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AFVI 2008: A few final thoughts on green moves in Sin City, with Wendell Berry
I covered the AFVI Expo last week and that trip was my first visit to Las Vegas. I've heard the stories, the advertising campaign that tries to sell Sin City as, well, Sin City that takes your credit card. What interested me the most, though, was how my environmentalist mind would react to being in a city that, quite honestly, celebrates excess and waste. I didn't expect to feel comfortable in an oasis of VIP come-ons and bright lights surrounded by a harsh desert. I arrived in town around noon and, during my lunch at a quite reasonable buffet ... Read more →
AutoblogGreen Podcast #22 Dan Roth
For Episode #22 of the AutoblogGreen podcast, Sam and Sebastian recap the AVFI show in Las Vegas, and enter into a discussion focusing on diesel. Still on the diesel tip, Sam talks excitedly about the ...
AVFI 2008: T. Boone Pickens lays the future of oil and alternatives on the line Sebastian Blanco
Andrew Littlefair (left) and T. Boone Pickens The majority of the attendees at the AFVI Expo's Fleet Day breakfast keynote seemed quite pleased to listen to T. Boone Pickens (just like last year). ...
American electric car companies prefer Project Fastr Blastr to Project Better Place Domenick Yoney
Project Better Place has been making lots of headlines with their plan to create a battery swapping and charging infrastructure in different countries. At the recently held Alternative Fuels and ...
AFVI 2008: Fleet Day keynote session - Rahal racing, consumer shifts and more Sebastian Blanco
Michael Williams is a bold man. It's not because he wears a bow tie and cowboy boots; it's because he will publicly say he's a good friend of the President. Not many people around who will admit to ...
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AFVI 2008: Ride and Drive video from Las Vegas 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
There weren't a lot of astoundingly cool vehicles to drive at the AFVI Expo Ride and Drive earlier this week. Still, throw a handful of alternative-fueled cars, trucks and CUVs in a Las Vegas parking lot, and I'll check it out. As you can see in the video I made of the event, Bosch was heavily ...
AFVI 2008: Meeting the ZeroTruck face-to-face 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge We first heard about the ZeroTruck, a Class 4 delivery truck powered by nothing but good old electrons, towards the end of April. Electrorides, Inc. brought the prototype ZeroTruck to the AFVI Expo in Las Vegas this week, trying to get fleet operators to sign up for an upcoming ...
AFVI 2008: Miles, GEM and Phoenix share EV product line-ups 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge This week, at the AFVI Expo, I moderated a panel on the roll-out of electric vehicle products from Miles EV, Phoenix Motorcars and GEM. The representatives were Bryon Bliss, vice president of sales and marketing for Phoenix, Jeff Boyd, COO of Miles, and Richard Kaspar, GEM's ...
AFVI 2008: Green Gears' Pat Cadam talks Hymotion, plug-in Prius conversions 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Pat Cadam started Pat's Garage in San Francisco about 25 years ago and worked exclusively on Honda and Acura vehicles at first. In the 1990s, Pat and his mechanics found themselves in an unusual position because they enjoyed working on some of the new-fangled Honda EVs while other people were ...
AFVI 2008: request for music for video soundtrack 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
So, I'm editing together a short video of the Ride and Drive portion of the AFVI Expo that ended yesterday in Las Vegas. While we have (and often use) a piece of music we crafted ourselves as an intro and bed for our podcasts and videos, it really wasn't designed to be played in its entirety. And, ...
AVFI 2008: 360 Electrica will clean your clock (or street) 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge Sometimes, when you're walking around the showroom floor, you see a vehicle that you didn't expect. At the AFVI Expo in Las Vegas this week, the most unusual ride is the 360 Electrica. What we have here is a 100 percent battery-powered street sweeper. The specs of this little ...
AFVI 2008: Dymac EVs enter the market with low-complexity, lower-cost models 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge The Neighborhood Electric Vehicle market is not exactly huge, and there are already some established players involved: Miles, Zenn, GEM. So, what's Dymac going to do to enter this space? The answer is, well, simple. Dymac had something like a coming out event at the AFVI Expo in ...
