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Have you ever dreamed about just walking into your local Fisker dealer and ordering a Karma plug-in luxury sport sedan? Very few of us have the funds to afford the $95,900 starting price of a 2012 Fisker Karma, but that doesn't mean we can't imagine doing it. The youngest member of the High Gear Media team, Joel Feder, was lucky enough to walk through part of the ordering process at Borton Fisker of Minneapolis. Watch the video below and imagine yourself at that gigantic flat screen surface, selecting among paint and interior colors ... before you snap back to reality, and head out into the...
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Plan On Crashing Your Plug-In Car? Volvo Will Keep You SafeCars of today are immeasurably safer than those even a decade ago, and manufacturers have been working very carefully to ensure that the different requirements of electric car construction don't mean taking a step back in safety. Volvo has always been known for safety and its plug-in cars are no...
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Want To Know What Life Is Like With An Electric Car? Watch ThisHere at Green Car Reports, we bring you the latest news in the world of green cars, covering everything from cars that get great gas mileage through to hybrids, alternative fuels and of course, plug-in cars. While we can tell you the latest news in the world of plug-in cars as well as share our own...
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2012 Buick Lacrosse eAssist: TV Ad Sells MPGs, Avoids H-Word (Video)The 2012 Buick Lacrosse with eAssist is now beginning to roll into dealerships across the country, and we've been curious to see how GM would market the car. On our preview drive this spring of a prototype Lacrosse with eAssist, we noticed that the dreaded H-word (hybrid) had been virtually...
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Metropolia Electric RaceAbout Sets Nürburgring Electric Car RecordThe Finnish-built Metropolia Electric RaceAbout has cut 25 seconds off its Nordschleife lap time, setting a new record for road-legal electric cars in the process.
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Behind The Disturbing Ad Campaign For The 2012 Toyota PriusTo make its new ad for the 2012 Toyota Prius family, Toyota tapped some of the same talent that made its previous "Harmony" campaign a success. But as intriguing as the behind-the-scenes footage may be, we're not entirely sold on the new "People Person" clip. You might recall that when Toyota...
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A few weeks back we brought you news that a team entered into the famous Cannonball Run, this year held in Ireland, would be doing the trip in a 2011 Nissan Leaf. We missed the end of their journey as the excitement of the Frankfurt Show got in the way, but we're pleased to report the ESB ecars team made it to the finish at Kilkenny with no problems, nestled amongst Ferraris, Corvettes and all manner of other exotica. The route took in more than 600 miles of green Irish countryside and was visited by more than 100,000 spectators. The team's aim was to promote electric car travel in Ireland by...
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2013 Fisker Surf Station Wagon: Teaser Video Copies TeslaIn the automotive world nothing puts a new car in the spotlight faster than a well-edited, cleverly produced commercial. So when the Fisker Automotive, the electric automaker known for using a model in swim-suit and high-heels to sell is 2012 Karma Sedan, announced its 2013 Fisker Surf...
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Jaguar C-X16 Sports Coupe Concept: 'Push-To-Pass' Hybrid (Video)Innumerable design studies for a successor to the legendary E-Type Jaguar may finally have reached their conclusion: Jaguar's C-X16 concept sports coupe seems very likely to be built within a few years as the Jaguar XE. But the "production concept" to be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show next...
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What Will A Formula E Electric Race-Car Look Like? Here’s One Idea (VIDEO)A few weeks ago we told you that the FIA governing body had announced its call for entrants for its new all-electric race car series, Formula E -- and now we’re starting to see interest from potential competitors. Among the first we’ve seen is not a racing team -- but a design for a...
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New Gas-Mileage Window Stickers: DoT Head Ray LaHood Explains Them For You (Video)Starting with the 2013 model year, you will see a new and more informative gas-mileage sticker on the window of new cars for sale. There are several changes, both graphic and informational, that are meant to provide consumers with more information so they can make more informed choices among...
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2011 Chevrolet Volt Enters Palin Country In Alaskan Test-Drive (Video)It may not be available in the northernmost of the 50 states, but the 2011 Chevrolet Volt is no stranger to Alaska. Last winter, a team of engineers from Chevrolet spent many weeks in the frigid north to see how well its range-extended plug-in hybrid would fare with the extreme cold and heavy...
