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Archive for April, 2007

Toyota Surpasses GM in Worldwide Sales in 2007

April 24th, 2007 | Posted in: Financial, Latest News with 5 Comments

Well, it finally happened. Japanese carmaker Toyota sold more vehicles worldwide this year so far than General Motors, supplanting it as the Number 1 automaker in the world. Toyota sold 2.35 million vehicles as compared to GM’s 2.26 million. Remember GM has been in the top position for 75 years, so this is [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 5 Comments

Hydrogen Volt

April 21st, 2007 | Posted in: Electric Motor, Latest News, Politics with 7 Comments

GM rolled out its new Volt concept variant in Shanghaii yesterday. As mentioned, the vehicle is different than the predecessor concept in that instead of a combustion engine linked to the battery, the car uses a hydrogen fuel cell, which can both charge the battery and drive the engine.
Because of the hydrogen fuel cell, the [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 7 Comments

New Version of Volt to House Hydrogen Fuel Cell

April 19th, 2007 | Posted in: Electric Motor, Latest News with 3 Comments

As we predicted in our previous post, the new version of the Volt to be displayed at the Shanghai Auto show will demonstrate how the E-flex system can be configured with a hydrogen fuel cell as opposed to the internal combusiton engine.
This concept illustrates the “Flex” portion of E-flex. Since it is the battery-powered [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 3 Comments

GM’s Bob Lutz Speaks with Bloggers at NYIAS

April 14th, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News with 1 Comment

GM’s Bob Lutz spoke with a group of bloggers at the New York International Auto Show, including Matt Buchanan of Gizmodo, Jen Chung and Tien Mao of the Gothamist, Rebecca Carter of ecorazzi, Brandy Schaffels of AskPatty, Michael d’Estries of GroovyGreen, Mark Durham of Wired/Autopia and Dan Vaughan of Concept Carz. Terrific very detailed video [...]

Posted by: majicmattyla with 1 Comment

Build Your Own Plug-in Electric Car

April 11th, 2007 | Posted in: Battery, Electric Motor, Environment with 46 Comments

Sure, wed all like to drive off in an all-new, dealership-supported, warrantied, and well-made GM Volt. But there are folks who dont want to wait until 2010. Indeed the do-it-yourself movement is rapidly underway. As we’ve discussed previously there are a variety of ways to “grow your own” electric car.
There are several [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 46 Comments

How Electric Cars Can Power the Home

April 10th, 2007 | Posted in: Battery, Latest News with 3 Comments

The issue of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been raised before when discussing electric vehicles. This refers to the intriguing concept of using a fully-charged electric car’s batteries to give power back to the grid, when the grid needs it and the car doesn’t.
An example given is the scenario of a blackout, ocurring after the homeowner’s [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 3 Comments

A123’s Li-ion Batteries Power World’s Fastest Electric Vehicle

April 6th, 2007 | Posted in: Battery, Latest News with 2 Comments

The Killacycle broke the record for the fastest electric vehicle of all time on April 3rd and 4th. The bike was able to do a quarter-mile in 8.1 seconds, reaching a speed of 156 miles per hour, and can do 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds.
The bike is powered by 990 lithium ion cells [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 2 Comments

New Version of the Volt

April 3rd, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News with 1 Comment

Reports began circulating yesterday indicating that GM plans to unveil a new “iteration” of the Volt at the Shanghai auto show on April 22. These reports seem a bit over the top mainly because there really is no working model of the Volt yet. Some possibilities are that the vehicle will have a [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 1 Comment

Interview With Tony Posawatz

April 1st, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News with 7 Comments

Good new interview with GM Vehicle Line Director. It can be listened to here. Nothing really new, but continues to support GMs position that the Volt will be released.  He discusses the parallel process between vehicle and battery, as well as safety management concerns.

Posted by: Lyle with 7 Comments

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