plug-in cars
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Hundreds of owners and fans alike turned up for the opening of a new Tesla Store in Palo Alto, California, this past Saturday. They weren't all there just to see the store, though. Many focused on the store's centerpiece--the latest prototype of the Tesla Model X crossover, the next car in Tesla Motors' product plans. Reaction, says the San Jose Mercury News, was positive, and the sleek crossover won plenty of fans for its design and interior. It's a design and interior we've seen before; the prototype appears unchanged from the model we saw at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year. That...
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What Do You Want To Know About The 2014 BMW i3 Electric Car?
The 2014 BMW i3 electric car is one of the most radical new vehicles on the planet. And the innovation comes in many different facets of the car. There's its shape, which is tall and somewhat van-like--unusual for a BMW. Its styling introduces a new design language for BMW's 'i' series of plug-in...
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Giving Thanks (In Canada) for Electric-Car Charging On Roads
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving, though the country's electric vehicle enthusiasts could be forgiven a bit of pessimism. Plug-in car adoption has been slower than expected, and support seems unlikely from a federal government that has reshaped the country from mild, modest milquetoast to combative...
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Ford To Partner With University Of Michigan On Electric-Car Battery Lab
To launch its Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, General Motors chose to build and expand its very own battery lab. Crosstown rival Ford is taking a different route. According to the Detroit News, it will partner with the University of Michigan by helping to fund a laboratory where car...
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Should Public Quick-Charging Be A Marketing Cost For Businesses?
Every so often, stories appear about new networks of charging stations for electric cars that have just opened. But if there's no business model to support public charging stations over the long term, who's going to pay for that infrastructure in the future? One possibility, observers suggest, is...
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Got A Blink Charging Station? ChargePoint Offers Up To $2,200 For You To Switch
Last month, Ecotality became the latest green company to fall foul of the tricky emerging market when it filed for bankruptcy. It leaves customers of its Blink network of charging stations--and indeed, owners of businesses who had them installed--unsure as to what their next step should be. For the...
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The Tesla Model S all-electric luxury sedan is now close to ubiquitous on the streets of Silicon Valley. But you might not expect to see one walking into a building. Or at least part of one. But the side of a Model S, used as the front of a receptionist's desk--compete with two Tesla front seats--is what greets visitors to the Draper University Hero City in San Mateo, California. Those visitors will already have passed through doors flanked by photos of two of the Valley's most famous recent entrepreneurs, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. ALSO READ: 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid...
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Personalize Your GE Electric-Car Charging Station? Custom Skins Now Available
Electric-car charging station owners can now personalize their appliances with custom skins from Gelaskins.
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2014 Cadillac ELR Priced At $75,995, In Showrooms By January
The 2014 Cadillac ELR will hit showrooms in January with a base price of $75,995.
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Life With Tesla Model S: Pushing the Range Limits In 60-kWh Car
In the eight months I've owned my 60-kWh Tesla Model S, I've never had occasion to drive it more than 120 miles, comfortably within the car's EPA-rated 208-mile range. The phrase "range anxiety" was not in my lexicon. But last week, I got an invitation from Don Sherman, Technical Director of Car...
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Nissan Offers $15,000 For New Electric-Car Quick Chargers By Dec 31
With the long-term business model for public charging stations increasingly unclear, at least one carmaker beyond Tesla is boosting its efforts to promote the rollout of quick-charging stations for electric cars. Nissan's EV Advantage program offers $10,000 to companies, groups, and others who...
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Electric Cars Can Now Travel From Montreal To Detroit Via Sun Country Charging Stations
Sun Country is unveiling a network of electric-car charging stations running along Highway 401 from Montreal to Detroit.
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The 2014 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is the latest of many plug-in cars to get a price cut.
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2014 BMW i3 With Range Extender Priced At $46,125, Or $3,850 More
Adding the small range-extending engine to the 2014 BMW i3 battery-electric minicar will increase the price by $3,950, the company announced this evening. The standard 2014 BMW i3 electric car starts at $42,275 including delivery, before any Federal, state, or local incentives. BMW had announced...
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GM EV1 & Tesla Model S: Looking At 20 Years Of Electric Cars
Last week, we were struck by a single photo that captured electric cars across two decades. The image, showing a GM EV1 and a Tesla Model S on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute campus, was posted on Facebook by Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA]. More than anything we've seen in a while, that photo showed...
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Three Years With The First Nissan Leaf Electric Car Sold In The U.S.
The first person to take delivery of a Nissan Leaf electric car still enjoys it 30,000 miles later.
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Is There Any Business Model For Public Electric-Car Charging? Plug-In 2013 Report
Suppose there's no way for businesses to make money on public electric-car charging stations--even with DC quick-charging? Then what? That was one sobering question that came up during the Plug-In 2013 conference, held in San Diego last Monday through Thursday. Almost three years after the first...
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Owner Of Tesla Model S That Burned Still Loves Car, Will Buy Another
Tesla Motors is responding to media coverage of the first Model S fire with information and a testimonial from the car's owner.
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Tesla Model S drivers will be able to access the network of CHAdeMo quick-charging stations with the new adaptor.
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2015 Kia Soul EV To Be Sold In U.S.: First Korean Electric Car
We saw the Kia Soul EV spy shots almost three months ago, and now Kia has officially announced that its first battery-electric car will go on sale in the U.S. next year. It's an electric conversion of the new-for-2014 second generation of its "funky and iconic" Soul tall wagon, which Kia calls an...
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First Tesla Model S Fire Caused By Collision With Road Debris
It had to happen sooner or later: a fire in a Tesla Model S. And indeed, as first covered by Jalopnik, Tuesday's fire in one example of the luxury electric sedan outside Seattle, Washington, generated a remarkable amount of media coverage. Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] issued a statement on the accident...
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First Car Sold With CCS Fast Charging Now Delayed To December
GM has pushed back the CCS fast-charging option on the Chevrolet Spark EV until the end of the year.
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Electric-Car 0-To-60-MPH Record Smashed--By Dutch Students
A team of students from the Delft University of Technology built an electric car than can out accelerate all others.
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FINAL UPDATE: Plug-In Electric Car Sales For Sept: Sales Slacken After Aug Record
After a record-setting month in August, plug-in electric car sales moderated in September while the overall U.S. vehicle market surged. The Chevrolet Volt, the best-selling plug-in car after almost three years, registered 1,766 deliveries--little more than half the record-setting number of 3,351...
John Voelcker