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VIDEO: Danny's Contentment rides in the Tango, loves it! {Autoblog Green}
Sep 18th 2008 12:06AM
Looks like San Carlos / Redwood City
And Highway 101 to Mountain View and Google.
Cool.
Heavy-duty Jeep J8 now available everywhere but here {Autoblog}
Sep 8th 2008 11:03PM
Lame decision on Chrysler's part.
This could be positioned as a less expensive American version of the Land Rover Defender 90.
McCain's energy plan: let the market decide {Autoblog Green}
Sep 5th 2008 11:26PM
Germany already testing a small scale coal power plant that will capture and store CO2.
Here's an article about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7584151.stm
Some politicians want to mandate 100% flex fuel capability {Autoblog Green}
Sep 4th 2008 12:09AM
There are 4 public E85 pumps in California, the largest car market in the US.
http://e85vehicles.com/e85-california.htm
Mandating E85 capability for all cars won't help build pumps.
Why would Shell, Arco, Chevron, etc. sell E85 if they don't control it ? Selling E85 will cut into their profits.
E85 is a product that competes with the gasoline that they control and sell.
They don't control the farms that grow the crops used to make E85 and they don't control the plants that make E85.
Only a law that forces gas stations to build E85 pumps and sell E85 will work.
Even if such a law passes, taxpayers will probably pay the bill for these rich oil companies to build E85 pumps.
VIDEO: Charlie Rose talks to Wagoner, Volt price in the mid to upper 30s {Autoblog Green}
Aug 21st 2008 12:31AM
Anyone remember when the 1st gen Prius first came to the US ?
It was subsidized by Toyota in order to keep the price within reason.
http://www.cartalk.com/content/testdrives/Reviews/toyota-prius-2001.html
Why does GM need to rely on the US government to subsidize the Volt ?
Shed a tear. Tesla Roadster crashed in San Francisco {Autoblog Green}
Jul 29th 2008 10:26PM
I drove by Tesla's HQ in San Carlos this afternoon.
There were about 6 Teslas being prepared in their back lot.
Blue, Yellow, Black and several Dark Green were the colors.
Lexus Lanes coming to California's Bay Area {Autoblog}
Jul 28th 2008 11:55PM
I live in the Bay Area. The carpool lanes here are never empty. What is the MTC blabbing about ?
If there are carpool lanes that are never used or severly underutilized, then the lane should revert back to a normal lane that anyone can use.
Pulling out the carpool signs from the underuitilized lanes is cheaper than building a $3.7 billion high tech system that will require a lot of maintenance.
Also, how much of that collected money is actually going to be used for the roads ?
Anyone wanna bet that a lot of the money will be used for something else instead of repairing/building roads, etc. ?
All roads better be perfect and spotless clean if this passes.
Ex-Chrysler VP moves west to head Tesla engineering {Autoblog}
Jul 9th 2008 11:13PM
They should have tried to hire someone from Honda or Toyota or maybe even one of the German car companies. Honda and Toyota have factories that are far, far more flexible than any Detroit 3 factory.
I also doubt anyone from the upper ranks of the old Detroit 3 will fit into a small company where you'll literally need to get your hands dirty on a daily basis.
By the way, just how hard can it be to procure components and set up a simple assembly line considering that Tesla is a small volume outfit ?
Scan the required components. Send out requests for bids to several of the top auto component suppliers or to smaller upstarts who are hungry for business. Get pricing, component production and shipping schedules. Find a second source for all components., etc., etc., etc.....
If these components aren't too exotic or too complicated to make, sourcing them from local Silicon Valley companies might be a simpler solution rather than extending the supply chain all the way out to Detroit or farther.
Exxon Mobil exiting gas station business {Autoblog}
Jun 13th 2008 10:03PM
Lame.
Please don't feel sorry for Exxon.
From what I heard on the local news, they will sell their stations, but the buyer has to keep the Exxon name on the station and the buyer also has to buy their gas directly from Exxon.
It's pretty much what all the other large gas companies are already doing.
Only a moron would buy a gas station with such stipulations.
A visual history of the BBC "TV Detector" van {Autoblog}
Jun 10th 2008 1:44AM
According to this article, there is a way to see what someone is looking at on their computer screen.
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html
The BBC TV detector van might actually be real.
