Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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Detroit has plenty of problems to work on these days, but that doesn't mean life can't go on as normal for its residents.
That even extends to introducing the car-sharing schemes found in other big...
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Tesla Model S Gets Five Stars For Crash Safety From NHTSAThe Tesla Model S electric sedan has become the latest car to be awarded a full five star crash test rating by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. While it's no surprise for modern cars to score highly in such tests, it's still an impressive feat for a young automaker like Tesla...
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First 2013 Tesla Model S Delivered Outside North America--In OsloIt's been out in the U.S. for over a year now, but today marked the first delivery for a Telsa Model S on European soil. The first 2013 Tesla Model S delivered in Europe rolled out of a Tesla Store in Norwegian capital Oslo, according to the Tesla Motors twitter feed. Norway is Europe's most...
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2014 MINI Cooper To Be Unveiled November 18You might not be familiar with Sir Alec Issigonis, but his name has made as much impact on the motoring landscape, particularly in Britain, as anyone else in the history of the automobile. Issigonis was the man behind the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor--the famous Mini. He died in 1988, but...
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Toyota Hybrid R Concept Due At 2013 Frankfurt Auto ShowAs teaser images go, it doesn't leave us much to go on. But Toyota's Hybrid R logo, in familiar Hybrid Synergy Drive blue and with the smallest hint of a checkered flag graphic, suggests the company's next concept will be rather more racy than normal. Toyota will show the Hybrid R Concept at the...
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BMW i8 Plug-In Hybrid Sports Car: More Details EmergeBMW has only just officially revealed its electric i3 city car, but already the German automaker seems ready to tease us with its i8 plug-in hybrid sports car. The company has released further details on the i8's plug-in drivetrain, with detailed images showing some of the i8's more intimate...
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Volkswagen Group of America has confirmed that its latest generation of 2.0-liter clean diesel engines will debut in the U.S. in the second half of 2014.
The engine, a version of which is already on...
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Would You Retrofit A Range Extender To Your Electric Car?Companies that convert regular gasoline cars to electric, or add a plug-in option to regular hybrids, are nothing new. The same can't be said for companies taking electric cars and turning them into range-extended electric vehicles with small gasoline engines--but that's exactly what Hyperdrive...
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Audi A3 TDI Ultra Is Audi's Most Fuel-Efficient Car Ever...But Not For U.S.The 'Ultra' tag will be familiar to fans of endurance motor racing, seen since 2010 on Audi's Le Mans-winning race cars. It hasn't yet featured on an Audi production car though, up until now--and as you'd expect, it's Audi's most fuel-efficient production car ever. The Audi A3 1.6 TDI Ultra uses a...
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Hyundai To Develop Renewable Hydrogen Station In CaliforniaHyundai has announced plans to transform an existing hydrogen refueling station in California into a cutting edge renewable fueling station. The station will be built on the site of an existing hydrogen station at Hyundai America Technical Center Inc. in Chino, California. The original station was...
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2013 Tesla Model S: New Options, Packages, And PricesIt's still fairly early days for the Tesla Model S, and while the car is finding fans across the globe, it's still seeing various updates and option packages that early buyers didn't have access to. Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has recently announced a new line of option packages and pricing for...
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Cars Bursting Into Flames All Over China--And They're Not ElectricDiscovering fire is undoubtedly a high point in mankind's history, but it's easy to overlook its benefits when it's consuming something you own. We'll forgive you if your thoughts turned towards electric cars at this stage. After all, the last few years have seen a few high-profile electric car...
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Just how close do cars get to their official EPA gas mileage figures?
We expect it's a question many of our readers are familiar with--either in keeping an eye on their own car's gas mileage, or from...
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Chevy Volt Plug-In Electric Cars Now Have Battery Cells Made In U.S.Over the next few months, the Chevrolet Volt will get just that little bit more American--as its battery cells are now produced in the U.S. Korean battery maker LG Chem opened a plant in Holland, Michigan two years ago, and production of lithium-ion cells for Chevy's range-extended plug-in Volt is...
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Solar Power Initiative By DoE Could Make Grid Electricity Cleaner, CheaperSome of our electric car-owning readers already reap the benefits of solar energy with roof-mounted panels, but on a grid level solar still has a long way to go. The U.S. Department of Energy wants to change that, revealing targets that would mean one third of the Western U.S. energy demands could...
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Ford Plug-In Drivers Do 60% Of Miles On Electricity (Just Like Volt)Ford plug-in hybrid drivers are really making the most of the electric range of their vehicles--with nearly 60 percent of trips done entirely gas-free. That's according to Ford itself, using aggregated data from the MyFord Mobile app. The most interesting thing is that as many Ford plug-in owners...
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BMW i3 Electric Car Coming, But BMW Believes In Fuel Cells TooAll eyes have been on BMW over the past few weeks as it launched the 2014 i3 electric car, two years after the concept first debuted at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. So where does BMW go from here? A wider range of electric cars, perhaps? Well, yes--with the BMW i8 sports car and mooted i5 on the...
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Via Motors Latest To Try Electric Vehicle-To-Home Backup Power TechJapanese companies have explored the concept of electric vehicles powering houses for some time, but with events like last year's Hurricane Sandy fresh in peoples' minds, some U.S. organizations are investigating it too. One of these is the Department of Defense. Another is Via Motors, the Bob...
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Sometimes the best ideas are also the simplest.
That was our first thought on seeing one gas-saving idea from nothing less than an oil company in South Korea.
Called the HERE balloon, it's oil giant...
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Fun For $40,000? Electric Plane Beats Electric Car Every Time...$40,000 will get you plenty of electric cars these days, including the recently-unveiled 2014 BMW i3. They can be fun on the right road, and it's great knowing you aren't using any gas... but there have to be bigger electric thrills elsewhere, right? The GreenWing eSpyder could be what you need to...
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2014 BMW 328d Diesel Gas Mileage, Prices Revealed [Update]Want an indication of just how quickly gas mileage is improving? Consider the 2011 BMW 335d. BMW's last diesel 3-Series model achieved a respectable 36 mpg on the highway and an unimpressive 23 mpg city, for a combined 27 mpg figure. The 2014 BMW 328d's gas mileage figures have just been revealed...
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Land Rover's Electric Defender Proves Its Worth At UK's Eden ProjectLand Rover's iconic Defender has proved itself many thousands of times over by now on everything from farms to off-road endurance rallies to the battlefield. Its latest task is a little more relaxed than those duties, but then the powertrain is a little different too. Land Rover's first electric...
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Biofuel Company Latest To Pay Off Government Loan EarlyGovernment lending to green technology companies has been a political hot potato in recent years. Huge loans were offered to dozens of companies. Automakers, solar companies, biofuel concerns and more received money, but high-profile failures like Solyndra lent credence to those critical of the...
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Toyota: We Sell Six In Every Ten Hybrids In CaliforniaCalifornia loves its hybrids. And according to figures from Toyota, it loves their hybrids more than anyone else's. A full 61 percent of new hybrids sold in California are from the Toyota brand, despite tough and growing competition from marques like Ford. The Blue Oval places second in...
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