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Ford Focus Electric: Warm Blooded

found about 15 hours ago by Mike Magrath on Straightline
Like a common reptile, traditional EVs (is that even something we can say yet?) are wildly influenced by the temperature. Too hot? Well that's no good battery life and range will suffer. Too cold? That's not good, either. So rather than...
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Ford Focus EV Will Use Liquid-Cooled Battery

found about 20 hours ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
Small but interesting nugget of news out of Ford, which says it will use a liquid-cooled and heated battery in the Ford Focus Electric we’ll see late next year. Ford is still developing the car, but the prototype we drove had a 23 kilowatt-hour...
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Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is A Wild Ride

found about 22 hours ago by Keith Barry on Autopia
We’re jealous of the folks who get to drive the Zerotracer. It’s a sporty two-seat enclosed motorcycle that weighs less than 1,400 lbs, can do 0-100 km/hr (62 mph) in less than 4.5 seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph. The Oerlikon Solar...
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Electric Motorcycle Entrepreneur Killed In Crash

found about 45 hours ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
Matt Dieckmann believed the future is electric, and he died hoping to prove it. Dieckmann, the 29-year-old founder of Electric Race Bikes, was killed Monday following a collision with a car in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California. He reportedly...
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Emerging Market Megacities Together In Electric Dreams

found 2 days ago by Bertel Schmitt on The Truth About Cars
In the former millennium, if you had a fantasy in overdrive and writing skills, you wrote books. These days, you join a management consulting company, and you author future scenarios. Easier and far more lucrative than coming up with “The Hunt For...
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Volkswagen’s New Emperor Of China. And His Electric Dreams

found 2 days ago by Bertel Schmitt on The Truth About Cars
Karl-Thomas Neumann, Volkswagen’s new Emperor of China, took over his job today. He replaces  Winfried Vahland, who now runs Volkswagen’s Skoda division. Neumann has a problem many would like to have. “We can’t build enough cars to meet the...
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Nissan Releases More Details on 2011 Leaf Pricing

found 2 days ago by Erin Riches on Straightline
Nissan has been taking "reservations" for the 2011 Leaf for several months, but now the automaker says it's just about ready to start taking orders from U.S. customers. If you have a reservation for a Nissan Leaf, this will involve...
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GM Wants to Trademark ‘Range Anxiety’

found 2 days ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
General Motors has sought a trademark for the term “range anxiety,” providing a glimpse into how it might market the Chevrolet Volt. “Range anxiety” refers to the nagging concern you’ll be stuck miles from home with a dead battery, and it...
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EVs Are Great, Just Don’t Buy The Battery Part Two: 50 Percent Depreciation In Three Years

found 2 days ago by Edward Niedermeyer on The Truth About Cars
With the Mitsubishi i-miev electric car about to hit the British market, the BBC decided to break down the Pounds and tuppence behind the EV hype. And though it found that the i-miev comes out looking quite well thanks to Britain’s EV consumer...
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MG TD Replica Looks Great as an EV Conversion

found 3 days ago by Keith Barry on Autopia
When Doug Small started drawing up plans for a homebrew electric car, he wanted to start with something lightweight, easy to work on and stylish. Naturally, he decided on an MG TD. Purists needn’t worry, however, as no British roadsters were...
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What It’s Like Going 307.7 MPH In An EV

found 4 days ago by Keith Barry on Autopia
What’s the most exciting part of setting a land speed record in an electric vehicle? Roger Schroer, who drove the student-built Buckeye Bullet to a record-breaking 307.7 mph, says the true thrill comes from witnessing the teamwork involved in...
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Volt Gas Mileage Flap: GM PR Blames “Lazy Reporting”

found 7 days ago by Paul Niedermeyer on The Truth About Cars
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does journalism. GM has been trumpeting the Volt’s 40 mile target AER (all electric range) since it was first announced on January 7, 2007. From that very day three years and eight months ago, journalists and...
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All about the home-grown: Canadian company teases Cannabis-bodied electric car

found 7 days ago on Carscoop
Sure, electric cars are neat, but what if we could take the level of green-ness to an all-time high? Alberta-based Motive Industries...(exhale)...recently announced that it has created an electric vehicle called the Kestrel which has a...
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Buckeye Bullet Sets EV Land Speed Record

found 7 days ago by Keith Barry on Autopia
Topping 307 mph is an amazing feat in any vehicle. It’s even more so when the vehicle in question is a student-built electric vehicle. The Venturi Buckeye Bullet built by students at Ohio State University achieved an average speed of 307.7 mph...
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Cars Coming Soon-> Hyundai Goes “24/7″ While Italians Look to Add Some Spice

found 8 days ago by tgriffith on The CarGurus Blog
In the mood for some spicy Italian? In another bold bid to increase its share of the American market, Korean carmaker Hyundai plans on introducing seven new or redesigned models in the next 24 months. Even after that more surprises are in store,...
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Translogic Provides us with the best Chevrolet VOLT video to date.

