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Sebring Spyder Concept visions a fully-electric Porsche sportscar

found about 6 hours ago by Vinod on Auto Motto
Marcus Classen, a transportation graduate, has come up with ‘Porsche Sebring Spyder Concept’, which is a design study of a 2-seater, open top and fully-electric sportscar. Marcus got inspiration from Porsche’s rich past and developed the...
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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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Report: Lotus bringing a pair of front-engine hybrids to Paris Motor Show

found about 20 hours ago by Steven J. Ewing on Autoblog
In addition to the pair of Evoras being introduced at this year's Paris Motor Show, Lotus will also be unveiling two front-engine hybrid vehicles, in keeping with the automaker's promise to offer more gasoline/electric sports cars. Edmunds' Green...
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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 21 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 44 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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Toyota Prius Saves Large Parts Of Australia From Being Covered By Noxious Gases

found about 26 hours ago by Bertel Schmitt on The Truth About Cars
Toyota has been selling many hybrids since they introduced the Toyota Coaster Hybrid EV minibus in 1979. A few months later, they stared mass-production of the Prius, and it’s been a runaway hit. In Japan, the Prius is leading the charts. The...
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Toyota MOB concept is a green, recycled and recyclable vehicle

found about 33 hours ago by Vinod on Auto Motto
The brainchild of Spanish designer Jorge Marti Vidal, Toyota MOB concept is a strikingly beautiful car with many of its parts taking inspiration from nature. The unusual bodywork is inspired by the idea of the Mobius strip and the shape of the...
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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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Toyota Prius Sales may Collapse in Japan as Hybrid Subsidies End

found 2 days ago on Carscoop
For more than a year now, the Prius has enjoyed some hefty sales in Japan thanks to the government subsidies for hybrids. But now that the cash-for-clunkers program is coming to an end, sales of Toyota's hybrid model will most likely take a hit,...
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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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New Fuel Economy Window Stickers Chock Full 'O Numbers [I Feel Gassy]

found 3 days ago by Justin Hyde on Jalopnik
One of the following window stickers released today will give buyers of 2012 model year vehicles fuel economy and efficiency data for gas and electric vehicles. U.S. regulators want you to decide which one...
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Is Honda Moving Forward With Hybrid MPV?

found 6 days ago by Mike Magrath on Straightline
    Back at the 2009 Tokyo Auto Show, Honda showed off the six-seat Skydeck Hybrid MPV concept. The mini-minivan featured crazy scissor doors and awesome sliding ones as well as the auto-show-norm shell seats. It also moved Honda's IMA...
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New Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4: World's First Diesel - Electric Hybrid Returns 3.8lt/100km or 61.9mpg US

found 10 days ago on Carscoop
For those of your torn between petrol-hybrid and diesel cars, Peugeot may have the answer for you as the French automaker has presented the world's first production diesel-fueled hybrid vehicle, the 3008 Hybrid4. Unlike your common hybrid that makes...
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Fisker Drops Karma Promo Video

found 7 days ago by Chris Weiss on MotorCrave.com
The Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid is preparing to shake-up the green auto world with its stylish, luxurious looks, roof-mounted solar panels and 400-hp powertrain. Before it does, Fisker is giving us a little peek in a new promotional video. The...
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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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No Honda Fit Hybrid For You!

found 7 days ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
The Honda Fit hybrid makes its worldwide debut next month at the Paris auto show and rolls into showrooms next year — except in the United States. American Honda execs say there are no plans to bring us the four-door compact hybrid because the...
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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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What the Pruck? Toyota Prius and Subaru Baja form kinky bond

found 8 days ago on Carscoop
This is what happens when you have a Toyota Prius with rear end damage, a Subaru Baja (pickup truck version of the Outback) with front end damage, a lot of free time, and a very weird sense of aesthetics - or a sick sense of humor. This...
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Toyota Hopes Sell 5M Hybrids By 2015

found 8 days ago by Chuck Squatriglia on Autopia
Toyota, already the biggest player in the hybrid market, wants to nearly double sales of its gas-electric vehicles by 2015. The company said today that it hopes to reach cumulative sales of 5 million hybrids by the middle of this decade, according...
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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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I See Millions Of Hybrids In Toyota’s Future

found 9 days ago by Bertel Schmitt on The Truth About Cars
Toyota launched their hybrid Prius in late 1997. 13 years later, Toyota has sold a total of about 2.6m hybrids, says The Nikkei [sub]. That mostly because it is the top selling car in Japan.  And also “thanks to government subsidies that favor...
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