Green Car News
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Chevrolet is offering a few tips for drivers new to electric motoring.
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GM CEO: Cadillac To Take On Tesla, One Day--With Plug-In Hybrid Sedan, Perhaps?
It looks like the success of the Tesla Model S all-electric luxury sedan may be starting to get under GM's skin. CEO Dan Akerson told the Detroit News that General Motors will compete with Tesla Motors--"ultimately"--through its Cadillac luxury brand. But, Akerson said, he remained unconvinced that...
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Tesla Facts, Fisker's Loan, GM's Tesla Rival: This Week @ Green Car Reports
What happened this week in the world of green cars? This week, we told you five facts about Tesla Motors and electric cars that might have surprised you. Tesla also made headlines when CEO Elon Musk said the electric car company would have a self-driving car on the road within three years. That...
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Moore's Law, Sugarcane Ethanol, California Clunkers: Today's Car News
Today on Green Car Reports, we've got a slew of ideas for reducing emissions, and one counterpoint. Some people think electric cars are subject to their own version of Moore's Law, and we'll see if they're right. On the positive side, China is subsidizing electric cars, Brazil is offering sugarcane...
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Spray-On Solar Cells Show Promise For Cheaper Sun Power
Spray-on solar cells could make solar panels easier to manufacture and install.
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California Incentivizes Ditching Dirtiest Cars, Buying Cleanest Ones
California is looking to get older vehicles off the road, and is paying drivers to trade them in.
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Under its "new energy vehicle" policy, China will subsidize the purchase of electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen cars, but not hybrids.
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Is Brazilian Sugarcane The Answer To U.S. Biofuels Needs?
Is Brazilian sugarcane the perfect biofuel for American drivers? Brazil believes ethanol made from sugarcane can supplement corn-based ethanol produced in the United States, which would help meet U.S. government targets for increased biofuel consumption. Under the Energy Independence and Security...
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Mentioning Moore's Law For Electric Cars: Sign Of Ignorance
You see and hear it all the time, sometimes from people who really ought to know better. It's the notion that electric cars are going to improve incredibly, amazingly, unimaginably fast ... "because of Moore's Law." If you see or hear that statement, folks, you should view the entire report with...
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Audi R8 E-Tron, More Efficient Volvos, Five Tesla Facts: Today's Car News
Today's news includes the somewhat exaggerated death of the Audi R8 e-tron electric supercar, Volvo's new Drive-E engines, and things you probably didn't know about Tesla Motors.
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Five Facts About Tesla & Electric Cars That May Surprise You
Tesla always tops the charts. Coverage of the feisty startup electric-car maker from Silicon Valley attracts huge attention any time it appears. Discussion boards, forums, videos, comment sections, and investment blogs overflow with opinions, analysis, and utterly confident (and wildly differing)...
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Americans Want More E15, Other Ethanol Blends, New Poll Says
A new poll claims 82 percent of Americans want to put E15, a blend of 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline, in their cars.
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Where should you put public charging stations for electric cars? Local businesses and governments and urban planners all over the country are grappling with that question right now. But one Canadian city has passed a law that requires new or renovated gas stations to install electric-car charging equipment--or other "alternate fuel" filling-station infrastructure. That town is Surrey, in the western province of British Columbia. Southeast of Vancouver and with 460,000 residents, it's the second-largest city in B.C. after Vancouver itself. Quick charging, natural gas, hydrogen The city's...
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Before Plug-In Hybrids, Volvo Preps Efficient New Gas Engines
As German luxury brands have moved to smaller turbocharged engines with much-improved gas mileage, Volvo's entire U.S. lineup has remained powered by five- and six-cylinder engines. Yet with the introduction of a new generation of so-called Drive-E engines—and eight-speed automatic...
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Audi R8 e-Tron Not Completely Dead Yet, Suggests Official
Yes, Audi earlier this year did say that it won't be building its electric supercar, the R8 e-tron. But the plug might not have been pulled completely. According to Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, the member of the Audi AG board of management in charge of technical development, the R8 e-tron was an...
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Tesla Self-Driving Car, Lots Of Turbos, DoE Troubles: Today's Car News
Today on Green Car Reports, Elon Musk stays in the news (you're not really surprised, are you?), Volkswagen and Ford both tout their turbos, and the U.S. Department of Energy faces up to some hard financial facts. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Tesla will launch a self-driving car within...
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Tesla To Build A Self-Driving Car Within 3 Years, CEO Musk Says
Tesla says it will have a self-driving car on the road before anyone else, and that it will develop all of the necessary technology in-house.
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Electric-Car Charging Network Ecotality Files For Bankruptcy
The writing has been on the wall for a while now, but Ecotality filed for bankruptcy on Monday, according a report yesterday by the Associated Press. The provider of electric-car charging stations, known for its Blink network, has been troubled for some time. More than a year ago, Blink's charging...
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Ford recently built its two-millionth EcoBoost engine. The small turbocharged engines are available in 90 percent of Ford vehicles.
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Energy Department To Sell Its Fisker Loan: Kickstarter, Anyone?
That sound you heard yesterday was the other shoe dropping. The U.S. Department of Energy is offering its loan to Fisker Automotive for sale to the highest bidder, with a remaining face value of $164 million. The DoE did the same a few weeks ago with a much smaller loan--$45 million--to Vehicle...
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Volkswagen's Future Engines: All Turbo For Gasoline & Diesel
Volkswagen will eliminate the last of its naturally-aspirated engines as models are refreshed or redesigned.
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2014 BMW i3 Electric Car: Production Begins Today In Germany
Production of the 2014 BMW i3 is underway; it goes on sale in the United States early next year.
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Ford To Install Electric-Car Charging Stations At Company Sites
Ford will install about 200 electric car charging stations at company offices, manufacturing plants, and campuses beginning later this year.
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GM's 200-Mile Electric Car, Hydrogen Stations, Math Is Hard: Today's Car News
Today on Green Car Reports, we correct the math in Forbes magazine, GM says it wants to build a Tesla competitor, and Jewish holidays cause clean air. All this and more on Green Car Reports. General Motors says it's developing a $30,000 electric car with 200 miles of range; sounds like Tesla...
John Voelcker