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Attendees in over 100 cities got to know electric cars as part of the third National Plug-In Day.
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Tesla Model S Was Best-Selling Car In Norway For September
Well, here's a first: The best-selling car in Norway is the Tesla Model S. Not the best-selling electric car. Not the best-selling car with a plug. For the month of September, the Tesla Model S was the best-selling car, period. Silicon Valley startup electric-car maker Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] sold...
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PlugShare Debuts Cellphone Payments For Electric-Car Charging
Recargo, the company that owns the PlugShare app for locating electric-car charging stations, launched a new way to pay for charging today. Its "Pay With PlugShare" program gives its users the ability to transact a charging session using only their smartphones. The app lets electric-car drivers...
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Palo Alto To Require Electric-Car Charger Wiring In New Homes
With most electric-car charging today taking place in the garages of private homes, installing a home charging station can pose a hurdle to potential buyers. Now Palo Alto, California--the city in the center of Silicon Valley--is moving to make it easier for homeowners who want to switch to an...
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Can 2014 Cadillac ELR Electric Car Rescue GM's Luxury Brand In California?
The ELR's plug-in powertrain and unique styling could be the right combination for success in the Golden State.
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2013 Toyota RAV4 EV Ads: Narrow Focus To Reach Electric-Car Buyers
Ads for the RAV4 EV will target specific, tech-savvy buyers in the California cities where the car is sold.
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The development of the Chevrolet Volt is now the subject of a 29-page academic paper.
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Update: 93 Cities Taking Part In Sunday's National Plug-In Day
The third National Plug-In Day will be the biggest ever, organizers say.
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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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China Adds More Electric-Car Subsidies, Still Ignores Hybrids
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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The question isn't, "Why electric?" It's, "Why gas?" And with those eight words, Nissan marketers crossed a line that no other established carmaker has dared to cross. In a 20-second ad for the 2013 Nissan Leaf electric car now running on television--you may already have seen it--Nissan said it out loud, or at least hinted it: Electric cars are better and nicer than gasoline cars. We couldn't find the ad on Nissan's YouTube channel, but you can view it by clicking the link below. VIEW AD: Click here And "better" and "nicer" are values that everyone can connect to, no matter what their varied...
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Third National Plug-In Day & Weekend Coming Sept 28-29
For the third year in a row, plug-in cars drivers and advocates will turn out to promote electric driving and educate potential buyers.
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Chevy Volt's Next Range Extender: New Opel 1.0-Liter Three-Cylinder Engine?
It's been rumored for a while that the next-generation Chevy Volt electric car would get a new, smaller, three-cylinder engine as a range extender. Now we've seen what that engine could be, in the guise of a 1.0-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine unveiled by GM's German arm, Opel, at this...
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Coal Makes Electric Cars Bad? No, Plug-Ins Show Coal As Bad
Every so often, electric-car skeptics will attack the idea of using grid electricity to power a car by bringing up coal. "Yeah," the argument goes, "but you're just burning coal instead of gasoline in your electric car--so how's that any better?" There is, of course, a fair amount of science that...
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Signed Offer For Fisker Automotive Sent To Energy Department
The fate of Fisker Automotive has been hanging for months, but now an offer for the company has been "signed" and is "on the table." At least that's the word from Ingo Voigt, who with Fritz Nol is one of a pair of German investors who want to buy the company. "I am proud to tell you that we just...
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Volkswagen e-Golf Electric Car Live Gallery: 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show
The Volkswagen e-Golf is exactly what it sounds like: and electric version of VW's evergreen Golf hatchback. Debuting at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, it brings the German carmaker into the electric car arena.
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