Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, Contributing Writer
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If you’ve got one of the many new electric cars due to launch this year on order you’re probably as excited about going electric as our own Marty Padgett, who is one of the many patiently...
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Touched By Tesla: Why Tesla’s Future Lies In EngineeringDespite what some electric car conversion advocates will tell you, making a good electric car is extremely hard. It takes skill, money, resources and many hours of time. What’s more, the history books are littered with the names of small independent companies who tired and failed to produce...
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The 2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5 What Do YOU Want To Know?We’ve already covered the updated 2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5 upgrade on AllCarsElectric and although our John Voelcker has given the 2010 Roadster a 7.4 out of 10 over at TheCarConnection, we’ve yet to put the 2011 Roadster 2.5 through its paces. Updated with a new grille, some performance...
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Your Ultimate Guide To Electric Car Charging EtiquetteThe end of 2010 is fast approaching and that means in a few short months we’ll see the launch of several different plug-in vehicles. But as the 2011 Nissan Leaf, 2011 Coda Sedan, 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Wheego Whip LiFE and others hit the roads of the U.S., hundreds of new electric car and...
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Best Buy Joins Electric Car Infrastructure, Installs Charging PointsAs any gadget geek will tell you, the electronics retailer Best Buy is a great place to get everything from the latest windscreen televisions and kitchen appliances through to electric bicycles and even in select stores, the 2011 Brammo Enertia. We already know how switched onto electric cars Best...
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Five Reasons Why Voltgate Won’t Hurt Sales Of The 2011 Chevy VoltWhen the proverbial waste-product hit the fan yesterday with the revelation that GM could possibly have “lied to us” about just how its 2011 Chevy Volt operated we sat back and waited for the dust to settle. After all, the tabloid reporting of some sites didn’t tell us anything we...
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Range Anxiety, or the fear that an electric car will run out of charge before it reaches its destination, has to be the ultimate boogeyman of the electric car world. It stems from the fact that most...
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Enterprise To Add 100 2011 Coda Sedans To Its Electric Car FleetElectric cars and the rental market seem made for one another. While you’re not easily going to be able to make huge long-distance family trips in an electric rental car, all electric rental cars are ideal for visitors to larger cities throughout the U.S., be they on holiday or stop-over...
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Can Electric Cars Be Hurt By Bitter Electric-Car Advocates?Every political or social movement has its cross to bear. Every trend has a stereotype from which to break free. So it seems time to ask, is the public image of electric cars and other plug-in vehicles being damaged by those who maintain that a huge and evil global conspiracy exists against the EV?...
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New York Power Authority Embraces Ford's Electric FutureNew York City has one of the best mass transit systems of any major metropolis. But the City itself is still noisy, polluted and congested. The first two may soon be eased, thanks to continuing work from New York’s Power Authority (NYPA), which showcased a range of all-electric and hybrid...
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After Top Gear, Ben "The Stig" Collins Digs Electric CarsWhat happens when mysterious masked racing driver of the U.K’s most famous car-based entertainment show reveals his identity? Contrary to the opinions aired on the testosterone-filled, gear jamming show he actually quite likes electric cars, and he's not been afraid to share his admiration...
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AllCarsElectric Launches E-mail Subscription And Improved RSSWe know you love checking out the latest news on green cars, especially the very best in electric car news, reviews and buying advice. But we also know you’re busy. Sometimes it’s nice when the news comes to you, not vice versa. Many of our readers have asked us to improve the way we...
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Tesla Motors, manufacturers of the all-electric Tesla Roadster and Tesla Roadster Sport has decided to recall 439 of its sexy sports car, over a potential fire risk.
The Palo-Alto based automaker...
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Going On Two Wheels? Your Introduction To The 2011 Brammo Motorcycle RangeAs major automakers and electric specialists battle it out to become the number one electric vehicle maker, a small Oregonian company is slowly sneaking into the lead in the world of electric motorcycles. Featured in The Wall Street Journal Blogs this weekend, Brammo motorcycles likes to think of...
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2011 Chevy Volt Customer Advisory Board: More Than A Publicity StuntWhen long-time EV advocate and former GM EV1 salesperson Chelsea Sexton talked to us a few weeks ago and told us she had some exciting news, we knew something fun was about to happen. Did she have news about the up-coming sequel to Chris Payne’s docudrama Who Killed The Electric Car? Was she...
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Auto X-Prize Winners Finalize Plans To Bring Unique 2-Wheeler To MarketLet’s face it. We haven’t been particularly nice about the Automotive X-Prize. While the multi-million dollar competition was originally designed to seek out new engineering talent and encourage automakers to go green, the event became a holding pen for the misfits of the automotive...
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Audi's Drapes Are Off: e-tron Spyder Is Plug-in Diesel Electric HybridRumors are strange things. Sometimes we hear rumors which, days later, are confirmed. Then there are the rumors which carry some credence, but omit some vital fact or other. Take Audi’s latest concept, the e-tron Spyder. Unveiled today at the Paris Motor Show it bears uncanny resemblance to...
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Nissan All Smiles: TownPod Concept Unveiled At 2010 Paris Motor ShowIf you remember back a few weeks you’ll remember that we were given a sneak peak at Nissan’s latest electric creation, the Townpod. We weren’t told much by NIssan at the time and spent some time cogitating over the enigmatic press release, which stated that the TownPod “is...
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General Motors recently hit the headlines with its attempt to trademark the term “Range Anxiety” to use in advertising campaigns for its extended range electric vehicle, the 2011 Chevy...
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2011 Nissan Leaf Won't Depreciate As Quickly As Critics Had FearedRemember the June rantings of British motoring journalist Mike Rutherford, who warned in his column for the Telegraph that cars like the 2011 Nissan Leaf would retain just 10% of its original value three years after purchase? While Rutherford ‘s original article was based on figured provided...
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California Approves $1.9 Million Upgrade To Electric Car ChargersIt’s tough being at the cutting edge of technology. Just like the early days of the video cassette or more recently, the high-definition DVD wars a technology becomes obsolete before its even had chance to take off. So what happens when over 600 EV chargers in the state of California are...
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Report: Electric Cars Best Way To Reduce U.S. Oil DependancyWe like it when a study confirms a common-held belief. And for hundreds of would-be electric car owners across the U.S. a recent study has done just that. Years into the Military Conflict in the Middle East, and just months after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill a team at Rice University have...
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Is BYD About To Lose Investment From U.S. Billionaire?Last week we wrote about the latest hurdles facing Chinese battery firm turned carmaker BYD. With multiple court battles, poor sales figures and still very few all-electric cars on the streets of China, we’ve seen the automaker revise its sales predictions and even delay a floating on the...
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BMW Announces ActiveE Testing For Key Markets, Starts Summer 2011As BMW bring to an end the first round of BMW Mini E lease schemes in the U.K, drivers in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston and Connecticut can look forward to signing up to help BMW test its ActiveE, two years before its MegaCity EV hits the market. Based on a...
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