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Zero Emissions = Zero Tailpipe

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Free Golf Carts: Congress Offers Green Energy Tax Break

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Coca-Cola Bottling Company reinforces commitment to environment with expansion of hybrid-electric fl

Coca-Cola Bottling Company is expanding its fleet of hybrid-electric delivery trucks... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 3rd December 2009

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CEO Quentin Sponselee predicts market "electric" winners and losers, and opportunities for consumers

Electrified vehicles are poised to transform the automobile industry. As the CEO of Terramoto Transportation, Quentin Sponselee is more than just knowledgeable about innovations in the car industry. He has invaluable first-hand experience with these new vehicles and sees himself as a "Master Test Driver" on the front line of the electric car wars, an evaluator of new cars he deals with in his sustainability-oriented transportation business.

Consumers in Southern California are getting a preview of what the EV wars will look like as the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt both made recent tours around San Diego to build momentum for their 2010 launches. "Southern California has become a front-line market for the Leaf and Volt," says Sponselee. "San Diego will play an important role in how these new technology platforms are adopted around the country and it is my responsibility to do more than provide a better service than my competitors. It is also my job to educate the passenger". Sponselee predicts that as early as December 5th, 2009 General Motors Corp. will announce San Diego as a strategic test market and unveil major plans to recapture market share.

In its first year of business, TerraMoto completed 9,414 trips and has become the preferred transportation for San Diego County’s most prestigious hotel and technology companies. As the leading transportation service providing a more sustainable and high quality alternative, Terramoto stands to gain from a clear winner. CEO Sponselee warns though that there are many gaps in consumer education about new vehicles even as the Prius introduces its third generation vehicle prior to introducing plug-in hybrids. "One of the most frequently asked questions we receive from our passengers about the Prius is 'Do you have to plug it in?' This is not just asked by San Diegans, but by executives being picked up at San Diego International who are from other parts of the country", says Sponselee.

While a great deal of excitement has been generated about concept cars, Sponselee contends it's time to move beyond capturing our imagination to harnessing this excitement to sell cars to mainstream consumers. Detroit has struggled with this in the past and Nissan may lose ground as well as they attempt to manufacture electric vehicles in China, the world's largest car market today. "It's been reported that Nissan [the Japanese automaker and its Chinese partner Dongfeng Motor Co.] recently signed an agreement to promote electric vehicles in China and study the possibility of opening a production plant in Guangzhou. This is a will be a big mistake as the US leads in infrastructure investment and infrastructure will be built early in San Diego", says Sponselee . The Nissan Leaf is expected to reach China by 2011, but Nissan has already announced the earlier deployment of up to 1,000 Nissan battery electric vehicles in strategic markets in five US states: Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington.

"Nissan's attempt to penetrate the Chinese EV market will be difficult as the nation has few hybrid and EV owners", says Sponselee. California is world-renowned for early adoption of innovations like the Prius. A Chinese Economic website reports the US sold 13 million new vehicles last year, 313,486 or 2.4 percent of them hybrids. China, by comparison, sold 9.38 million vehicles last year, but only 2,617, or 2.8 out of 10,000, were hybrids. Sales of the Toyota-made Prius have exceeded 1.25 million globally, but only 3,500 of the sedans have been sold in China since they were introduced in the country three years ago.

source: http://3blmedia.com/theCSRfeed/TerraMoto-CEO-Reports-Front-Lines-Electric-Vehicle-EV-WarsElectrified vehicles are poised to transform the automobile industry. As the CEO of... more

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Bob Lutz Unveils the Cadillac Converj Hybrid Concept

Electric luxury Cadillac style 60 mls pure electric (go to work) and 4 cylinder... more

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Revenge of the Electric Car

Green Giants: Conversations with Global Environmental Leaders BS Top - Dakotah... more

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Washington state project could charge up electric car corridors

A year from now, roughly 1,000 all-electric vehicles will be whispering around... more

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Electric Roads

KAIST’s newly developed electric vehicle system could be onto something. The... more

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Nissan's new concept car 'feels like flying' (w/ Video)

Nissan unveiled Thursday a futuristic concept car that tilts to the side when going... more

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Fisker Automotive awarded $528.7 million in U.S. DOE loans to develop a plug in hybrid

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Nissan's EV Leaf Comes With Charging Infrastructure (Sort Of)

With the release of several different EVs within the next year, the infrastructure... more

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Smart Grid Is Coming To Your Neighborhood

Electrical "Smart" grids means adding all kinds of information technology,... more

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Audi e-tron Will Be Produced And Ready To Drive By 2012

Audi's sleek all-electric e-tron sports car, unveiled as only a concept a couple... more

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Nissan's zero-emission fashion statement

Nissan's Land Glider electric vehicle tilts from side to side, sashaying into... more

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Honda Electric EV-N Comes Complete w/ UX-3 Unicycle!

At the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, Honda will be unveiling a new electric car concept... more

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Google PowerMeter

Lithium-ion battery producer, A123 Systems Inc, goes public under symbol AONE,... more

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The richest man, thanks to the environment

China is financing alternative energy and now, according to the magazine Hurun, the... more

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Li-Ion Battery Breakthrough: Silicon Nanotubes Boost Capacity 10x

Looks like the future of EVs is looking good. [Click on the link for the article]

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2010 the Nissan Leaf is up for Reserve

20,000 pre-orders will be available. No official word on what the MSRPrice will be,... more

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