Planet Relations

It’s been 103 years since the Anderson Electric Car Company based in Detroit made the 1907 Detroit Electric car. Watch GM assemble its new Chevy Volt in a mere 90 seconds in this time lapse video.

When you’re submitting a bid to replace the KC-X aerial refueling tanker at $29.55 billion for 179 airplanes, every second counts. Literally and figuratively. Unfortunately when your bid is 5 minutes late and is disqualified, it works out to $5.91 billion per minute. That’s what allegedly happened to Los Angeles-based US Aerospace and its Ukrainian [...]

Roughly one year ago, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, along with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the U.S.”  Where do we stand with the officially named Bay Area EV Corridor [...]

With a projected net loss of $7 billion for fiscal year 2009, the Postal Service needs to find ways to cut costs. While the Postmaster General’s request to cut Saturday delivery will save $3.5 billion, it’s not nearly enough. Electrification of delivery vehicles is one area that holds promise as it could deliver savings of [...]

Hybrid truck manufacturers and suppliers wrapped up a 3-day conference in Atlanta on Thursday. The Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) showed off the latest medium- and heavy-duty hybrid-electric, hybrid-hydraulic, plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles for commercial and military use. Governor Sonny Perdue even declared this past week Hybrid Truck Week in the state of Georgia. [...]