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FAW-Volkswgaen's new electric car will use Protean in-wheel motors.
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Average Vehicle Weight, Power Fell In 2012, Performance Unchanged: EPA
You might be forgiven for thinking that as cars get ever heavier, better equipped, safer, more practical, more powerful and faster, fuel economy would suffer. Thankfully, the EPA's latest set of statistics proves that isn't the case--and dispels other notions such as increasing weight and ever...
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2014 BMW i3 On The Track: Maker Releases First Hot-Lap Video
A race track is not the typical environment for an electric city car with narrow tires and upright styling. Nevertheless, that's exactly where the 2014 BMW i3 finds itself in BMW's latest video, displaying its handling prowess on a closed circuit. It's a place few actual i3 owners will ever...
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Opel P1 376-MPG Record-Holder Still For Sale, At $425,000
The 1959 Opel P1 set a record of 376 mpg in a test at an Illinois airfield in 1973.
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Startup Tred Offers Test Drives In Electric, Hybrid Cars To Get 'Butts In Seats'
It's been said before but bears repeating: One of the best ways to get people interested in electric cars is to get "butts in seats"--getting potential customers behind the wheel to experience the cars and see just how good they are to drive. It's not always easy to do, though. Some people don't...
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2015 Ford Mustang, Tesla Model S Road Trips, Fuel-Cell Cars: This Week In Social Media
What's been happening in the world of green automotive news this week? Let's recap: News broke that Ford might consider diesel, hybrid or even electric powertrains for the Mustang in the future, and we discussed what the new 2015 Mustang's fuel-economy ratings might be. In Tesla-related news...
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Today on Green Car Reports: A lesson in electric-car charging etiquette, chemists propose using methanol fuel cells to power cars, and lessons learned road-tripping in a Tesla Model S. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The owner of a 100,000-mile Nissan Leaf electric car will be honored Monday. Toyota says hydrogen fuel-cell cars will be price-competitive with electrics by 2030. Lessons learned from a series of 600-mile road trips in a Tesla Model S. Did Lamborghini Countach designer Marcello Gandini pen a top-secret Tata composite city car? A new video explains etiquette tips for...
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Methanol Made With Renewable Energy Could Power Fuel Cells (Video)
Could a methanol economy replace the hydrogen economy?
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Etiquette Tips For Electric-Car Charging: New Video Explains It All
The modern wave of electric cars has brought with it many benefits, but also a few downsides. Aside from obvious factors like the issue of range anxiety for some users or spending a little more to buy a plug-in car in the first place, one of the biggest problems faced by actual electric car users...
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Top-Secret Tata Composite Car Styled By Lamborghini Countach Designer Gandini?
Humble cars designed by supercar stylists are nothing new. The original Fiat Panda, one of Europe's best-loved cars through the 1980s, was the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro, best known for cars like the Lotus Esprit. The first-generation Volkswagen Golf was another Giugiaro product. Marcello Gandini...
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Road Trips In A Tesla Model S Electric Car: Lessons Learned
It's one facet of the American myth: Get in your car, drive away from wherever you are, take the road trip. Think crossing the country to find the California Dream. Think Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Think buddy movies. MORE: Tesla Model S Road Trip: 1,200 West Coast Electric-Car Miles More...
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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars Price-Competitive With Electrics By 2030, Toyota Says
Toyota hopes advances in design and parts sharing will cut the cost of fuel-cell vehicles.
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Today on Green Car Reports: We run down what happened on a second Tesla Model S road trip, BMW i3 repairs may not be as pricey as feared, and we tell you all about Honda's hybrids. All this and more on Green Car Reports. It may have a body of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), but the 2014 BMW i3 may be cheaper to repair (and hence to insure) than you expected. We've updated our Ultimate Guide to Honda hybrids with all the latest info on the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid, which was also our Best Car To Buy 2014 award winner. Apparently, Toyota will launch its Fuel-Cell Vehicle in production...
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Why Some Dealers Are Inept At Selling Plug-In Electric Cars
People tend to recall bad or frustrating experiences more acutely than good ones. Which is likely why a staple of plug-in car forums is the bad-treatment-at-a-car-dealership story. Anecdotes abound about Chevrolet and Nissan dealers who tried to pull Volt and Leaf buyers away from plug-in electrics...
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Life With Tesla Model S East-Coast Road Trip: Freeze In Slow Lane, Or Languish At Nissan Dealers?
After reading George Parrott's article yesterday about his effortless 1,200-mile West Coast road trip along Tesla's Supercharger Highway, I have only one thing to say. "George, you lucky bastard." You see, I too recently made a 1,200-mile journey in my Tesla Model S. And it wasn't quite so...
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Toyota To Launch Production Fuel-Cell Vehicle At CES In Las Vegas
Typically, the latest new vehicles are released at one of the year's major auto shows--January's Detroit Auto Show, for example, or the Geneva Motor Show in March. For Toyota's production fuel-cell vehicle though, the Japanese automaker has chosen January's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las...
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2014 BMW i3: Cheaper To Repair, Insure Than You'd Expect
Carbon fiber is not a cheap material. If it was, we'd all be driving around in cars made from it--rather than it being limited to a few supercars and high-end sports cars. And the BMW i3, of course. The expense of its carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) chassis might lead you to assume repairing...
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Ford EcoSport First Drive, Leaf-Powered Office, Ethanol Decline: Today's Car News
Electric-car charging and ethanol make headlines today.
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600 miles in a day in the all-electric Tesla Model S
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Ethanol A Victim Of Change As Gasoline Sales Have Flatlined?
Eight years ago, ethanol was going to let the U.S. grow its own vehicle fuel, reduce its use of gasoline made from imported oil, and boost energy security. How much have you heard about those themes lately? Not much, we'd wager. A lot has changed since the 2007 passage of the Energy Independence...
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Blackout? No Problem For Leaf-Powered Office Building
Japan's geological instability poses a real energy problem for the country--as witnessed during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster. Generating power and transmitting it to homes and businesses can be difficult following an earthquake or Tsunami, which is why...
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Ford EcoSport Compact Crossover: Forbidden Fruit First Drive
Last year, Nissan sold over 230,000 examples of its Juke compact crossover worldwide. MINI sold over 100,000 Countryman and Paceman models. Kia moved nearly 400,000 Sportage crossovers. The message here is that subcompact and compact crossovers are big business. Ford knows this, which is why its...
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NYC Law To Make 20 Percent Of New Parking Spaces Electric-Car Ready
New parking facilities in the Big Apple will have to electric-car charging capability for 20 percent of their spaces.
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Hyundai Intrado Fuel-Cell Concept Preview, AWD MPG, Best Electric-Car States: Today's Car News
Electric cars, all-wheel drive cars, and fuel-cell cars make headlines today.
Stephen Edelstein