Jon Vandervelde, Contributing Writer
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German firm Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr (IAV) is working on technology to fit roads with embedded induction-loops that will remotely “refuel” electric cars while they are driving or...
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First Plug-In Hybrid To Actually Be Sold In The U.S. Will Be Italian Scooter
Piaggio MP3 Hybrid Gets 141 MPG On Three Wheels
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Mitsubishi i-MiEV Cargo Concept Close To Production
Mitsubishi is introducing two new concept vehicles at the 41st Tokyo Motor show this month but of the two, it's only for the i-MiEV CARGO that the company is actually taking orders. Both concepts, the PX-MiEV hybrid crossover, and the i-MiEV CARGO are derived from the company's i-MiEV electric...
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Mitsubishi To Introduce New Crossover-Hybrid At Tokyo Motor Show
Mitsubishi, still scrambling to catch up to its rivals in the race for clean power-train technology, will be introducing the PX-MiEV hybrid crossover concept-car at next month's Tokyo auto-show. Like all Mistubishi's show cars this year, the PX-MiEV is derived from the production i-MiEV...
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Algae-fueled Hybrid Car Drives Coast To Coast On 25 Gallons Of Fuel
As part of his campaign to promote alternative fuels (and his movie Fuel which addresses the subject) documentary film maker Josh Ticknell has just finished a ten-day drive from L.A. to New York in the world's only algae fueled plug-in hybrid vehicle. This modified Toyota Prius, called the...
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Researchers at Stanford University in the United States and Hanyang University in Korea, have shown that replacing the conventional graphite electrodes in lithium-ion batteries with silicon...
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Citroen Introduces Outre' Plug-In Hybrid Concept Car At Frankfurt
The unfortunately Named REVOLTe is Said To Be Inspired By The Classic 2CV
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Mission Motorcycles Sets Electric Land Speed Record
Fastest electric production bike
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Newly Discovered Substance May Mean Cheaper Li Ion Batteries
In their current form Lithium Ion batteries, the power source of choice for the next wave of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, contain small amounts of extremely expensive rare-earth metals or fire-prone carbon-based materials as a necessary part of their electrode's formulation. Researchers...
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Rolls Royce Electric Car On The Way?
Electric Rolls Royce Phantom May be In the Works
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No Looming Lithium Shortage For EV's
Experts Agree No Lithium Shortage For 10 Years, Probably Longer
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Electric and Hybrid Cars are lauded for their ability to operate while producing far less pollution than their internal combustion cousins, but for some their lack of noise pollution has actually...
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Peugeot Shows Micro-Sized Electric Car at Frankfurt
Motorcycle Inspired EV Seats Four
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Global Green Cars Announces New Kentucky Production Plant
Global Green Cars, a partially owned subsidiary of Utah based Green Star Products, recently announced plans to move its operations to Williamsburg Kentucky from the current location in Idaho. The company reportedly plans on completing the transition of its personnel and operations by October...
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Fisker About To Announce $39K Plug-In Hybrid?
Ray Lane, whose venture capital firm is a major investor in Fisker automotive, let slip on Tuesday that Fisker is gearing up to announce a new, $39,000.00 plug-in hybrid vehicle sometime within the next two weeks. Lane, a former president of Oracle corporation, made his remarks at the...
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Mitsubishi i-MIEV Electric Sold Out Through First Year's Production
Initial 1,400 Mitsubishi i-MiEV Electric Vehicles Have Been Spoken For
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Toyota Auris Sedan Hybrid To Use Same Powertrain As The Prius
Toyota's new Auris HSD (Hybrid Synergy Drive) concept car, to be unveiled next week at the Frankfurt motor show, will preview the production model of the vehicle set to begin rolling off British assembly lines in the second half of 2010. Based on the existing Auris five door hatch-back, the...
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San Francisco based Oorja Protonics, which currently sells its fuel cells to Nissan Motor Co. for use in robotic forklifts, is developing a product intended to be used as a range-extender in pure...
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Plug-In Pickup To Be Built By Indiana Based EMC
New EMC Flash to be based on The Ford F-150
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Korean EV Runs Without batteries By Induction Charging
The Korea Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) has developed a revolutionary electric vehicle that neatly side-steps the looming political/economic issue of scarcity of advanced battery materials, as well as the practical limitations imposed by battery weight and life, by dispensing with...
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Think Electric Plans U.S. EV Factory
Michigan a contender for Think Electric Car Factory
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Testing Shows Raser Electric Hummer Exceeds 50 Miles On Batteries Alone
Electric Hummer H3E Could get 190MPG City Using the Method Used to Predict 240 MPG For GM Volt
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Better Place Battery Swapping To Be Tested In Tokyo Taxis
Tokyo Taxis to be tested with Battery Swapping Technology
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