both high energy and high power. GE’s hybrid prototype has a power/energy (P/E) ratio of about 2. By contrast, the Camry hybrid has a P/E ratio of 19, the GE/Orion V prototype hybrid transit bus a P/E ratio of about 5, and the Spri...

Hyundai gets ready for the luxury rear-drive market with its Genesis concept, just one of the many cars soon to be revealed at the New York International Auto Show. A big-dollar Ferrari meets a concrete barrier. Was it a case of really bad driving or an expensive ploy to promote a movie? And it...

Los Angles kicks off this seasons auto show circuit. We have all the stories, product introductions and new technology. Who killed the electric car? The Answer, no one. Two manufacturers show electrics at the L.A. Show GM Hybrid future. The General announces big plans for hybrid models across...

The new Toyota Tundra starts rolling off the assembly line deep in the heart of Truck Country Texas. What new technology makes this plant one of the most efficient ever? Ford announces that the Edge Crossover is delayed and also unveils a plan to boost the morale of its employees; we'll have...