GM pledges to make plug-in electric vehicle
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General Motors Corp. on Wednesday became the first automaker to commit to make a rechargeable hybrid vehicle, a move intended to distance the world's largest automaker from its harmful reputation for producing gas-guzzling trucks.
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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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Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet search engine, plans to fund development of technology for hybrid and electric cars. It also switched on a solar-panel installation at its headquarters.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is   asking its 5.1 million customers to petition automakers to   speed up development of plug-in electric-gasoline hybrid   vehicles, California's largest utility said on Friday.
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General Motors commits to a flex-fuel Hummer and a plug-in version of the Saturn Green Vue SUV. In Autopia.
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Plug-in electric cars could defeat Toyota's Prius and recharge Detroit. And Detroit desperately needs recharging. By John Gartner.
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(InfoWorld) - Google on Monday turned on the solar panels covering nearly all the roof space on its corporate campus and announced that its philanthropic arm plans to dole out over $10 million in grants to support hybrid cars. The announcements follow one last week made from Google's offices in Mountain View, California that launched an industry-wide initiative around improving the energy efficiency of PCs and servers. The solar panels, which make up the largest solar installation on a corporate campus in the U.S., produce 1.6 megawatts of energy, enough to supply about one-third of Google's energy use on the campus, said Jacquelline Fuller, a Google spokeswoman. In addition to the solar panels, Google has also unveiled a new employee parking garage where drivers can charge their plug-in cars, powering up their batteries using solar energy. Plug-ins are hybrid cars that users can drive in all-electric mode for around 30 miles before relying on the gas engine. Because automobile manufacturers aren't producing plug-ins, Google is converting hybrid cars into plug-ins. So far, it has converted four Toyota Prius and two Ford Escapes, Fuller said. On its RechargeIT Web site, Google is posting data on the performance of the cars. Eventually, the company plans to have 100 such plug-in cars that employees who take public transportation to the office will be able to use to run errands during their work days as part of a car-sharing program. The announcements about the changes to the corporate campus were part of the launch of the RechargeIT Initiative by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the company, on Monday. The plan includes several efforts mainly around plug-in cars, starting with grants already dispersed to a variety of groups. Google.org has given $200,000 each to the Brookings Institute in support of a conference next year about federal policy to promote plug-in vehicles and CalCars for the continuation of its educational initiatives about the cars. The Electrical Power Research Institute, Plug-In America, Rocky Mountain Institute, and a professor at the University of Delaware all have also received grants for their plug-in car projects. In addition, Google.org has earmarked $10 million for investments in companies and projects that support alternative transportation that reduces the use of fossil fuels and emissions. Later this summer the company plans to formally request proposals for the grant money. Last week, Google hinted at the impending launch of environmental initiatives when it hosted the introduction of theÂ Climate Savers Computing Initiative. That group, which includes a who's-who list of the technology industry such as Intel, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard, is setting a series of standards that will incrementally improve the efficiency of power cords used on PCs and servers through 2010.
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General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG are teaming up to develop fuel-saving hybrid technology for a range of vehicles that will help them compete with hybrid-vehicle leaders Toyota Motor Corp.
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General Motors Corp. on Wednesday said it plans to make a plug-in electric hybrid version of the Saturn Vue Green Line, which will have double the fuel efficiency of any current sport utility vehicle.
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The prospects for hybrid electric vehicles were bolstered Monday when General Motors and DaimlerChrysler, two automakers long skeptical about hybrids, said they would develop them by working together.
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Blog: Gm awards two battery contract for the Chevy Volt's E-flex power train
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Wired News grills Bob Lutz and other top General Motors executives including about when we can expect the highly-anticipated flex-fuel Volt, and what it will look like.
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General Motors Corp  said on Thursday it formed a new organization to speed up the implementation of advanced battery technology for hybrid and electric vehicles.
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While plug-in hybrids and hydrogen  fuel cells are likely one day to help cut U.S. gasoline  consumption, major fuel savings can be achieved now if  automakers put existing technologies to work under one hood.
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Detroit - General Motors and rival DaimlerChrysler announced on Monday that they will join forces to work on hybrid technologies, as they play catch-up to their Japanese rivals.
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Stung by criticism that it conspired to kill the electric car, General Motors Corp.  is preparing to detail its commitment to new fuel-saving technologies, including new electric vehicles, according to people familiar with the automaker's plans.
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Boston-Power raises $45 million and hatches plans to make batteries for plug-in hybrids.