Breakthrough Electric Vehicle http://weblog.xanga.com/mbatom2/650062121/break... Finally the electric vehicle industry is moving forward, and beginning to mass-produce very interesting vehicles. Currently this company is offering a sport utility vehicle and also a four-door pickup truck that is 100% electric powered and has a top speed of 95 mph. How about lithium ion batteries that fully charge in 10 minutes.
EPA makes it official: 2008 Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon hybrids get 21 mpg http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/epa-makes... In September, GM announced their official MPG numbers for the fresh 2008 Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon hybrids. The EPA has now posted the official management decision, and the numbers match what GM announced. The two great hybrids share official EPA estimates: The 2WD versions get 21 city, 22 high-road (21 combined) season the 4WD versions get 20 mpg in all those categories. You can discover EPA’s pages for the Tahoe hybrids here and the Yukon hybrids here.
Plug-in hybrids get lower mileage than traditional hybrids http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/plug-in-h... What beneficent of miles by gallon will you behold forward the EPA stickers of stopper-in hybrids like they approach with in the next few years? The miles by gallons for stopper-in hybrids will subsist rated lower than traditional hybrids! Why? dissimilar traditional hybrids, to get the added miles by gallon from a stopper-in mongrel, you hold to do something: stopper it in. If you don’t, the un-used part of the battery is just lifeless ponderousness and that instrument lower miles by gallon.stopper-in hybrids will probably leave part of the battery horizontal staying for you to freight it.
Chery has huge plans for hybrids in 2008 and beyond http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/chery-has... During a late international renewable power tribunal in Beijing, Liu Zhijia, Assistant universal overseer of Chery, reported at 2010 moiety of Chery’s vehicles will exist hybrids and moiety of those hybrids will race on clean fuels. Here is exactly what he reported:New power is a driving force for the sustainable development of auto activity, at 2010 more than fifty percent vehicles produced at Chery will exist equipped with cross systems, and moiety of those vehicles will exist powered at new power.Yin Tongyao, Chery’s chief executive has reported Chery “will extend annual sales of 1 million autos at 2010.” That would translate to annual sales of 500,000 hybrids a year from Chery.
Researchers develop “paper”ť battery that could see use in hybrids http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/researche... Researchers at upstate New Yorkвs Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a battery that very closely resembles paper. The new batteries are made of 90% cellulose ”” the same plant cells that goes into making news print, photocopier paper and books. "It's essentially a regular piece of paper, but it's made in a very intelligent way," said Professor Robert Linhardt, one of the co-authors of a paper outlining the discovery. According to CNN, the paper-thin batteries can be cut, rolled or molded and still function normally. "If you cut the battery in half it would be like cutting a piece of paper in half.
Honda president, CEO: plug-in hybrids “unnecessary,” don’t reduce emissions http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/honda-pre... While GM and Toyota have shown interest in making plug-in hybrids, Honda probably won’t do PHEVs if Takeo Fukui has anything to say about it. And Takeo probably does have something to say about it, considering he is Honda’s president and CEO.
Dubai to test out GM Hybrids for taxi and limo service http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/dubai-to-... Dubai may perch forward some of the biggest oil deposits in the creation, yet that doesn’t middle that they don’t want to create them latest a little longer forward using less locally. To that end, the Dubai Roads and convey sovereignty (RTA) will exist working attending GM to wince testing a flotilla of Chevy Tahoe and Malibu hybrids for employment like limos and taxis in the Persian Gulf emirate. For individual year starting in January, the hybrids will exist evaluated in service round Dubai to validate the durability for the application.
Fred Thompson: there are no hybrids in NASCAR http://auto-news-blog.com/in-the-news/fred-thom... Actor and presidential hopeful Fred Thompson made a joke about Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney that included a reference to hybrids and NASCAR. At chief, Fred made a joke equating Democrats to NASCAR (as they alone revolve left) and commented America was not prepared to “revolve athwart the keys” to the “most left-wing part of the left-wing faction.” Fred afterward had a suggestion for the good people of Northeastern Iowa;Now, whenever Rudy and Mitt advance downward here from fresh York and Massachusetts, I deficiency you to subsist nice to them.