AVFI 2008: Sterling's new (and first) natural gas tractor 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge It was hard to miss the colorfully-decorated natural gas truck that Sterling Truck Corporation brought to the AFVI Show in Las Vegas this week. This is a huge cab that Sterling is calling the Set-Back 113, and the company claims it can save fleet operators up to six grand a year in ...
AFVI 2008: A cringing lunch, courtesy of Honda 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
I've done you a favor. As part of the American Honda Lunch program yesterday at the AFVI Expo, comedian Matt Hovde was part of the entertainment. Before he took to the stage, I was kind of excited. I mean, he's part of Second City, and they're legends in the comedy business. So, what's my favor to ...
AVFI 2008: Sitting down for a moment with GM's Larry Burns 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
When Larry Burns, GM's vice president of R&D and planning, spoke at the opening session of the AFVI expo yesterday morning, he stayed on target to bring GM's message to the conference. Before he stepped onto the stage, we had a chance to sit down with him and ask a few question One thing I ...
AFVI 2008: we present to you the lifesize Monopoly Prius 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge Remember the big deal it was when the "Here & Now" version of Monopoly came out and there was a Prius pawn inside? Well, there's Monopoly Prius standing guard at the entry way to the AFVI expo hall here in Las Vegas this week. The hybrid is totally decked out in Monopoly money ...
AFVI 2008: Need some propane for your pony? IMPCO shows off bi-fuel 'Stang 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enlarge A Mustang with a "Propane" license plate will get my attention. As I walked by the Impco Technologies booth at the AFVI show in Las Vegas this week, I couldn't help but stop to find out more. Sadly, the sticker on the side of the Mustang that read "Plug and Drive" didn't mean what ...
AFVI 2008: Opening speakers talk geopolitics, oil shocks and GM's lineup 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Amy Myers Jaffe Another year, another AFVI convention. At last year's show, which took place in Anaheim, California, we learned about Connaught's Type-D Hybrid, the Naro concept vehicle, and took a Smart Brabus diesel for a quick spin. The 2008 Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference ...
ZeroTruck will be unveiled at AFVI expo in Las Vegas 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Electrorides Inc., a company based in California, will debut the ZeroTruck, an all-electric medium duty truck, at the 2008 AFVI National Conference and Expo in Las Vegas in mid-May. The ZeroTruck can go 100 miles per charge using an EIG lithium polymer battery pack and a UQM brushless permanent ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tony Martindale of Connaught Motor Company and the Type-D Hybrid 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
In the third AutoblogGreen Podcast (which you can listen to here), we heard from Tony Martindale about the Connaught Type D hybrid. You can read more on the Type D-H here and read what Martindale has to say below. Enjoy. ABG: I'm here with Tony Martindale of Connaught Motor Company and we are going ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A with Hugh Kemp about the Naro concept vehicle 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
As part of the AutoblogGreen Podcast number 3 (which you can listen to here), we spoke with Hugh Kemp, who is working on the Naro concept car. We introduced you to the Naro at the end of March, and this transcript of our interview should fill in a few more gaps in what we know about this unique ...
AFVI Show: Cute kids tell us about green cars (VIDEO) 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
OK, so we heard from more than just cute kids, but watch the end of this video and you'll see why it's the kids that are highlighted in the headline. As the AFVI show was winding down and the expo floor was opened to the public, I found people without badges and asked them what they thought ...
AFVI Show: All the details you'd ever want - videos, powerpoints, and more 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Even though AutoblogGreen brought you lots of coverage from the Alternative Fuels and Vehicles expo and conference in Anaheim last week, with only one reporter on the ground there was no way to bring you everything. Thanks to the A/V people the conference hired, and the openness that some of the ...
AFVI Show: Video of our quick drive in the Brabus-converted Smart fortwo 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
While in Anaheim last week covering the AFVI show, we got a chance to take the 2006 Smart Fortwo Brabus diesel conversion out for a spin. Robert Bosch Co. imported the vehicle down from Canada to demonstrate Bosch's diesel fuel injection technology but there's no implication they'll bring the ...
