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It's almost an article of faith in the auto industry that electric cars will require huge subsidies in their initial years. Certainly Toyota is widely assumed to have put tens of billions of dollars into its hybrid-electric vehicle program before it started to cover its costs. Never shy of taking a different tack, Nissan has now said it expects to make money on the first generation of its 2011 Leaf electric car. The Leaf's lithium-ion battery pack gives it a range of up to 100 miles, and unlike the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, it has no range-extending engine. Mark Perry, Nissan North America's...
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Chinese Electric Carmaker BYD Loves LA Too, For U.S. OfficesWhile Chinese car company BYD exhibited its E6 all-electric crossover at the Detroit Auto Show last January, they've otherwise been fairly quite of late. Now comes word that the company has chosen downtown Los Angeles as the location for its U.S. headquarters. Friday, California governor Arnold...
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California Bill Seeks To Legalize Sharing Your Car For Cash
Ever loan your car to a friend for a day in exchange for a few bucks? Soon, that may not void your insurance and make you a criminal. At least in California. State Assemblymember Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) has introduced a bill (AB 1871) that would amend the state's insurance laws by allowing...
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Volkswagen Golf Blue-E-Motion Previews Future EV
Volkswagen is intent on becoming the world’s leading automaker by 2018 and that means being the top dog in every segment, including hybrid and electric vehicles. Recently the automaker announced plans to start building its own electric powertrains, and now it has unveiled the all-new Golf...
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Mazda Granted Patent For Offset Wheel-Mounted Motor
For years Mazda remained adamant that diesel and advanced gasoline engines would be enough to satisfy its needs for more fuel-efficient cars, but last year, in a major shift in strategy, the automaker decided it would follow the crowd and embrace hybrids and electric powertrains. The change in...
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All-Wheel Drive And Crossovers In The Pipeline For Tesla
Tesla has hinted on several occasions in the past that it wants to expand its range of vehicles beyond the current Roadster and upcoming Model S sedan in the very near future. The CEO of the electric car start-up, Elon Musk, has now reaffirmed his company’s plans to do just that, by revealing...
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Rumors are flying that Nissan is preparing a subcompact electric vehicle to compete directly with cars like the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, and it may even be made in China. The rumors are unconfirmed: word of mouth from inside a partner company of Nissan. But given the number of pre-launch reservations for the 2011 Nissan Leaf EV--combined with Nissan's long history of EV development--a new, smaller EV could be just what Nissan needs to become the market leader. Nissan have been making electric cars for many years. Their first EV was produced between 1947 and 1950 and called the Tama; it was...
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Fiat 500 Celebrates 500,000th Vehicle And Lets You Join In
Fiat Makes Another Historical Marker With Their Diminutive Car
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Friday Night Video: What Happens When a Toyota iQ and St. Bernard Meet?
Proof That Small Cars Can Still Carry Large Loads
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Atomik Makes Electric Supercar Out Of Fiat Abarth 500
Dual Motors, Instant Torque And Tons Of Fun
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Buick Has New Small Car And Crossover Up Their Sleeve
More Game Changing Moves Buick That Could Give the Brand Youth
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2011 Suzuki SX4: They Will Fill Your Tank If You Buy One
Will Gas Money Help Increase Suzuki’s Market Share
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Another Redesigned Hyundai Debuts Overseas
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The Chevy Volt's Japanese Ancestor. From 1993. From Daihatsu!
Everything old is new again. Or so goes the saying. While the 2011 Chevrolet Volt will be the first electric vehicle with a range-extending engine to be built in volume (the first pre-production Volt rolled off the line on March 31), it's hardly the first one ever. We'll ignore for a moment the...
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VIDEO: Driving Tips For Hybrid Cars (Toyota Prius Included)
Do you know when to accelerate your Prius "as though there's an eggshell between your foot and the pedal," and when to move away briskly? If you do, you may already be an experienced Prius driver. If not, we have just the video for you. In less than four minutes, our editor goes through some of the...
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VIDEO: Five Things About Hybrid Cars That You Should Know
Do you know the difference between a mild hybrid like a 2010 Honda Insight, and a full hybrid like the 2010 Toyota Prius? Or what happens to all hybrid vehicles when the weather gets cold? If you do, you're probably well versed in green cars, and you may already be a hybrid vehicle owner. If not...
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Tesla Outlines Production Details For 2012 Model S
Tesla's first all-original car, the upcoming Model S sedan, is already on pre-order sale and should be launched by late 2011 if there aren’t any major development stumbles. In the lead up to its showroom appearance, Tesla has revealed an expected price tag for the Model S of $49,900 and confirmed...
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Hyundai is working on a brand new generation of its Elantra sedan that’s due to go on sale later this year as a 2011 model, but we can already get a look at the new car thanks to the unveiling of its South Korean cousin, the Avante, at the 2010 Busan Auto Show this week. With sportier and even more elegant lines than its predecessor, the new Elantra features a design shared with the 2011 Hyundai Sonata and dominated by a coupe-like profile with tapered back headlights. Premium features fitted on the Avante model include HID headlights, heated seats and a color LCD nestled in the instrument...
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GE, Nissan Join Forces To Ready the Grid For Electric Cars
This story, written by Camille Ricketts, was originally posted on VentureBeat's GreenBeat, an editorial partner of AllCarsElectric. Nissan continues to beat the electric car drum. Last week, it started taking reservations for its all-electric Leaf, and beat its own expectations with more than 6,600...
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We appreciate our readers, each and every one of you. And we want to make it as easy as possible for you to access AllCarElectric.com. So when our reader Peter Mac, in Spain, wrote to us this morning to ask if he could have ACE delivered via e-mail, rather than using an RSS reader, we said, "Sure!"...
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2010 Beijing Motor Show: SAIC Roewe E1 Electric Mini-Car
Sadly, we weren't able to cover the Beijing Motor Show, which opened last week. It's too bad, too, because China is on track to become the world's largest single car market, its fuel efficiency regulations are far tougher than those of the U.S., and its industrial policy for the auto sector focuses...
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Volkswagen: Natural Gas Is Just As Good For Racing As Diesel
A couple of months ago, we told you about Volkswagen's 2010 Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition, a specially trimmed version of its clean-diesel Jetta sedan that commemorates the TDI Cup racing series, now in its third season. But VW has other green racing activities elsewhere too. Our sister site Motor...
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Better Place Launches Battery-Swap Test In Four Tokyo Taxis
This past Monday, the electric-vehicle infrastructure provider Better Place held a press conference in Tokyo at the site of its first completed battery-swap station to be put into regular usage, in the Ropongi Hills area. Together with Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo's largest taxi company, the company will...
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