road trips
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Remember the team of fresh-faced engineering students from London’s Imperial College Of Engineering who decided to embark on an almost impossible trek along the World’s longest road in an electric car best suited to the race-track? Back in June our John Voelcker met the team and described the event as a “quixotic venture”. 110 days into the trip the team had hoped would take them just 84, the young adventurers are wiser, more focused than ever and ever-so-slightly tired. While the team managed the trip from Alaska to the Mexican border in just 37 days, the remaining...
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Tata Nano, World's Cheapest Car, Aces Indian Endurance Test
We've always had a soft spot in our heart for the tiny Tata Nano, the world's least expensive car and India's equivalent of the Ford Model T that put the U.S. on wheels a century earlier. The Nano may or may not ever be sold in the United States, though Tata says a revised version will be offered...
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Five Questions: Jon Azrielant, Project EViE Executive Director
A perceived lack of sex appeal may prevent some buyers from considering the electric cars that will soon go on sale, but it's range anxiety--the fear of what happens when you run out of juice--that really give people pause. What's needed is a stunt, something that could convince buyers that...
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All-Electric Roadtrip From LA to Detroit? No Problem, Says Tesla
As we've noted elsewhere, we write a lot about Tesla. We certainly give them more ink...errr, electrons?...than their share of the sports car market, since they're just delivered their 900th Roadster. Not that they're not wildly fun to drive, mind you. But despite early engineering difficulties...
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Gas Mileage Tips Courtesy Of, Ummmm, ExxonMobil
Press releases are part of every journalist's life. Most of them get scanned or ditched. Once in a while, we put them aside for future reference. Really awful ones get forwarded around with snarky comments. But occasionally there's good info in them. Here, for instance, are five very basic...
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