Apparently unaware of the oxymoron created when using the term “bureaucrat” and “efficient” in the same sentence, California’s Energy Commission has dedicated a new facility in Pasadena, California as the home of the California Hybrid, Efficient and Advanced Truck Research Center (CalHEAT, how catchy) to conduct research into newer meeting-extension technologies, faster paper shuffling efforts, [...]
Add this one to the “Bureaucrats Gone Wild” file. Apparently Tesla Motors, which makes an all-electric (meaning it has a battery and motors, no engine at all and thus no fuel burning) car, is in violation of California’s Clean Air Act because they never submitted their emissions-free car to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) [...]
Image via Wikipedia General Motors, for all its hype about the Volt (which won’t run on ethanol), has announced that E85 (ethanol, up to 85%) is the “best near-term” alternative fuel solution. This comes from their FastLane blog on which it’s touted that GM will be moving forward with an “ambitious” expansion of its flex-fuel [...]
The largest new car dealership chain in the U.S., AutoNation, has informed its dealerships that they are to sell the Chevy Volt at manufacturer’s retail ($41,000) or face immediate termination. AutoNation has 27 dealerships selling Chevrolets nationally. This comes after reports that a lot of dealerships appear to be planning to make up for huge [...]
Government Motors has been busy lately, getting themselves in the news (for good or ill) as they pimp their new government-funded car that will save the world – the Volt. Meanwhile, with dealerships apparently planning to make up for two years of losses by jacking the price on one Volt sale, GM wants to keep [...]
The New York Times ran an opinion story by Edward Niedermeyer, known to us in the EV blogosphere as The Truth About Cars. In that article, Edward runs down the weak economics behind the Chevrolet Volt (a 4-seater and, many conclude, #EpicFail) that can’t even rival its all-electric competition in the Nissan Leaf – which [...]
Image via Wikipedia This argument has surfaced yet again and yet again it’s going the rounds on the blogosphere. When these doom-and-gloom stories popped up at almost exactly this time last year, I fell for them. The problem is, this same basic scary report pops up and the same stupid arguments are pitched by the [...]
The Government Accounting Office, which is (supposedly) non-partisan and may or may not have a stalwart track record in accurate accounting,* has released some information that is a little less than reassuring to those banking on the auto industry’s bailout billions being recouped. The GAO interviewed a bunch of experts in the financial and auto [...]
Friends and fellows, you have before you an example of how our current kleptocracy works and why corporatism will fail to bring you any green cars or loan paybacks from bailout queens. The example is a comparison between recent news from Government Motors (GM) and Ford Motor Co. Last year, General Motors was the recipient [...]
Edmunds is reporting that Government Motors says they’ve paid off the last of their bailout money back to the governments of the U.S. and Canada. Apparently, GM’s CEO Ed Whitacre made the announcement along with a lot of other stuff at a press event on April 21. The company also plans to invest a lot [...]
Remember the big media circus that General Motors made out of the Chevy Volt getting 230 miles to the gallon and being near-zero emissions? It was a big part of the early marketing bonanza that GM made out of the Volt before they became Government Motors and released that horrid Volt Dancers video. Myself and [...]
It looks like the much-overhyped Chevy Volt is going to sell at least 100 units, thanks to Government Motors’ buddies in the White House. President Obama has promised to purchase a hundred of the first new plug-in electric vehicles to roll off an American assembly line. That will probably be the Volt, which begins production [...]
General Motors, along with partners Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Segway, has released a concept car (the word is used loosely) platform called the Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V). The platform has three vehicle concepts, all based on the same drivetrain and chassis. No word yet on how much bialout money was used to pay for [...]
The electric vehicle world has its own little lingo surrounding it. Many times, articles and information on electrics or alt-fuel vehicles will be riddled with jargon that many who aren’t insiders in this clique won’t understand. In the same way a football player is probably not going to understand most of what’s being said at [...]
Most people know about the Toyota recalls for faulty brakes and accelerator pedals. It’s been all over the news, the CEO of Toyota had to appear before Congress to explain his company’s (supposed) lack of response to this “serious safety concern” and whatever else. Meanwhile, Government Motors has recalled 1.3 million vehicles for a potentially [...]
For some reason, this headline is “news.” Probably only to GM-Volt.com, who are all about the Chevy Volt (the Opel Ampera is the Volt’s European sibling). If you didn’t see anything in the headline above to make you wonder why this is news, then… well, I guess I’ll have to spell it out. I was [...]
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