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Were it not for imminent reveals at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show in mid September, you might think the automakers were getting careless with their upcoming models. First, Audi's E1 e-tron was caught on camera in the center of Berlin, being filmed in camoflage for an Audi promotional video. The E1 was then officially revealed in sketch form the very next day. Now, the 2014 BMW i3 electric city car has been spotted rolling silently down Wacker Drive in Chicago, joined by a tracking vehicle filming it for an impending BMW video. Unfortunately it doesn't give us any more idea what the full...
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Secret Tesla Video? Model S Sedan, Roadster Shown On The Road TogetherTesla Motors has now released a few videos (here and here) of the all-electric 2012 Model S sports sedan it plans to launch next year. But we haven't yet seen one showing the Model S driving together with the equally all-electric 2011 Tesla Roadster. That's what the video below shows. According to...
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Audi Trickles Out Urban Concept Info: Now, Content-Free VideoIf you're going to shoot a teaser video of a radical new concept car, maybe it's not such a good idea to do it in a gigantic plaza in the middle of a large European city. Audi has now released the official teaser video (view it at the bottom of this story) for the e-tron Urban Concept vehicle it...
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Is This Audi’s All-Electric City E-Tron? We Think So (Video)Audi might have not chosen the best name for its new range of all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, but it certainly knows how to cause a stir in downtown Berlin. Spotted posing for photographs in the center of Berlin earlier this week is what we can only assume is Audi’s City e-tron...
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Auto X-Prize Runner Up Clocks Faster Time Than Mini E At Nürburgring (Video)It’s almost a year since the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize came to a conclusion, but we’ve heard relatively little from its various winners. Until Now. Enter the Finnish team which came runners up in the Alternative (Side by Side) category with the conventionally-styled...
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Nissan Goes Toyota One Better With Cooler-Looking Cargo Ship (Video)Call it the battle of the clean-car cargo ships. First Toyota retrofitted its Auriga Leader car transporter ship with a diesel hybrid powertrain, allowing some energy to be recaptured in a bank of nickel-metal-hydride batteries just like those used in its Prius and other hybrid cars. That ship got...
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Have a few minutes to kill this Friday? Enjoy online games? Then you might like a walkthrough of Nissan's newest project, a "game-style promotion website" called "The Planet Zero". Nissan's website envisions a planet where everything runs on electricity generated by the sun and wind, and thus, there are no emissions generated from fossil fuels. You play the character of Plug, and by clicking on the planet's surface, you can learn more about the thoroughly green utopia in which he lives. Of course, this is all a branding exercise for Nissan, likely meant to cement the automaker's green...
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Next Fisker Model: Wagon-Crossover At Frankfurt This Fall? (Video)Fisker Automotive still hasn't seen fit to let more than a small handful of journalists drive its extended-range electric 2012 Fisker Karma luxury sports sedan, and not yet on public roads. But founder Henrik Fisker continues to wax eloquent about the company's future plans. At the launch of the...
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First 2012 Fisker Karma Electric Car Delivered, Finally, To Investor Ray LaneAfter multiple delays and slipped deadlines, you might be forgiven for assuming it would never happen. But it did. Fisker Automotive has delivered one of its first production cars, a 2012 Fisker Karma extended-range electric sports sedan, to a paying customer. The video below shows the handover two...
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Even A 3000-MPG Chevy Volt Has To Turn On The Engine SometimesAs Chevrolet very often point outs in marketing its 2011 Volt extended-range electric car, more than 70 percent of U.S. vehicles cover less than 40 miles a day. That means that if you recharge a Volt every night, and cover less than that distance daily, your car might never, ever need to switch on...
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2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid: New Style, Same Old Hybrid SystemSometimes, you find information in the strangest places. Take the YouTube video, "Georgetown Plant on the 2012 Camry," apparently posted by Toyota of the Black Hills, a dealer in Rapid City, South Dakota. It's got some shots of the newly redesigned 2012 Toyota Camry moving down the production line...
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Nissan Turns Us On With ESFlow In TV Ad; Will They Build It?Has Nissan subtly told us that the ESFlow is just over the horizon for actual production?
George Parrott