What's the buzz on alternative fuel vehicles? Buzzmetrics knows 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
AFVI just sent out a post-show email that tries to describe the current state of affairs in the buzz surrounding alternative fuels and vehicles. The key to the email is the graph above, which pinpoints the amount of "buzz" nine different types of alternative fuels had at any time between January 1, ...
ABG Poll for fun: are you a "cashed up greenie"? 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
During one of the AFVI conference panels I went to, a woman from Australia asked the panel members (whose companies made a lot of the electric cars we report on) why their cars were so ugly. I'm just speaking frankly, she said, and continued that the only people who the cars would appeal to are ...
AFVI Show: All about electric cars with Dynasty, GEM, Zap!, ZENN and Phoenix 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Dynasty, GEM, Zap!, ZENN, Phoenix. Certain readers in our audience will see this list and think, "What about Tesla? And Miles?" I'm not sure why those last two companies were not part of the electric vehicle panel at AFVI on Tuesday, but they weren't. Miles even had a presence at the show (Tesla ...
AFVI Show: Video of all your favorite green cars in the Ride & Drive 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The Alternative Fuels & Vehicles expo featured a lot of cars running on future technologies - hybrids, pure electric, clean diesel, hydrogen, E85. This short video captures the essence of these cars, including the ethanol Hummer, as they tooled around the Anaheim Conference Center area. You ...
AVFI Show: ABG Video of the Phoenix SUT 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Phoenix_Motorcars_AVFI_Show_Video_of_Phoenix_SUT_test_drive'; One of the vehicles available at the Ride & Drive here in Anaheim was the Phoenix SUT, and there's no way we were going to pass up a chance to test this thing out, even if it was only ...
AFVI Show: Miles Automotive on the $30,000 Javlon XS500 all-electric sedan 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
We brought you the audio version of this interview yesterday, but if you didn't have time to listen to Miles Automotive's Chris Buehrer talk about the upcoming Javlon XS500, here's our talk written down (with the "ums" and all that edited out). Enjoy ABG: You know we usually keep up with what ...
AFVI Show: Diesel anti-idling technologies save money while you sleep 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
We're not unfamiliar with the trouble with emissions spewing out of idling diesel vehicles here on AutoblogGreen, but I personally don't know much about what's being done on the technological side to halt this oh-so-common pollution source. So yesterday morning I headed over to the Rest Assured: ...
AFVI Show: Tuesday morning general session with Ed Begley, Jr and maple syrup 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The Tuesday morning general session started with the news of Monday's Supreme Court decision, which obviously directly affected the conference participants. Here are a few highlights from the rest of what was talked about. Ed Begley, Jr. gave a wide-ranging talk (promoting just about every green ...
AFVI Show: Zap! Chairman with his solar all-electric truck 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
I stopped by the Zap! booth on the AFVI expo floor and asked what was new. Not too much, they told me (aside from Larry Hagman visiting at the time), but it did give me a chance to go check out the new solar-powered mini-truck with Chairman and co-founder Gary Starr. Starr wanted to make sure our ...
AFVI Show: Luncheon speech by Lives per Gallon author Terry Tamminen 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The joke with which Terry Tamminen started his Monday luncheon speech was eerily similar to his talk in Santa Monica last December – although the names were changed (you can compare the audio clip below with our recording of December's event here). Tamminen is an effective public speaker, ...
AFVI Show: Expo display vehicles - Chevy Sequel, E85 Interceptor, Zap! ATV, T3 and more 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
That there is Larry Hagman. Mr. J.R. Ewing himself. He's a big green car advocate now, and he wandered the AFVI expo hall Monday afternoon looking over the cars and signing autographs for folks. Some of the cars he checked out were from ZENN and Zap! Other cars on the floor are the new police-duty ...
AFVI Show: Tell me, is the Miles Javlon $30,000 all-electric sedan for real? 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Remember the presentation that Miles Rubin gave at the EDTA last November on the semi-secretive car his company, Miles Automotive, would bring to the 2007 LA Auto Show? (If not, read about it here). It's time to update the story. I certainly didn't expect to find any new alternative fueled vehicles ...
