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Original post by 08hybridok

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, Green Daily, Aptera

AutoblogGreen has had our share of stories on Aptera and the company’s upcoming 300 mph space-like vehicle. But we understand that more information is just a click away for everyone, and so we thought you’d like to know about an interview Gizmag posted with the Aptera Co-Founder & CEO, Steve Fambro (AutoblogGreen spoke with Fambro in October). ABG reader Sayyad pointed this out for us, and says it “is worth the read, and makes a lot more sense than Aptera’s website.” He’s not kidding about the website. The last time I went to Aptera’s site, I about poked my eyes out.

Anyway, there’s a lot of interesting stuff in the interview. I like the way Fambro explains why he got excited to build his own high-mpg car company in the first place: it was when he saw SpaceShipOne.

I was amazed that twenty people in three years could develop a spacecraft, the aircraft to carry it up at altitude, test it and put it on the edge of space. If twenty people can do that then surely three or four people can build this car and take it to some form of completion ready for manufacture.

There’s more at Gizmag.

[Source: Gizmag, h/t to Sayyad]

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Original post by Sebastian Blanco

Original post by nicst47

Azure Dynamics Corp., which moved its headquarters from Toronto to Oak Park in October, announced Thursday that its hybrid electric powertrain has successfully completed a durability test at a U.S. bus-testing facility in Altoona, Pa.

Original post by george_douglas@nrel.gov (George Douglas)

WHAT: Ford delivers first Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid to Southern California Edison at Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS 23), a key milestone in a unique partnership between the automaker and the utility. Join us for demonstration drives and executive interview opportunities.

Original post by george_douglas@nrel.gov (George Douglas)

(RTTNews) - Fortis (FORSY.PK, FORSF.PK) announced that it has priced and successfully placed EUR 3.0 billion of Convertible And Subordinated Hybrid Equity-linked Securities or “CASHES″.

Original post by george_douglas@nrel.gov (George Douglas)

Filed under: Hybrid, Saturn, Green Daily, North America

Even Mexican President Felipe Calderon is excited about the Saturn Vue hybrid. Today, Calderon announced the start of production of the vehicle in Mexico, Automotive News reports. The plant is in Ramos Arizpe and has an annual capacity of 6,500 hybrid Vues. GM employees have been making standard Vues there since July. These SUVs will be exported north to the US and Canada. GM is still undecided on whether to offer the Vue Green Line in the country where it is produced. Read more about the 2008 Vue hybrid at the link below.

Related:

• 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line hits the street at $24,795 and 32 mpg HWY!

[Source: Stephen Downer / Automotive News]

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Original post by Sebastian Blanco

As part of its plan to finance the acquisition of certain ABN AMRO assets, Fortis announces today that it has priced and successfully placed EUR 3.0 billion of Convertible And Subordinated Hybrid Equity-linked Securities.

Original post by george_douglas@nrel.gov (George Douglas)

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Ford, EVS23

One of the things we are really looking forward to reporting back to you from EVS23 (International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition) December 2-5 in Anaheim, California, are details on the first plug-in Ford Escape Hybrid. Ford will have test drives, interviews and photo opportunities Monday, December 3 at 2:45 pm, and we will be there collecting all the green details.

The full press release with the exact times of the photo opportunities, test drives, who will be available for interviews and where media should register, is below the fold. Ford is working with the Edison power utility on getting 20 Escape plug-ins into the hands of regular people for testing in 2009. Stay tuned for more details.

Related:

• Jay Leno samples the plug-in Ford Escape Hybrid

[Source: Ford]
Ford Plug-In Hybrid Hits California Streets
11-30-2007 10:30:00 AM

WHAT: Ford delivers first Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid to Southern
California Edison at Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS 23), a key
milestone in a unique partnership between the automaker and the
utility. Join us for demonstration drives and executive
interview opportunities.

WHEN: Monday, Dec. 3, 2:45 p.m. PST
— 2:45 p.m. - Photo Opportunity: First Ford Escape Plug-In
Hybrid delivered to Southern California Edison
— 3:00 p.m. - Interview opportunities (Sue Cischke, senior vice
president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety
Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Nancy Gioia, director,
Sustainable Mobility, Ford Motor Company, and Ed Kjaer,
director, Electric Transportation, Southern California Edison
— Short drives available

WHERE: EVS 23 - Anaheim Convention Center (Convention Way, Anaheim,
Calif.) Entrance to convention hall
Directions:
http://www.anaheimconventioncenter.com/article.cfm?id=33

SUMMARY: Ford’s experience with hybrid technology in the groundbreaking
Escape Hybrid is combined with new advancements in high voltage
Lithium Ion batteries to create the new Ford Escape Plug-In
Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). As part of a unique partnership
between the automotive and utility industries, Southern
California Edison will take possession of the first Ford PHEV
for its research and demonstration fleet. Ford and Southern
California Edison are combining their expertise to develop
technology, business models, understanding of consumer usage
patterns and the relationship between the vehicle and the
electric grid to advance the commercialization of plug-in
technology. Executives will be on hand for interviews. Short
drives will be available for photo opportunities.

The SCE-Ford collaboration, the nation’s first partnership of
this kind, will examine the future of PHEVs as part of a
complete system that incorporates the vehicle, the home and the
electricity grid. SCE’s exhibit at EVS23 will illustrate how the
PHEV will interface with the home, the new smart meters and the
electricity grid.

Media may register on-site or online at:
www.electricdrive.org/evs23/

Contact: Jennifer Moore Paul Klein
313.248.2335 623.302.7935
Jmoor186@ford.com Paul.klein@sce.com

SOURCE Ford Motor Company

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Original post by Lascelles Linton

Original post by LEAKYTCH

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hybrid, Green Daily

Sanyo knows a thing or two about making batteries for vehicles. The company’s batteries are in the 2008 Ford Escape hybrid and the Honda Accord hybrid, for example. The Asia Pulse reports this week that the company announced that it will spend over three billion dollars over the next three years on new rechargeable battery technology (as well as solar cells and other electronic parts). The money the company will spend in the next three years is 40 percent more than similar investments in the preceding three years.

The billions will be spent on 1,000 engineers and to reach Sanyo’s goal of mass producing “lithium ion batteries for hybrid vehicles by fiscal 2009 or fiscal 2010,” the Asia Pulse writes (sorry, the article is behind a Lexis-Nexis wall and can’t be linked to).

[Source: Asia Pulse]

 

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD Step behind the curtain at Ford Motor. Experience the documentary first-hand.

Original post by Sebastian Blanco

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