Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, Contributing Writer
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The F3e is officially dead. According to sources cited by China Business News, the battery firm turned electric-car maker has ceased plans for commercial production of its four door electric sedan.
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Are Electric Cars Coming to Your Dealer? It Depends Who You AskWhat happens when you take a single electric car and distribute it through three different dealers in the same city? On paper we’d assume that three dealers vying for customers looking to buy the 2011 Mitsubishi i would breed healthy competition, lower prices and excellent deals...
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Forget The Tate Gallery, Artist Turns Tesla Roadster Into Moving ExhibitMany would argue that the 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 is a work of art, with its smooth lines, low profile and breathtaking performance. But one digital artist has taken the Californian electric sports car to a whole new level - by turning one into a work of art. Created as part of Art Basel...
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Pope Benedict XVI Gets Charged, Blesses Electric CarsHe’s the Pontiff to over 1.6 billion people worldwide. But until now, His Holiness The Pope has attended appointments in his fleet of heavily modified and heavily armored Mercedes SUVs. But the Vatican told the press earlier to day that His Holiness was keen to partake of the pleasures of...
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Moving Closer To Owning a Leaf: We Get To Choose Our DealerYou may not know it, but our Marty Padgett isn’t the only member of the High Gear Media editorial team to order a 2011 Nissan Leaf. Over 5,000 miles away on the west coast of England, I’ve also been waiting patiently in the queue for an email from Nissan letting me know when my Leaf...
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Electric Cars Can’t Handle Cold Weather? Myth BustedWe’re big fans of Mythbusters here at AllCarsElectric and love busting some of our own myths. So we decided to test a myth we hear time and time again: electric cars can’t go very far in the Winter when in-cabin electric heating zaps the power from the battery pack. We put on our...
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The long wait is over. At least, it soon will be.
At an event at General Motors’ Detroit Hamtramck facility which was streamed live on the Internet, everyone from government officials and GM...
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Why the 2011 Chevrolet Volt EPA Rating Sends Mixed MessagesIf like us, you were waiting with baited breath for the official EPA rating for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt you’ll have heard that the day before Thanksgiving Chevrolet announced the official figures were back for its first plug-in range-extended electric car. But unlike the 2011 Nissan...
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Move Over THINK: Mitsubishi i Highest Selling Electric Car (For Now)A few months ago we reported that the diminutive Think City had snatched the top spot as the world’s best-selling city EV with over 2,500 vehicles now on the road. But that claim is now dwarfed by Mitsubishi, which last week celebrated the 5,000th i-Miev electric car to roll off its Japanese...
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From GAP To The Electric Car: Tesla’s George BlankenshipHow do you go from selling clothes to electric cars? George Blankenship, Tesla’s Vice President of Design and Store Development knows. A 20-year veteran of global clothing store GAP and the man responsible for Apple’s successful retail stores, Blankenship jokes that these previous jobs...
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Why The EPA Is Wrong about the 2011 Leaf Range And Nissan Is RightEarlier this week Nissan announced that it had finally received its EPA official ratings for the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Earlier this week our John Voelcker had a lot to say on its 99MPGe figure, indicating the equivalent miles-per-gallon fuel consumption of a car which runs on electricity. Yes, we know...
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Geeks Get Fitted For Electric Cars Via Google GFleetLet’s face it: Google loves its green cars. Its also home to some of the best tech-savvy engineers in the world. Engineers who love their tech and love to innovate. So what better way to put a new electric car through its paces than make it part of Google’s GFleet - a pool of cars the...
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Just how fuel efficient is an electric car?
That’s been the question facing the EPA for months as it has battled the ratings system to give consumers a realistic and useful way of comparing...
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Everybody Hertz Sometimes: CODA Lifts Mood With Rental ContractYou have to feel a little sorry for CODA automotive. A few months ago the Santa Monica firm was striding towards a December launch of its 2011 Sedan. Then as a prequel to announcing its first all-electric car would be delayed by nearly 9 months its Senior VP of Sales and Marketing left, closely...
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“Unlimited Juice” Electric Vehicle Charging Plans: Good Idea or Exploitation?We often get asked by readers just how much it will cost to run an EV. And while we’re able to say that an EV costs less to run once purchased than a gasoline car we’ve had to guess refer them to their local utility company for exact pricing. So what if you could enter into a monthly...
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16,000 Miles in an Electric Car? Mission AccomplishedA team of intrepid engineers turned explorers have just finished an epic road-trip from Chena Hot Springs Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina. Built in 9 months by a team of graduates from Imperial College London, the two-seat modified racing car drove over the finish line 135 days after it began its...
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Need Juice? 7 Home Charging Solutions for Your Electric CarYou’ve read the reports, drooled over the spy shots and saved your pennies for an all-electric or plug-in hybrid electric car. But do you know how you’re going to charge your new car at home, the office or at your parents’ place? There are many different chargers available now or...
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Electric Vehicle Conversion Fires: What You Need to KnowEarlier this month, a warehouse containing memorabilia owned by rocker Neil Young was involved in a three-alarm fire that destroyed many priceless possessions. Among the charred remains in the San Carlos fire was a classic ’59 Lincoln Continental. Converted to a hybrid power train by...
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Building any car is tough. Building an electric car is tougher.
Automakers must devote time, skill, technology and financial investment to designing, engineering, and cutting costs for what is...
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Nissan Leaf Winner of Green Car Reports’ Best Green Car To Buy In 2011One week after our sister site GreenCarReports announced the contenders for the 2011 Best Car To Buy Green award, the judges have crowned an all-electric car the winner. Beating the other nominees, including the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Honda CR-Z, 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid and 2011 Lexus CT200h...
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Electrification Coalition Shares Plans to Electrify U.S. FleetsA year ago, the Electrification Coalition, a group dedicated to reducing the dependence of the U.S. on oil, growing an electric vehicle infrastructure and uptake in the process released the Electrification Roadmap. Intended as a policy framework to assist the adoption of electric vehicles by...
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VW, Daimler: There’s a Future in Electric Cars, Not Quite YetCan there ever be such a thing as too much honesty when it comes to frank discussions about your company policy? Normally we’d say no, but when you start to sow the seeds of doubt about the thing you’re trying to sell we’d say otherwise. Especially in the case of Christian...
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Tesla Thanks Toyota CEO with a 2011 Roadster Sport 2.5Finding the perfect gift to say thank you is a difficult task. Finding the right thank you present is a fine line between a gift that will convey that special message and something you know is unique. So what do you give the CEO that has everything, especially if he runs the world’s largest...
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2010 Los Angeles Auto Show: Toyota Shows Teaser PicturesYesterday, with just one week to go before the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota released a few teaser pictures of the much-anticipated love-child of Toyota and Tesla - and told us when it will be unveiled. The Toyota 2013 RAV4 Electric Vehicle is based upon Toyota’s popular compact...
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