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Have a seat and get the latest green car news in easy-to-carry audio format. For the eighth AutoblogGreen podcast, we speak with Tobia Ciottone of ZipCar Chicago. If you've ever wanted to know how to bring car-sharing to your town, we've got the answer.

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The first thing you'll notice is our new podcast music, a bridge from your other audio files to the AutoblogGreen news. But what we're really excited about it our interview with Gary Smyth, director of Powertrain Systems Research Lab at GM (interview transcript coming soon). We also try to figure out the recent green car news about the Spyder, the possible CAFE standards increase, and Smarts U.S. toe-dipping (which might be a bit of a cannonball). Whattya think?

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In episode four of our AutoblogGreen podcast, Sam and Sebastian get the goods on nanotech batteries from Alan Gotcher, President and Chief Executive Officer of Altairnano, the battery company behind Phoenix's SUT (and upcoming SUV and PHEV). We also celebrate AutoblogGreen's one-year anniversary and look forward to year two.

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We give a brief recap of the green highlights of the New York Auto Show including the GM mini car triplets and the AFVI conference in Anaheim, California. Sam has an interview with Neal Anderson of the Automotive X-Prize and Sebastian talks to people behind the Naro car and the Connaught Type-D hybrid.


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Sebastian and Sam discuss what's coming out at this weeks Alternative Fuel Vehicle conference in Anaheim, and New York Auto Show as well as some of this weeks news. Prior to the recent GM battery technology briefing, Sam, Ed Ring, David Houle, and Jeff McIntire-Strasburg got to sit down with Larry Burns, GM Vice President for breakfast and a discussion of where he thinks GM is going with alternative fuel technology. The Q and A session led to some interesting discussion.

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On this page you'll find a directory of all our podcasts, from newest to oldest. We're just getting started, so stay tuned for more. Lots more.

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• Show #1. Release Date: March 12, 2007. Hosts: Sam and Sebastian. Topics include green cars at the Geneva Auto Show. Interview guest: Tesla Motors CEO Martin Eberhard. 42 min. Listen/download here.

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This is part 2 of the AutoblogGreen interview with Tesla CEO Martin Eberhard that was in ABG Podcast #1. You can find part 1 here.

ABG: What's the timing for WhiteStar? When would you expect to see that in production?

ME: Target production is mid to late 2009.

ABG: And what about production volumes? How many a year would you expect to to see?

ME: We would like to step up by a factor of ten of what we're doing now roughly. So the initial year of production we would like to build in the neighborhood of 10,000 cars.

ABG: And how about price? What's going to be the price target for the WhiteStar?

ME: There will be of course versions of this product, but we'd like to bring the price point down significantly and we right now have been saying that the target price for the low end version of the car is going to be under $50,000.

Read the conclusion of the ABG discussion with Martin Eberhard after the jump, including some discussion of the EV business and other manufacturers.

AutoblogGreen has been expanding in recent months (d'ja notice the new photo galleries?) and we're going to continue this trend with the launch of our own podcast sometime in the next few weeks. We're still hashing out the details and lining up guests, and while we do that, we'd like your input. Today, we're got three requests:

First, tell us what you'd like the podcast to be like. We've got our own ideas, but many are smarter than the few, so feel free to go nuts in the comments section with your brilliant ideas.

Second, if you're a musician (or know any) and would like your music featured in the podcast, we want to hear what you've got. I know there is a lot of free music available on the web for things like this, but we've got a good community here and we'd love to use the talents of our readers listeners audience as we continue to grow. We're not looking for any particular type of music, just something that works well as an intro or an outro. Tell us what you've got by leaving a comment on this post or by using the contact us link.

Third, if you're involved in the green car industry and would like to be interviewed for one of our podcasts, please contact us using the same methods outlined above. We've got the first few interviews in the works, but we want to bring the best of the green vehicle community to our readers listeners audience. So sign up now.

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