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During his trip to Michigan, the President was photgraphed inside both, but it does’t seem like he had the chance to drive them.
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Alternative Fuels
Marketing Will Count For Everything in the Transportation Revolution
- by Matt Creamer
It’s tough to imagine a solar provider becoming the next Twitter. It’s not nearly as hard, however, to imagine a Tesla becoming the next Apple.
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Alternative Fuels
As Obama Goes Electric, Propane Remains the Most Popular Alternative Fuel
- by Matt Creamer
On Thursday, as President Obama is visiting an electric vehicle plant in Michigan, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be talking about a much less sexy clean transportation mode: propane vehicles. He’ll be visiting Baker Equipment in Richmond, Va, a 91-year-old that sells diggers, cranes, trucks of all sorts — and converts gasoline-based vehicles to run
Read more »While Zipcar has earlier mover advantage, more and more competition is expected from the rental giants.
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Cars / Electric Vehicles / Hybrids
The Ad Barrage for the Chevy Volt Has Begun
- by Matt Creamer
When the Chevy Volt begins to rollout this winter, you can be sure that the marketing will be loud, even if the car isn’t. A teaser ad now airing in the New York and other launch markets, along with print ads, focused on how quiet the plug-in hybrid drives. All in all, it’s a relatively
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Bikes Belong hired Minneapolis ad agency Colle & McVoy to design a campaign on behalf of the bike. The agency came up with this nice-looking effort pushing the now-indisputable point that cycling’s reach has extended to the fully-employed, many of whom use bikes to navigate their busy schedules.
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Cars / Electric Vehicles
A Smart ‘Buy’ Rationale for Tesla: It Might Get Acquired
- by Matt Creamer
Wall Street is split on whether newly-traded shares of Tesla are worth buying right now, with the skepticism rightly focused on the company’s lack of profitability, small sales figures and the fact that its mass-production vehicle won’t be available til late 2011. Marketwatch’s Hilary Kramer is aware of these criticism, but she’s nevertheless bullish on
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Charles H. White Jr., former head of the Railroad Policy Office in the U.S. Department of Transportation, thinks the Obama Administration is right to fund high-speed rail programs both to create jobs and reduce fuel consumption. However, in a Baltimore Sun op-ed, he argues that the administration is going slightly off the rails — ahem
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Cars / Electric Vehicles
Can the Chevy Volt Become the New Heartbeat of America?
- by Matt Creamer
A Chevy Volt will roll into into New York City this weekend, as it wraps a 1,776-mile (get it?) journey from Austin, Texas. The trip, naturally, is a promotional stunt for the GM plug-in hybrid due in 2011. Associating sustainability with patriotism is a good and, probably, necessary idea as General Motors gets ready to
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