found 8 days ago by MrAngry on Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility
We’ve all been wondering about the upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt. We’ve speculated about how it would drive, its features, recharging capabilities and performance but up until now we’ve never actually seen a really clean demonstration video....
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Electrified Beetle On Record Breaking Cross-Canadian Trek

found 9 days ago by Keith Barry on Autopia
Students from the University of British Columbia left Vancouver last week on an attempt to set a record for the fastest coast-to-coast drive across Canada in a solely electric vehicle. Range anxiety be damned, this is nearly a 4,000 mile trip ....
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Green Update–>New Fuels, “Real Science Fiction Stuff”

found 9 days ago by jgoods on The CarGurus Blog
News on the green car front is often about small startup companies touting breakthrough cars, like the Coda, whose future is at best problematic. The real breakthroughs are going to occur in labs and R&D facilities engaged in “what the energy...
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BYD Prepares Stock Offering Amid Falling Sales, Foxconn Lawsuit

found 9 days ago by Edward Niedermeyer on The Truth About Cars
Think GM has a tough sell for its coming IPO? Chinese battery/automaker BYD is preparing its own $420m stock offering, likely to be floated on the Shenzhen A-Shares exchange, in the midst of a Chinese-market downturn, and an ongoing lawsuit with...
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Tata’s “Big” EV Gamble

found 15 days ago by Cammy Corrigan on The Truth About Cars
In Europe, governments are ramping up their electric car programmes in order to usher in a new era of alternative propulsion vehicles. Some more successfully than others. And just as the countries are doing their part, the automakers are doing...
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Study Says Consumers Still Worried About Range With EVs

found 9 days ago by Ed Hellwig on Straightline
According to a new report by the Consumer Electronics Association, about half of the people who said they're interested in buying an EV say they're still concerned about range. That's a not insignificant chunk of the electric car buying...
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Video Hints At Volt Performance: Just Over 40 Miles Of EV Range, Under 30 MPG Thereafter

found 9 days ago by Edward Niedermeyer on The Truth About Cars
TTAC has a long, proud tradition of tearing into puffy automotive journalism, so it was not without a little trepidation that I wrote in the comments section of Michael Karesh’s excellent review of Zero To Sixty that Toothless reporters put execs...
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Quote Of The Day: Defining Your Market Edition

found 14 days ago by Edward Niedermeyer on The Truth About Cars
The core consumers would be interested in technology and kind of early adopters Coda Automotive senior VP for sales and distribution Mike Jackson (yes, the former GM marketing whiz) describes the market for his firm’s forthcoming electric car. So...
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Student-Built EV Defies the Odds, May Break a Record

found 10 days ago by Keith Barry on Autopia
Last week our colleagues over at Wired UK posted about a student-built electric vehicle that just might be the world’s most efficient car, achieving the equivalent of 300 mpg. The feat itself was worthy of a mention, but the work that went into...
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‘Ryno’ one-wheeled electric scooter offers green, cost effective ride in cramped city space

found 10 days ago by Vinod on Auto Motto
Like many one-wheeled bikes, Ryno Motors, a US based company, has built a one wheeled electric scooter, dubbed the Ryno. The electric scooter uses a gyroscope to keep itself upright like a Segway. To accelerate the scooter, the rider has to lean...
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Chevy Volt Ready For Pre-Order

found 10 days ago by Steve Little on CarDomain Blog
The 2011 Chevy Volt has been a long time coming, but Chevrolet has been taking pre-orders for its new electric for the better part of a month now. Though there have been reports of dealer gouging, the Volt is offered at the official site for $350 a...
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Renault EV Prototype Testing In Israel

found 10 days ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
Renault is testing a pair of prototype EVs with Better Place in Israel and plans to begin selling the car there next year. The French automaker is pushing the two Fluence Z.E. — for “zero emissions” — sedans hard to see how they perform in...
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The Izaro Motors GT-E, Because the World Needs More Electric Supercar Concepts

found 12 days ago on Carscoop
Yet another electric (or hybrid) supercar has been announced, this time by Spanish Izaro Motors. The car, conceptualized above, would ride on a basalt fiber / magnesium / aluminum chassis and is called the GT-E; of course it is, because E is for...
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Eberhard: We’ll See 500-Mile Batteries By 2020

found 13 days ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
Martin Eberhard, who knows a thing or two about electric vehicles, says we’ll see batteries with 500 miles of range within 10 years. Whether anyone will need that kind of range is beside the point, because of course most people won’t. But...
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“Ultra Conservative” Actor James Caan Rescues Peel, Makers Of The World’s Smallest Car

found 13 days ago by Edward Niedermeyer on The Truth About Cars
Thanks to one of the most popular Top Gear segments ever, the Peel P50 is now well-established in the minds and imaginations of the world’s automotive cognoscenti. After all, how often does Clarkson say that “if [car X] had a reverse gear, I...
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