Category: "Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV)"

Wolfgang Hatz talks about VW & Audi Electric vehicles

I met up with Wolfgang Hatz, Vice President of Powertrains for Volkswagen AG in San Francisco, CA.
We talked about gasoline and diesel engines and what the plans are for the [...]

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2011 Nissan Leaf details at the 2010 plug-in conference

Mark Perry, Nissan’s North American director of EV and Advanced Technology, was at the 2010 Plug-in conference in San Jose, CA.
We asked Perry why Nissan decided on a 100 mile [...]

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Mark Perry on the 2011 Nissan Leaf plugin electric vehicle

Mark Perry, Nissan’s North American director of EV and Advanced Technology, was at the 2010 Plug-in conference in San Jose, CA. We asked Perry why there were no vents for [...]

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Nancy Gioia, Ford, at the 2010 plug-conference

Nancy Lee Gioia is Ford Motor Company’s director of Global Electrification.
What does Ford have coming out before 2012?
What is their definition of electrification?
The Transit connect, the focus electric, a plug-in [...]

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Mary Nickerson, Toyota, at the 2010 Plug-in conference

Mary Nickerson, Toyota Motor Sales national external communications manager, discusses the Prius plug-in hybrid at the 2010 Plug-in conference.
Nickerson talks about the Electric vehicles Toyota will be bringing out, the [...]

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Lee Slezak, DOE, at the 2010 Plug-in conference

We sat down with Lee Slezak, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Manager-Advanced Vehicle Systems Simulation & Evaluation Office of Freedom Car and Vehicle Technologies at the 2010 Plug-in conference in [...]

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Carlos Tavares, Nissan, at the 2010 Plug-in conference

At the  2010 Plug‑In Conference in San Jose, Nissan’s executive vice-president of the Americas, Carlos Tavares, discussed plans for the LEAF roll-out.
What are Nissan’s plans for Electric Vehicles for the [...]

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Jeff Bliss talks about the 2010 Plug-in conference

Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index, hosted the nationally syndicated John Batchelor radio show. We talked about the 2010 plug-in conference, the price of the Chevy Volt and the difference between [...]

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Co-founder Tesla working for Volkswagen ERL

You can take a person’s job away from them, but you can’t take away their intelligence.
Tesla Motors was incorporated in Delaware on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc [...]

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TSLA – Tesla goes public with IPO, Larry Kudlow & John Batchelor

I think the electric car will come to market. I think it will come to market in all shapes and forms with all types of hybridization. The question is whether [...]

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