2008 LA Show: From the Trenches
I felt like a war correspondent at the LA Show yesterday. There was no need to dig out the story; it was unfolding all around me with startling ferocity, and on a scale and scope few could have imagined a few months ago....
Miles EV highway speed sedan, first official rendering
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Miles EV Click to enlarge Back in 2007, this car was called the Javlon XS500. Then it got shortened to just XS500. Now, the all-electric sedan that Miles EV wants to bring market in 2010 or so is called, well, nothing yet. A highway-speed sedan that Miles hopes to sell 9,000 of in 2010 is visually just what you see above, but there are running prototypes in the states today. The estimated cost is...
LA 2008: Nate Holden's electric car non-conference
Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Green DailyPhoto by Daquella manera. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.Yesterday morning at the LA Auto Show, Nate Holden, a retired LA City Councilman and California State Senator held a press conference on electric cars. Well, that was the plan, anyway. I went to the place where the conference was supposed to happen (and at the right time, too), but couldn't find anyone. I called the press contact but...
Piling on the Automakers: Waxman Waxes Dingell, Claims Energy and Commerce Chair
DETROIT - As a bailout/loan guarantee plan for the Detroit Three fizzles comes word from Capitol Hill that Representative Henry Waxman (D-California) has unseated John Dingell (D-Michigan) as chairman of the Energy &...