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An electric car built by Swiss students set a world acceleration record.
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Autopilot drives Tesla Model S Electric Car Coast-To-Coast (More Or Less)A team takes an Autopilot-equipped Tesla Model S on a cross-country drive.
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Most-Electric-Vehicles Record Broken Again: 507 in Stuttgart
The record for most electric vehicles in one place was broken again, this time in Germany.
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New World Record In Canada: 431 Plug-In Electric Vehicles In One Place
It appears that a Québec electric-car group has set a new world record for plug-in electric cars gathered in one place. Yesterday, 431 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars gathered in a long parking lot on the Île Sainte-Hélène, just south of the Jacques Cartier...
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Most Electric Cars Ever? Guinness World Record Try In Montreal Next Month
A Canadian group hopes to set the record for largest electric-car parade.
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'World Record Drive' Around EU Draws 388 Electric Cars
What do you call 388 electric cars and bikes driving from Vienna in Austria to Geneva in Switzerland? Answer: A world record. No, it's not funny, but then it wasn't a joke. Called WAVE 2013 (World Advanced Vehicle Expedition), a parade of hundreds of electric cars traveled between the two European...
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Agroup of Nissan Leaf owners from around the United Kingdom have broken the world record for the 'largest parade of electric vehicles'. With 225 Nissan Leafs and an overcast, wet Silverstone race circuit, a parade of 225 cars broke the previous record, held by Chrysler with 218 vehicles. Nissan UK organized the event to help drivers share ownership experiences, and to gather information on how they use their cars. Among the drivers was actor, TV presenter, electric car advocate and one-time GreenCarReports contributor Robert Llewellyn, who described the view as "the oddest electric car sight...
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High MPG Meets 16 Passengers In Latest Volkswagen Publicity Stunt
Producing a vehicle that can accommodate a high number of passengers whilst retaining great gas mileage is becoming a much-prized target in the automakers, with increasingly clever methods being used to squeeze high gas mileage out of mid to large-sized cars, minivans and SUVs. Cramming 16 people...
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Homebrew 6-HP Motorcycle Sets Biodiesel World Speed Record
Combine a whole bunch of parts from motorcycles, go-karts, industrial machinery, and even generators, and what do you get? In John Petsche's case, he not only built a motorcycle that runs on store-bought vegetable oil, he managed to take home a world speed record for the 350cc Alternate Fuel class...
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Electric Car Revenge is Sweet in Amsterdam With 100 Nissan Leafs
The Amsterdam premiere of the move "Revenge of the Electric Car" is expected to attract fully 100 Nissan Leaf electric cars from all over Europe.
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Nissan Leaf Fails To Attempt Backwards Hillclimb Record
Last week we told you about Nissan’s plans to break some novel world records at the world-famous 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Unlike some of the other competitors there who sought the fastest time driving forwards up the twisty 1.16 mile course, Nissan had planned to have British stunt...
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347.2 Miles! Tesla Takes New Production Car Distance Record
Many of us will have broken in the New Year celebrating with friends, sinking a few drinks, watching a firework display and generally being merry. For some though, the celebrations will have come later that day. Between the afternoon of December 31, 2010 and the end of January 1, 2011, Team VIN...
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We all know that battery packs are the weakest link in electric vehicles. Not only are they heavy and expensive, but they take a long time to recharge and on average can only provide around 100 miles per charge. A German-based company has changed all that with a new vehicle capable of driving up to 375 miles at moderate highway speeds. That’s roughly the equivalent of driving from Santa Barbara, CA to the Hoover Dam, without a recharge. It doesn’t end there. The company responsible for the battery pack, DBM Energy, claims a battery pack efficiency of 97 percent and a recharge time...
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World-Record Gas-Mileage Champ For Sale, From 1959, For $425K. Ahem.
It's the Friday before a long holiday, which means most of you aren't around to read this. But for those who are, here's our bit of green-car randomness to launch the Independence Day celebrations. How would you like to own a semi-derelict, half-century-old, very odd-looking German car that holds a...
John Voelcker
