What holds back electric cars? Car dealers, says VC
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Those dealer contracts have to be broken or skirted for electric cars to get to the mass market.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 16--If California hopes to clean up its air and remain a leader in the fight against global warming. It will need to develop new fuels and vehicles to complement the laws it has enacted.
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Despite burgeoning demand for hybrids, carmakers remain conservative about manufacturing them. So, if you want one, be prepared to wait. By John Gartner.
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This past Sunday, my report on the rebirth of the electric car aired on âCBS News Sunday Morning.â You can see it here. CBS gave me a juicy long time for the segmentâbut the truth is, there was enough good material to fill a miniseries. Like the interview with auto-industry superstar Bob Lutz, now a top [...].
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General Motors Corp. would need to power almost all new models with gasoline-electric hybrid systems to meet the most restrictive fuel economy standards proposed by US lawmakers, vice chairman Robert Lutz said yesterday.
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Russia, other nations in east are latest destinations for OEMs, suppliers. Facing tighter margins and continuous needs to be closer to market, automobile manufacturers in Europe continue to seek out low-cost ...
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In the face of GM's swift time table for the Chevy Volt, rival automaker says it has good reason to move more slowly on its own plug-in electric car.
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What a hit movie really tells us about innovation It's almost two years since the debut of Chris Paine's documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? The movie has been a success in US theatres and often comprises one half of a double bill with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. But what the success of the movie tells us is more alarming than any conspiracy it purports to unveil: a disdain for engineering, for technological innovation, and most of all a disdain for us, the consumers.â¦
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DETROIT -- The cash rebates and financing deals that Detroit's Big Three automakers have used to drive business in recent years are diminishing the value of their vehicles in the eyes of consumers, a new quarterly survey of customer satisfaction indicates.
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A recovery in the economy later this year will keep U.S. vehicle sales from plunging as deeply as the most bearish forecasts suggest, according to an outlook released on Sunday by the group representing U.S. auto dealers.
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Tesla made the electric car fancy. Now Fisker wants to do the same for the plug-in hybrid.
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Hybrids, ethanol, and batteries are on the mind of General Motors' Rick Wagoner at CES 2008.
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Nissan Motor Co. plans to develop and start selling subcompact electric cars powered by self-developed lithium-ion batteries in about three years, the Nihon Keizai (Nikkei) business daily reported on Sunday.
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Venture capitalists at the Venture West Summit are fundamentally optimistic about the potential for clean-tech and green-tech investments. But their comments suggest investors are focusing on more-narrowly defined niche markets -- and that a shakeout may be in the works.
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The company may be ready for EU CO2 emissions-cap regulations, but says its customers prefer upscale models with bigger engines. Those V-8s will be a challenge to cap. In Autopia.
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Two start-ups are coming that will lease, rather than sell batteries to consumers. Isn't this what big, bad GM did?
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Blog: Phoenix Motorcars, the company that wants to bring you all-electric SUVs and trucks,won't be coming out with their cars this year after all.