plug-in cars
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Plug-in electric vehicle sales in Canada rose by half in 2013, with sales poised to top 3,000 units once end-of-year vehicle registration data arrives. This is a year-over-year improvement of more than 50 percent on 2012's total Canadian sales of plug-in cars, helping their share of new-car sales rise from 0.12 to 0.18 percent. That compares--poorly--to a market share of about 0.6 percent in the United States last year. MORE: FINAL UPDATE: U.S. Plug-In Electric Car Sales For 2013 Near Double Previous Year's The U.S. market itself is split between California, where electric vehicles have...
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Tesla Recall: Over-The-Air Updates, NEMA Connectors, And More
Every carmaker puts its own interpretation on news, especially at Detroit Auto Show. So it's reasonable for Tesla Motors to cast an NHTSA recall yesterday as an example of its ability to respond swiftly and effectively to update its Model S electric car to make the customer experience even better...
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Value Of Bankrupt Fisker Soars From $25 Million To $55 Million With New Bid
Hybrid Technology Holdings raised its bid for Fisker Automotive, and announced plans to build cars in Delaware.
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Bankruptcy Judge Orders Remains Of Fisker Auto To Be Auctioned
After a last-minute bid by Chinese auto-parts giant Wanxiang, Fisker's remains will go to public auction.
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Electric-Car Market Share In 2013: Understanding The Numbers Better
Last year, the 96,000 plug-in electric cars sold in the U.S. represented a bit more than half a percent of the total market of 16.5 million vehicles. Market share is a good statistic: It's useful, and easy to track. But we need to piece together the relationships between vehicle price, type, and...
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Tesla To Upgrade Electric-Car Wall Chargers For Further Fire Protection
Tesla will follow up a December software update with upgraded charger connectors to prevent overheating.
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An Instagram user spotted a 2015 Tesla Model X prototype on public roads near the company's design center.
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With Demand Soaring, Nissan Leaf U.S. Production Could Double This Year
With the 2014 Nissan Leaf going on sale this week and next, Nissan is poised to expand production and dramatically boost sales of its U.S.-built battery-electric hatchback. And if its CEO has his way, sales will double in 2014, from the 22,610 Leafs delivered in 2013 to 40,000 or more, perhaps as...
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Tesla Supercharger Quick Charging Stations Expand Beyond Coasts
The first Tesla Supercharger station in Wyoming is open.
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2014 Nissan Leaf Electric Car: 84-Mile Range, RearView Monitor Standard
The 2014 Nissan Leaf is now rolling off the assembly lines in Tennessee, and the first examples should arrive at dealerships this week or next. Now, after a long wait, we have information on the updates to the electric car for the new model year. Rated range rises to 84 miles Most importantly to...
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Plug-In Electric Car Incentives Not Working? Report Slams 'Mainstream Market Bias'
A new paper argues that U.S. electric-car incentives are too focused on converting mainstream car buyers.
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Should GM Buy Tesla? What Would Be The Pros And Cons?
The suggestion hit the day before Christmas: Analyst Yra Harris of Praxis Trading predicted in a CNBC interview that General Motors might buy Tesla Motors sometime in 2014. Harris called it "a perfect fit" for one of the three largest carmakers in the world to buy the closely-watched Silicon Valley...
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Electric cars are quiet. Perhaps that's a statement of the obvious, but for many owners, it's one of their cars' best features. Little noise, a smooth drivetrain, low running costs, environmental responsibility--it all adds up to an appealing package. Regulatory bodies seem to feel electric cars are a little too quiet, though, posing a danger to pedestrians. As a result, several are in the process of drawing up legislation that will require car companies to add noisemakers to electric vehicles--to warn those around them who expect a vehicle to be audible of their presence. But if one thing is...
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FINAL UPDATE: Plug-In Electric Car Sales For 2013 Near Double Previous Year's
In their third full year of sales, more plug-in electric cars were sold in the U.S. than ever before. The 2013 total of roughly 96,000 90,000 electric vehicles didn't quite double the 2012 total of about 53,000, but with 16 different plug-in cars offered for sale as of this month, the numbers seem...
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Future Electric Utility Trucks: Lighting Your Home While Crews Restore Power
As weather-related power outages left hundreds of thousands without electricity during the holiday season, attention has once again turned to the role of electric vehicles in providing backup power when the lights go out. While running down your vehicle to keep your house warm could never be...
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Electric Cars To Replace NYC's Iconic Horse-Drawn Carriages, New Mayor Says
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio belives the horse-drawn carriages are "inhumane."
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2013 Tesla Model S Electric Car: Consumer Reports Still In Love
After a year of driving, Consumer Reports is still enamored with the Tesla Model S.
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Fisker Fate Up In Air After Last-Minute Bid; Founders Sued As Well
A flurry of last-minute legal moves puts the fate of bankrupt electric-car maker Fisker Automotive up in the air again.
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Two new studies suggest unorthodox ways to improve the efficiency of solar panels.
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One Ford F-150 Pickup Driver Profile--Why He Likes Electric Cars
As we noted in our roundup of most popular stories last year, the topic of covering pickup trucks turned controversial on Green Car Reports this year. It started with a story on how what technologies we expect to be used for the 2015 Ford F-150 to boost its fuel economy from the current 18 mpg...
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As Battery Cost Falls, Fast-Charging Becomes Key Electric-Car Issue
It's a given that the costs of batteries for electric cars will fall in the coming years. The industry hotly debates how much and how fast--after interviewing numerous auto and battery engineers, our figure is around 7 percent a year--but by 2020 or so, costs may be as low as half what they were in...
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Norway's Electric Cars: Already Too Popular?
Norway's electric-car incentives may be victims of their own success.
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Actress Anne Hathaway Is NOT The First 2014 BMW i3 Owner In The U.S.
Sometimes the media don't quite know what they're talking about. And so it was with a story that had actress Anne Hathaway importing one of the first 2014 BMW i3 electric cars from Germany for her husband because she didn't want to wait for it to go on sale in the U.S. next spring. The story, which...
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Hydrogen As Electric-Car Range Extender? French Tests Start Soon
Hydrogen fuel cells have often been viewed as alternatives to large battery packs for powering electric vehicles. But what if a small hydrogen fuel cell could be used in a battery-electric vehicle--solely as a range extender? The French postal service, La Poste, is about to test that concept in...
John Voelcker