Canada
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With Chevrolet on track to complete its rollout of the 2011 Volt range-extended electric car to all 50 states by the end of this year, the carmaker is turning its sites to other countries. And it's starting next door in one of the two closest foreign countries to the U.S., one right on our border. No, not Mexico. It's Canada. Remember, the very large country of 34 million just north of here? Chevrolet announced yesterday that certain Chevy dealerships in Canada are now taking orders for the 2012 Volt. It will be priced (in Canadian dollars) at $41,545, or about $43,740 at today's exchange...
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Ouch! Honda Yanks Civic Hybrid AND Insight Off Sale In Canada
[UPDATE: Honda Canada later clarified to Autoblog Green that it was not removing the cars from sale, but merely selling down available stocks, and that it would order more units from Japan when and if customer sales actually depleted its supplies of either model.] As early as last year's U.S. sales...
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Electric Pot Car From Canada Creates Big Bong In EV World
As we're faced with an increasingly large world population and ever-dwindling resources the race is on to produce cars that not only produce zero tailpipe emissions, but ones that are green to manufacture too. But what is the ultimate material for cars? Steel is strong, but hardly light enough to...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield