Arizona
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Lucid Motors will build its electric-car factory in Arizona.
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Now You Can Ride An All-Electric Raft Down The Colorado River
A tour operator plans to launch an all-electric raft this spring.
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Innovative Arizona Utility Program Rents Your Roof For Solar Power
An Arizona utility will rent customers' roof to install solar panels.
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Carbon-Negative Replacement For Cement Traps CO2 During Manufacturing
An inventor pitches his iron-based material as an alternative to cement-based concrete.
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Tesla Vs Franchised Car Dealers In Texas, Arizona: Battles Continue
Debate over Tesla direct sales is re-sparked in Arizona and Texas.
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Good News For Tesla: AZ Bill Would Legalize Direct Sales As State Angles For Gigafactory
When the possibility of new jobs clashes with the desires of powerful campaign contributors, sometimes jobs can take priority. That may be what's happening in Arizona, where a new bill in the state legislature would legalize the direct-sales model of electric-car maker Tesla Motors--to the intense...
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Some electric car makers, notably Nissan with its Leaf, make recommendations that owners don't charge too frequently using quick-charging stations. The belief is that the chemical processes involved in rapidly charging a battery can lead it to degrade faster than regular charges, reducing range. ALSO SEE: How Lithium-Ion Batteries Age: Scientists Offer Insight But is that really the case? One ongoing experiment in Phoenix, Arizona, suggests it might not be--and that overall mileage could be more important. The Idaho National Laboratory (via Simanaitis Says) is currently evaluating four Nissan...
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Tucson Wants Tesla Gigafactory, Gives Formal Proposal To Electric-Car Maker
Tucson wants to be the home of Tesla Motors' massive lithium-ion battery cell factory.
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Dumb Laws From States Banning Tesla Sales
Those states that ban electric-car startup Tesla Motors from opening stores and selling cars online--including Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and Virginia--turn out to have a bunch of other really dumb laws on their books too.
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August Electric Vehicle Meet In CA: Batteries Only (No Volts Allowed)
This August, a group of electric vehicle drivers will travel from Mexico to Canada up the West Coast as part of the BC2BC annual all-electric vehicle rally. To celebrate, the meet will bring together electric vehicles in Long Beach, California, to form the world's largest electric vehicle...
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Despite AZ Woes, Most Nissan Leaf Batteries Fine, Survey Shows
Last summer wasn't easy for Nissan or its electric car, the Leaf. A spate of owners in Arizona discovered they were quickly losing battery capacity, far earlier than Nissan suggested it might happen--the hot climate was playing havoc with battery life. Luckily for worried Leaf owners, those...
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Nissan Buys Back Leaf Electric Cars Under Arizona Lemon Law
Yesterday, a local news station in Phoenix, Arizona, confirmed that Nissan has agreed to buy back wilting Leaf electric cars from their owners under the state’s Lemon Law. The news comes less than a week after Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s product planning and advanced technology...
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It’s been six days since results of an independent test were published showing that Nissan Leaf electric cars in hot climates were suffering from premature range loss, and four days since Nissan responded, saying the high mileage of affected cars was to blame. Since then, we’ve been keeping track of your comments, and the comments of concerned Leaf owners as they try to decide the next stage in this ongoing saga. The general consensus among affected owners? Nissan needs to try harder. Disbelief, frustration Nissan’s most recent statement on the issue, made by Mark Perry...
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Nissan Suggests Leaf Battery-Capacity Loss Due To High Miles: Exclusive
It's been a few months now since reports of losses in battery capacity in Nissan Leaf electric cars began to filter out of Arizona. Owners have complained to Nissan's Consumer Affairs group and written hundreds of posts on owner forums. In July, Nissan Americas took seven different Leafs in for a...
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Nissan's Mark Perry: We're Investigating Arizona's Wilting Leafs
More than two months after a few Nissan Leafs in Arizona began to lose capacity bars in the extreme heat and suffer premature battery aging, Nissan has started formal investigations into the issue. While being interviewed over the telephone by Arizona’s KPHO 5 station in Phoenix, Mark Perry...
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More Nissan Leaf Battery Loss, Nissan Doesn’t Blink
Last week, Nissan gave an official response to the handful of Arizona drivers of its 2011 Leaf electric car that had experienced the first signs of battery capacity loss. A week on, with more reports from owners claiming a lost battery capacity bar and in two instances, two capacity bars, Nissan...
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Arizona Considers Charging Electric Cars Tax At 1.43¢ Per Mile
For many years, Arizona was considered an electric-car friendly state, thanks to California-style tailpipe emissions and mandates which required automakers to sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions cars in order to sell in the state. But less than a month after the Arizona Governor’s...
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Arizona Dumps Stricter CA Emissions Standards Over Electric-Car Rules
California has always led the nation in mandating reduction of tailpipe emissions and development of low- and zero-emission vehicles. For several years now, states have had the option of adopting stricter California vehicle-emissions regulations or sticking with the national standards. Roughly a...
John Voelcker