plug-in cars
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Tesla will expand the drivetrain warranty for all Model S electric cars, including ones already on the road.
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To Get Hydrogen Competitive With Gasoline: $1 Billion, Cheap Natural Gas Needed
While battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars have had much of the spotlight to themselves for the past four years, we're going to be hearing a lot more about hydrogen fuel-cell cars over the next few. And a new study just released by the University of California--Davis suggests that we are...
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Chevrolet Volts In Fleet Use: Might As Well Not Have A Plug
Chevy Volt owners, and even Chevrolet itself, are usually quite proud of the amount of miles the range-extended electric car covers on grid electricity. The company said last week that 63 percent of all Volt miles driven have been covered on grid power, totaling more than half a billion miles...
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Glitches Modulate Consumer Reports Praise For Tesla Model S Electric Car
Consumer Reports tallies reliability issues with its 2012 Tesla Model S.
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National 'Drive Electric Week' Planned For September, With 100-Plus Events
National Plug-In Day is now National Drive Electric Week, with the same goal or promoting plug-in cars.
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Income Cap Coming For CA Electric-Car Rebate, Tesla Most Vulnerable?
California may put an income cap on its electric-car tax rebate.
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It's one of the recurring questions asked by electric-car skeptics: Yeah, but what about all those battery packs? Won't they just end up in landfills? We know already that the 12-Volt lead-acid car battery appears to be the most-recycled consumer good in the world--though that's largely for safety reasons, as lead is far more toxic than the materials in lithium-ion batteries. More recently, hybrid car-makers have had programs to take back and safely dispose of used or damaged high-voltage battery packs for 15 years. Those nickel-metal-hydride cells contain precious metals with a known...
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More 'Tesla Truth' Reveals Depths Of Derangement Over Electric-Car Maker
Tesla Motors has existed for more than 10 years now, and it's built and sold more than 50,000 electric cars. It's become a genuine U.S. automaker, albeit a very small one, and it now sells all over the world--and garners more media coverage than its volume alone might warrant. But it still seems to...
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2016 Chevy Volt Coming: A Look Back At GM's Range-Extended Electric Car (News Video)
The Chevy Volt has been on sale for three and a half years now, and it's never quite lived up to the big expectations that GM and the world had for it. But this week, the company confirmed that a new 2016 Volt will debut in January, at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit...
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Tesla Model S Drive-Unit Replacements: How Big A Problem?
It was a car company's worst public-relations nightmare. Edmunds.com, the widely-read automotive website, bought a Tesla Model S for long-term testing in February 2013. After nine months and 11,000 miles, the car developed an ominous grinding noise under acceleration and deceleration. Under...
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Marketing For 2016 Chevy Volt To Be Rethought, Use Owners As Evangelists
It's no secret among owners of the Chevy Volt range-extended electric car that the innovative car's advertising and marketing has been muddled at best. Now, with a new 2016 Volt to be unveiled next January, Chevrolet's recently-arrived global chief marketing officer promises that a thorough...
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2016 Chevrolet Volt To Debut At Detroit Show, First Teaser Photo Released
General Motors confirmed this morning that the revised 2016 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car will be released at next January's Detroit Auto Show. And the company released the first teaser image of the car, showing a more rounded rear to the liftgate of what will likely continue as a...
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The Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car has been around in one form or another for several years now, so there's a lot of information to keep track of. Once simply known as the Mitsubishi 'i', the tiny egg-shaped electric car, with four doors and four seats, has been on sale for several years now U.S. but has never really sold in high volumes. With a starting price of $23,845 before federal and local incentives (and after Mitsubishi's $850 destination and handling fee), the diminutive i-MiEV is one of the cheapest electric cars available. It also carries an EPA rating of 112 MPG equivalent - only...
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Nissan And Mitsubishi To Join Forces On Low-Cost Electric Minicar
Mitsubishi was the earliest maker to launch a modern battery-electric small car and sell it in volume, and Nissan has emerged as by far the world's highest-volume seller of electric cars. Now the two makers have announced they're teaming up to develop an inexpensive electric minicar. According to...
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Tesla Resolves Chinese Trademark Fight 'Completely, Amicably'
Is this the end of Tesla's Chinese trademark battle?
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2015 VW e-Golf, 2016 Audi A3 e-tron Get Carbon Offset Program, Offer Of Home-Solar Systems
Audi and Volkswagen will undertake a carbon offset program to negate emissions.
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The Challenge For Electric-Car Sales Is Car Dealers, Again
Car dealers maximize their profits by selling the highest number of cars at the highest possible prices in the least possible time. Plug-in electric cars are unfamiliar to most buyers, and require more explanation--sometimes a great deal more--along with specific types of support during and after...
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FINAL UPDATE: Plug-In Electric Car Sales In July: Leaf, Volt Both Do Well
Sales of plug-in electric cars in the U.S. continued their rise in July, as Nissan delivered more than 3,000 Leaf battery electric cars and Chevy more than 2,000 Volt range-extended electrics. It's was only the second time that the two cars together have sold more than 5,000 units in a single...
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The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car remains Canada's plug-in sales champion, but the Nissan Leaf battery-electric--the best-selling electric car in history--is coming up fast in its rear-view mirror As consistently as the Toyota Camry tops the U.S. car sales charts, the Chevy Volt leads Canada's plug-in electric vehicle category. Barring a record-breaking month for Tesla, the Volt will settle in at Number One again in July, with 132 sales. Its 963 units this year have now surpassed last year's disappointing number (931), and put it on pace to smash its 2012 tally (1,225). READ...
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When Will Electric Cars Compete in the Mainstream Market?
Electric-car advocates often take it as an article of faith that electric propulsion will one day compete directly with vehicles powered by fossil fuels. Many would go further, arguing that electric cars are already competitive with those using an internal-combustion engine, or ICE, in the consumer...
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CA Tesla Owner Calculates That UberX Is Cheaper Than Electric Car
One owner calculates that he's saving money by leaving his Tesla Roadster parked.
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Tesla: 8,763 Cars Built, 7,579 Sold, 'Potential' Nevada Gigafactory Ground Broken: Q2 Earnings Report
Tesla Motors built 8,763 Model S electric cars and delivered 7,579 of them to customers during the second quarter, according to just-released second-quarter results. It expects to build about 9,000 cars this quarter, and deliver 7,800, largely due to a two-week production shutdown for retooling at...
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2016 Audi A3 e-tron: First Drive
Plug-in hybrids like the 2016 Audi A3 e-tron—especially those with well-tuned responses and zippy performance—are the evangelists that have the best chance of converting the masses to the joys of all-electric motoring. Yes, electric-car fans, please set aside your all-the-way-or-nothing...
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Infiniti LE Electric Luxury Sedan To Be Built After All, With Higher Range
Some vehicles have complex, protracted development histories--and it looks like the Infiniti LE electric luxury sedan may be one of them. Following a period in which its development was suspended by Infiniti's then-CEO Johan de Nysschen (who most recently heads Cadillac), the LE is now back on...
John Voelcker