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EDTA 2008: EnerDel's Th!nk City
Click above for high-res gallery of the EnerDel Th!nk City In the back corner of the EDTA Conference last week was the EnerDel booth featuring the prototype Th!nk City with EnerDel's lithium battery pack. We chatted with Ener1 Chairman and CEO Charles Gassenheimer about the car, the battery packs and the future (Ener1 owns EnerDel). Gassenheimer told AutoblogGreen that 2009 is the year that EnerDel will turn the corner from a "science project" (as some call it) to a profitable company. EnerDel has received a purchase order for $34 million ... Read more →
EDTA 2008: Prototype Toyota plug-in Prius is locked, darn it Sebastian Blanco
click above image for a high-resolution gallery of the plug-in Prius At the EDTA Conference this week in DC, a nicely-decorated plug-in Prius sat in the Toyota booth. As you can see in this ...
EDTA 2008: Dueco Hybrid Power truck Sebastian Blanco
Click above image for high-res image gallery of the Dueco hybrid truck For big jobs, only a big hybrid will do. This is where the Dueco/Odyne plug-in hybrid (PHEV) trucks come in. These heavy duty ...
EDTA 2008: This is how ChargePoint's public electric car charging station will work Sebastian Blanco
Click above image to see a step-by-step gallery of the Chargepoint ystem Back in May, California-based Coulomb Technologies announced the "smartlet" public electric vehicle charging system. At ...
CalCars: US customers could prepay for plug-in hybrids at $10,000 each Sebastian Blanco
click above image for a high-res gallery of the Ford Escape PHEV At the EDTA Expo in DC this week, Felix Kramer of CalCars is circulating a proposal to a.) help the auto industry and b.) bring ...
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EDTA 2008: The View from Congress 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
It was very likely because of who the audience was, but all the panelists at today's "View from the Hill" seminar at the EDTA show agreed that electric drive is the way to go for the future of the American car. Congressional staffer JJ Brown, from Senator Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) office, Pat Bousliman, ...
EDTA 2008: GM shows off EcoCar Saturn Vue 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click above image for a high-resolution gallery of the GM EcoCar Last year, at the end of the Challenge X, GM announced the EcoCar competition for engineering students at universities in North America to rework a GM vehicle to be better and cleaner. The Challenge X teams worked on Chevrolet ...
EDTA 2008: Medium Speed Vehicle Coalition makes the case for 35 mph electric cars 7 months ago on AutoblogGreen
click above image for a high-resolution gallery of the Columbia Mega Right now, there are two types of electric passenger cars: low speed half-cars that appeal only to a small subset of drivers (see: Miles EV's current lineup, E-Z-Go golf carts, etc.) and highway speed vehicles that are either ...
EDTA Conference: Final Overview 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
All right, my last post on the EDTA Conference is now on the site. From here, I have to get ready for the entirely different experience of the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica this weekend. But, sine I spent the last few days writing about what was on display and what was said at the EDTA Conference ...
EDTA Conference: how to land the fat government grants for advanced vehicle research 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Sure, the government has spent a heap of money promoting hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells and other green car technologies. But it shouldn't come as a surprise to many that the federal government has a lot more to give away. One of the sessions at last week's EDTA conference was dedicated to find ...
EDTA Conference: Miles Automotive chairman previews 2007 LA Auto Show 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The chairman and owner of Miles Automotive, Miles Rubin, gave a presentation at the EDTA Conference that was refreshing because it wasn't a PowerPoint slideshow. I admit those slides are a great way to show graphs and charts to a large audience, but they're also pretty boring. When Rubin got up to ...
EDTA Conference: More details on UQM's electric Silverado 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The only new vehicle unveiled at the EDTA conference was the converted Silverado EV, which you probably read about on Tuesday. Since all I had to do was walk on over to the UQM booth for more information on this truck, I didn't miss my chance to learn more about how the Air Force, and now the Army, ...
EDTA Conference: Government solutions for electric drive vehicles 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Understanding the confluence of the electric drive industry and the U.S. government is at the heart of the EDTA Conference this week. During a working session on Wednesday, a half dozen speakers dissected ways governments of various jurisdictions (city, state and federal) can and do support ...
EDTA Conference: The East Coast GM plug-in hybrid announcement 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The media spotlight was on GM Chairman Rick Wagoner and the big announcement yesterday at the Los Angeles Auto Show that GM would offer a plug-in hybrid sometime in the next few years. Over at the EDTA Conference, where such an announcement would have been right at home, the news was delivered to ...
EDTA Conference: Secret effects of EESTOR ultracapacitor info from ZENN Motor CEO 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
At the end of the day yesterday, I snagged a few minutes with ZENN Motor Company CEO Ian Clifford by the EDTA Conference refreshments table and posed the question that Darin left in the comments when I asked what readers wanted to know more about: what's up with this secretive EESTOR ...
EDTA Conference: Screw the Prius. Combat hybrids are "not your mother's hybrid" 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Screw the Prius. Isn't that what the image above says to you? This is the first slide in the presentation Glen Bowling, general manager of Saft America's Space and Defense Division, gave at the EDTA conference yesterday. The session he was speaking at, "Defending our Future: Preparedness and ...
EDTA Conference: Tesla Motors ready to license battery tech to other companies 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
For the Tesla Roadster, the engineers at Tesla Motors decided to go with a batter pack made up of almost 7,000 lithium-ion cells to power the lightweight sports car. Some people approved (how can you say no to an EV that goes 0-60 in under four seconds?), and some people said the decision was a ...
EDTA Conference: revisiting Altair Nanotechnologies' NanoSafe batteries, Phoenix EV Truck 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
On Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Alan Gotcher of Altair Nanotechnologies broke down his company's batteries. Not physically, but verbally and with Powerpoint slides. In a room full of battery experts, Gotcher explained why his company's NanoSafe batteries are the top of the line. No one got up to call ...
EDTA Conference: kick off session is 99 percent unbelievably upbeat 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
EDTA president Brian Wynne officially opened this week's conference with a moment of silence for David Hermance, an engineer for Toyota who recently died while flying his plane off the coast of California. After that quiet moment, the message from Wynne and all of the other speakers at this ...
EDTA Conference: Q&A with Argonne Lab's Don Hillebrand 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
On Thursday, Don Hillebrand, director of the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, will give a talk at the EDTA Conference about the path to commercialization for plug-in hybrids (PHEV). But why wait until then to hear what he's got to say? You can click here and hear ...
UQM Technologies shows off electric chevy Silverado at EDTA Conference 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
At the Electric Drive Transportation Association conference in Washington, DC, UQM Technologies is showing off an all electric Chevy Silverado pickup truck. UQM develops components for alternative energy vehicles, such as brushless permanent magnet motors, generators and power electronic ...
EDTA Conference 2006: Ride and Drive photos 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Almost right on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington D.C. this morning, a small collection of electric vehicles sat attracting attention. A Honda FCX, a GEM, a new ZENN, GM's HydroGen-3, Hyundai's Tuscon FCEV and a few others. Joggers stopped to ask what the ranges of the fuel cell ...
Who loves the electric car? EDTA does, and their expo starts today 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
As we mentioned, the Electric Drive Transportation Association Conference and Exhibition kicks off today. Before things get started, I wanted to make sure I had a good overview of what the conference is all about. Since I'm learning something, it makes sense to me to also let you know what the deal ...
