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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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