The main advantages of electric cars are convenience, environmental benefits and fun. EVs are fun to drive while you are doing good things for the world. How so? First, let’s take a look at the conveniences of battery powered electric cars: 1. EVs are simple to start compared to gas powered cars. You never really [...]
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We're all about alternatives to gasoline here so when General Motors announced pricing earlier this week for the compressed natural gas conversion of its full-size 2011 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana Cargo vans, we posted the info. But the price did make us gulp – the base $25,980 vans become $41,890 vans after the conversions. [...]
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Above, the instrument panel on the 2011 Lexus CT 200h premium compact hybrid in Normal, EV and ECO modes. The all-new 2011 Lexus CT 200h compact hybrid, which will appear at the Paris Motor Show in coming days and reach dealerships in October, is equipped with four driving modes to mesh with the moods of [...]
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As the Obama Administration readies for the next round of federal fuel economy rule making, an influential consumer group is urging that automakers be required to meet a 60 mpg fleet average for light cars and trucks beginning in 2025. That would represent a 71 percent increase from the present Corporate Average Fuel Economy – [...]
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GM was experimenting with electric car conversions as early as the 1960s. The Corvair and Chevette models were converted to electric, but never produced. Then in 1987 came a racin in the sun; the solar powered auto race across Australia. The GM sponsored solar powered Sunraycer won. GM followed up with the 1990 Impact electric [...]
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With the environment becoming an ever increasingly debated topic, as is reducing carbon emissions with one of the main contributors to this problem being auto mobiles. Over the past decade the cars on the road have become much cleaner and are leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in terms of carbon emissions. However [...]
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CNET (blog) Detroit gets electric car charging stationThe Detroit NewsDetroit — About 4600 electric vehicle charging stations will be installed throughout the country under a federally funded program, ChargePoint America, …Detroits NextEnergy Charges Ahead With First Michigan Power Station in …Parking Network (press release)all 15 news articles » View full post on electric car – Google [...]
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Making good on their word to introduce more hybrid vehicles, Lotus reps today announced that the British automaker will unveil a pair of heavyweight front-engine Lotus hybrids at the Paris Auto Show later this month. One will be a four-door hatchback in the style of the Porsche Panamera. The other will be a two-door coupe. [...]
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Sales of gas-electric cars and trucks in August were down 40.4 percent from a year earlier, with only a handful of models – led by Ford's still accelerating Fusion Hybrid – posting advances over their year-earlier performances. ———-Honda CR-Z, the only new hybrid model introduced in August, wasn't enough to pull the gas-electric segment out [...]
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With the environmental impact of the recent Gulf Coast oil disaster still largely unknown, it is becoming abundantly clear that we need to greatly cut down our dependence on gas. One way to do this is to spend $40,000 to buy a brand new electric car. What if you don’t have that kind of money to [...]
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General Motors has made no secret of the fact that it intends to use a scare tactic to help sell its Chevrolet Volt plug-n hybrid, due to appear in U.S. showrooms starting this December. GM executives and PR people, mindful of the fact that the Volt will be coming on market about the same time [...]
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Tesla Motors announced today that its Roadster has been approved for the Japanese government's Clean Energy Cash Rebate Program, which allows buyers of the all-electric high-performance sports car in Japan to receive a cash rebate of up to 3.24 million yen (or $38,000 at today's exchange rate). The Roadster is only the second standard-sized car, [...]
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GulfNews Nissan: 300 in Hawaii should get Leaf in JanuaryBusinessWeekNissan says all 300 Hawaii residents who have put down deposits for the Leaf electric car should get a vehicle when the first shipment arrives in January. …Motivational speaker likes the Nissan Leaf so much he's now a car salesmanMother Nature Network (blog)Hawaii signs electric car [...]
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GulfNews Nissan: 300 in Hawaii should get Leaf in JanuaryBusinessWeekNissan says all 300 Hawaii residents who have put down deposits for the Leaf electric car should get a vehicle when the first shipment arrives in January. …Motivational speaker likes the Nissan Leaf so much he's now a car salesmanMother Nature Network (blog)Hawaii signs electric car [...]
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Forbes (blog) Chevy Volt, Electric Revolution? Or Outta Gas?FOXNews (blog)GM did not kick out the kind of street-legal version of a golf cart like we have seen with previous attempts at making an electric car. …Should GM be allowed to trademark 'range anxiety?'USA Todayhttp://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1048912_gm-moving-to-own-range-anxiety-for …Green Car Reports (blog)GM's Trying to Trademark Your FearAltTransportAutoblog (blog) -AutoGuide.com -Reutersall 80 [...]
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Treehugger Who's got their electric car act together?CNNMoneyIt expects to sell 200000 units a year of its electric car, the Fluence ZE (for zero emission), which it developed with its corporate partner, Nissan, …Electric Sports Cars, SUVs and Mini-Vans in Fully Charged Round-up (Video)TreehuggerNew Cars 2011: What to Look for in Hybrid and Electric CarsCBS [...]
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If you just listen to the car manufacturers, hybrid electric cars are the best and innovative invention since slice bread. Although, there many reasons to purchase an electric car, it is of great help to have the understanding of its benefits and drawbacks of hybrid electric cars and in owning these new “green vehicles. Benefits [...]
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Nissan and CODA Take an Electric Car Shine to Hawaii – PluginCars.com (blog)
VentureBeat Nissan and CODA Take an Electric Car Shine to HawaiiPluginCars.com (blog)All on a series of islands that are particularly well-suited to the electric car; they have small-footprints, are populated by mostly low speed roads, …Coda To Launch Electric Car In HawaiiMediaPost Publications (blog)New electric car will launch in HawaiiCanadianDriverCODA Automotive to Launch the All-Electric [...]
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