Posts about Energy Car as of October 31, 2009

A Hybrid is like a Mermaid.Better Place, in collaboration with Nissan, are working on a smart grid and battery swap stations for electric cars. I can’s say it’s an analogy we’d ever considered before. But the quote that “A hybrid is like a mermaid: if you want a fish, you get a woman; if you want a woman, you get a fish.” is attributed to Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s CEO.

BYD’s Plug-in Cars Face Technical Hurdles ” width=”468″ height=”351″ /> The competition to give us with affordable plug in vehicles has a wild card. China with its BYD, the largest Chinese automaker , backed by investment guru Warren Buffet, makes a great combination of powerful forces – an enormous burgeoning low cost production, battery expertise, and domestic market – gives credence to the company’s plans to sell millions of hybrid-electric cars within just a few years.

For decades, automakers have been on a quest to make cars quieter: an auto that purrs, and glides almost silently in traffic. They have finally succeeded. Plug-in hybrid and electric cars , it turns out, not only reduce air pollution, they cut noise … Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 8:10 am and is filed under Ring. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Community News:Fisker Automotive’s purchase of the former GM Boxwood Road plant to build affordable, hybrid cars is not just about bringing 2,000 jobs back to Wilmington.These jobs are also green jobs, the way of the future, according to state officials.It is about restoring the American automotive industry back to the top of the world, in which the U.S. is a major exporter of cars, agreed Vice President Joe Biden and Fisker CEO Henrik Fisker at a Tuesday, Oct.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Autowereld.com: Mitsubishi PX-MiEV, originally uploaded by iflavour Continuing on with the Tokyo Motor Show, which opened to the public on October 21, 2009. Mitsubishi had a rather interesting [...]

  The nation that started the hybrid and electric car craze was back spruiking petrol at this year’s Tokyo motor show. Petrol-powered sports cars and ultra-efficient conventional engines were the order of the day at a distinctly subdued Tokyo show, which was minus every major overseas brand thanks to the global economic downturn. Only specialist sports car maker Lotus broke the Japanese stranglehold on what is usually one of the world’s most influential motor shows.