Comments on: E2T Video: Google to Invest in Green Cars This Summer

By: Google.org Invests in Electric Car Startups « Earth2Tech

Google.org Invests in Electric Car Startups « Earth2Tech — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:23:15 +0000

[...] million investment in green vehicle startup Aptera Motors and lithium ion battery company ActaCell. Last month Reicher told us at its plug-in conference in Washington DC that Google would make investments in [...]

By: Battery Startup ActaCell Charges Up with Google, DFJ « Earth2Tech

Battery Startup ActaCell Charges Up with Google, DFJ « Earth2Tech — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:39:02 +0000

[...] Last month Google.org’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher told us that Google would be making investments in green cars this summer through it’s plug-in hybrid program, RechargeIT. Well, [...]

By: Google’s Plug-In Study Finds As High As 93 MPG « Earth2Tech

Google’s Plug-In Study Finds As High As 93 MPG « Earth2Tech — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:01:29 +0000

[...] is already investing $10 million into its RechargeIT plug-in vehicle program, and told us recently that the company plans to make investments into green cars this summer through the plug-in program. [...]

By: Google Adds Auto Industry to Its List of Revolutions | Go Green Living

Google Adds Auto Industry to Its List of Revolutions | Go Green Living — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:43:41 +0000

[...] opened the conference, which was heavily attended by beltway insiders, by announcing that Google would invest in multiple ventures to prepare wide-scale plug-in electric cars [...]

By: Remy Chevalier

Remy Chevalier — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:57:58 +0000

This is the perfect case of the cart before the horse. Considering the overwhelming resources Google has at its disposal, they'd do better to invest in the development of the high density solid state li-ion chemistries laying waste in the labs of Universities like MIT rather than give more money to the plug-in car makers who just want to buy batteries off the shelf, perpetuating the production of pre-gen chemistries, which is why the entire EV is crawling along rather than acheiving the range it needs to compete on an even playing field with the internal combustion engine.

It's what we told to the folks at the X-Prize... but they just want to build cars before the batteries are ready to meet the challenge, rather than invest in bringing battery technology up to the challenge.

This is why Electrifying Times has been on hiatus, because the entire EV industry is waiting for the battery, while all these Johnny come latelys who have too much money to blow, are still trying to make EV commercially viable without solid state li-ion.

By: Google Adds Auto Industry to Its List of Revolutions « Earth2Tech

Google Adds Auto Industry to Its List of Revolutions « Earth2Tech — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:23:58 +0000

[...] opened the conference, which was heavily attended by beltway insiders, by announcing that Google would invest in multiple ventures to make wide-scale plug-in electric cars [...]

By: Google to Invest in Green Cars This Summer | Dagorret

Google to Invest in Green Cars This Summer | Dagorret — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:06:32 +0000

[...] includes eSolar and Makani, which Google.org invested in through it’s RE Less Than C program.read more | digg [...]

By: JC

JC — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:50:04 +0000

Great initiative.

By: Google To Invest in Plug In Hybrids | GreenEnergyTrends - Stream

Google To Invest in Plug In Hybrids | GreenEnergyTrends - Stream — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:35:00 +0000

[...] Earth2Tech recently chatted with Google’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher. Apparently Google will soon announce investments in green plug in hyrid cars through its RechargeIT program [...]