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REPORT: Toyota cancels European diesel project with Isuzu {Autoblog Green}
Jul 8th 2009 5:50PM "This generation of hybrids are cheaper to produce than complex Diesel with more moving parts."
Not for the most efficient (full) hybrids.
The retail price difference between (comparable trim) gasser Jetta and the Jetta TDi is less than the cost of the traction battery alone for the Prius.
HSD may be a technically elegant system, but it is not cheap.
Sprint first to offer a 99-cent netbook, but is it worth it? {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2009 1:12PM Grab a phone from your carrier that can tether via USB or Bluetooth and just turn on/off data on a month-to-month basis (forget getting locked into a data contact)
Efficient air conditioning could potentially save billions of gallons of gas {Autoblog Green}
Jul 3rd 2009 12:33PM And electric-powered instead of belt-driven compressors.
Priming the comment pump: Hydrogen advocate calls out pro-plug-in ABG readers [w/POLL] {Autoblog Green}
Jul 2nd 2009 8:17PM There is still no evidence hydrogen fuel cells will ever come down enough in price to be able to power light passenger vehicles.
Fuel cells themselves are breathtakingly expensive.
Despite the billions poured into the development of fuel cells, they remain still at least an order of magnitude more expensive than any lithium-based battery pack.
The supporting hardware also remains prohibitively expensive - e.g., how does the carbon-fiber tank alone ever get cheap enough to put in a mass-market vehicle?
Cost is always a valid concern, and can't be hand-waved away simply by magically invoking the words "mass production"
Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70! {Autoblog Green}
Jul 2nd 2009 7:20PM Once CARB backed off on the "pure ZEV" requirement no major auto manufacturer wanted to produce a pure EV anymore.
Simply no demand for RAV4-EV size batteries.
No Second Jackson Will {TMZ}
Jul 1st 2009 11:18PM The will is just fine.
It is a standard "pour-over" will to dump assets into a trust.
The details of the trust remain private.
If mom really is a beneficiary, I bet she's an income-only beneficiary due to her age, health, and the fact she and dad went bankrupt only a few years before MJ created these final estate plans.
Michelle Duggar: The Ultimate Reality TV Mom's Parenting Tips {ParentDish}
Jun 27th 2009 2:39PM Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the Duggars get a huge amount of private (not public) charity.
Mostly in-kind (food, building materials for their current large home, etc.)
Public record searches indicate they own some modest residential rental property, that at best might bring in a few thousand dollars per month, and they own a used car lot.
But the above are not sufficient to support 18 or 20 people.
I'm sure it's more OK with everone that these are private "sponsorships", but the reality is that if the private deals dry up the Duggars will probably be on public assistance, i.e. they are not now self-supporting and haven't been for some time.
GAO says truly clean plug-in hybrids need to be powered by alternatives to coal plants {Autoblog Green}
Jun 26th 2009 6:42PM Commonly available flooded lead-acid batteries store energy from the solar panels on your roof just fine.
There are plenty of grid-tie inverters that have a battery backup option.
Priming the comment pump: Hydrogen advocate calls out pro-plug-in ABG readers [w/POLL] {Autoblog Green}
Jun 25th 2009 10:13PM "mass production" doesn't magically make things cheaper.
exactly how does one achieve a hundred-fold decrease in the cost of a PEM fuel cell and its supporting hardware, given that those are much more complex compared to a $500/kWh (GM's figure for the Volt) lithium battery pack?
Huh? Detroit News columnist criticizes Tesla loan, but not exactly in a brilliant manner {Autoblog Green}
Jun 25th 2009 9:37PM Tesla still has no path to producing a mass-market (tens of thousands per year) electric vehicle.
Given what they spent to make a few hundred Roadsters essentially by hand, $500 million won't suffice for a true production run of the Model S.
