China To Best U.S. in EVs But Not Hybrids
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 | China is likely to become the largest market for plug-in electric vehicles thanks to a larger relative government investment, but will trail the U.S. in hybrid sales. The Chinese government announced it will spend $14.7 billion through 2020 on alter ... |
Chelsea Sexton: Early adopters will snap up electric vehicles
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 | I go to Chelsea Sexton for common sense about electric vehicles. Best known to the public for her passionate defense of the General Motors EV-1 (that's Chelsea in "Who Killed the Electric Car?" as the GM employee outraged that the company was crushin ... |
Charging an Electric Car Without the Plug
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 | by David A. Gabel The new generation of electric cars that are set to hit the market promise to help end the world's dependence on fossil fuels and clean the air. However, they are not without flaws. One particular flaw in their charging system may ... |
Japan Post to purchase 1,000 lithium-ion-powered minivehicles
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 | Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Green Daily , Japan The Japan Post Service Co. hopes to green up its mail service with the addition of 1,000 Fuji Heavy minivehicles converted over to electric drive. The vehicles come packed with a lithium-ion batteries an ... |
Meet the Coda Electric Car, Soon Available in California
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 | The ever-evolving Coda sedan in Santa Monica. (Jim Motavalli photo) LOS ANGELES--I spent four days in California running back and forth between green car companies, including Coda , Tesla , Fisker and AC Propulsion . This state is becoming the epice ... |
Plug-N-Go EV Charging Station Showcased at Green Energy Expo
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 | The world’s first factory built-to-order solar-powered EV charging station was recently unveiled at the 2010 International Green Energy Expo in Korea in a bid to raise awareness and push the potential for electric vehicles in Asia. Developed by SunPo ... |
Tesla Co-Founder: Electric Cars with 500+ Mile Range by 2020
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 | Martin Eberhard with a Tesla electric Roadster. Photo: Flickr , CC EV Forecast: Sunny, But Uncertain Martin Eberhard, one of the original co-founders of Tesla Motors in 2003 and now director at Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), is ... |
Electric car charging network expected to survive cuts
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 | Whitehall spending review expected to approve multimillion-pound scheme to accelerate rollout of 'Plugged-in places' electric car recharging infrastructure The government's upcoming spending review is expected to save the high-profile Plugged-in Pla ... |
Some numbers regarding electric cars, both good and better
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 | Filed under: EV/Plug-in , MPG There are a lot of different ways to measure how electric cars will impact our lives, perhaps as many ways to measure as there will be changes to our daily transportation in the coming years. Today, we present two optio ... |
Seoul will install 100 new EV charging stations
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| In an effort to promote the use of eco-friendly vehicles, the city government of the South Korean capital Seoul is working to secure enough parking spaces to accommodate minimum two electric vehicles and at least one charging station at each of Seou ... |
Pint-sized Buddy electric vehicle stops 80-ton freight train in its tracks
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 | Filed under: Etc. , EV/Plug-in , Green Culture , Green Daily It's certainly not a common sight to see an electric vehicle parked on some desolate train tracks located near Norway's border with Russia, but it's all done for a good cause. The pint-siz ... |
Electric Cars Will Be Sold and Serviced Like Appliances, Thankfully
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 | by Brad Berman Hardcore gearheads use the term "appliance" to put down electric cars. But those EV haters don't realize that gas-powered racers have nothing on electric cars-loaded with low-end torque-when it comes to pure driving pleasure. Like it ... |
Transparent Eco Vehicles - The Delasalle Electric Car is Super Efficient (GALLERY)
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 | (TrendHunter.com) Students from the DeLaSalle School in Kansas city and the engineers from Bridgestone Americas' Technical Center have built a super efficient electric car which was successfully tested on Bridgestone's… ... |
Chelsea Sexton: Early adopters will snap up the electric vehicles
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www.mnn.com | discovered: | published:
| I go to Chelsea Sexton for common sense about electric vehicles. Best known to the public for her passionate defense of the General Motors EV-1 (that’s Chelsea in "Who Killed the Electric Car?" as the GM employee outraged that the company was crush ... |
Ford Focus Electric Cars from New Green Michigan Plant
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| By John Addison Ford Focus EV Gets Green Plant Ford’s (F) new Focus Electric Car and Plug-in Hybrid will be built in one of the auto industry’s greenest manufacturing plants. Ford is working with Detroit Edison (DTE) to install a 500-kilowatt solar p ... |
Zero Race aims to promote emissions free transport
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 | Eco Factor: Electric vehicle set off for the longest and greenest world tour. After making news with his 18-month pioneering world tour in a solar-powered “taxi” two years ago, Swiss schoolteacher Louis Palmer is now organizing another tour to promo ... |
Underwriters Laboratory to offer charger installation training program
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 | Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Green Daily Just in time for the debut of two very-hyped plug-in vehicles from Nissan and Chevrolet , the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) will launch a training program aimed at informing installers, electricians, manufacturer ... |
