Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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It appears that one of the perennial sticking points of electric cars is still putting off buyers.
Not range anxiety, but pricing.
In the Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook...
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Wireless Electric Car Charging: Now Through Your TiresMany electric car owners consider the debate over charging points all a bit of a fuss. After all, when the majority of your driving is between home and the office, then charging at one of those two locations will usually suffice. The presence (or otherwise) of chargers at rest stops or spread...
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2013 BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Pricing And Details AnnouncedSome hybrids, like the 2012 Toyota Prius, are designed out-and-out to achieve great gas mileage and reduce emissions. Some, like the 2013 BMW ActiveHybrid 3, are designed to entice existing luxury car buyers from their gas-guzzling models into slightly more parsimonious ones... while maintaining...
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Chrysler Sorts Out Its Green Branding: HFE For Gas To Join EcoDieselOn Friday we revealed that Chrysler is introducing a new badging system for its upcoming range of diesel engines, known as EcoDiesel. Now, the company has filed another trademark with the patent office, known as "HFE High Fuel Efficiency". Just as the EcoDiesel tag will be used on the marque's...
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Whoops: Infiniti Emerg-E Hybrid Breaks Down At Goodwood (Video)If you're showing off your flagship product in front of tens of thousands of people, you'd probably hope that everything goes without a hitch. Unfortunately for Infiniti, whose stunning Emerg-E plug-in hybrid was there to wow the crowds at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed, things didn't quite...
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2013 Ford Escape Vs. 2013 Mazda CX-5: Crossover ComparisonIt's no surprise that crossovers are having such a surge in popularity right now. By offering the sort of chunky styling and high driving position that draws people to SUVs, with gas mileage and driving characteristics more in common with regular compact cars, they offer the best of both worlds for...
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Chrysler will use a new EcoDiesel badge to distinguish its upcoming range of clean diesel vehicles, set for roll-out over the next few years.
Coming straight from the United States Patent and...
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Electric Mercedes Galore Competing In Austrian E-Car RallyDaimler might only have one full production electric car at the moment, in the shape of the 2013 smart fortwo electric drive, but the company has been experimenting with several other electric vehicles over the past few years. Many of these are set to compete in the third Silvretta E-Car Rallye, a...
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Oregon Joins Long Trail Of Pacific Coast Electric Car Charge StationsIt may not be long before electric car owners on America's Pacific coast can drive all the way from Canada to Mexico--using quick-charge stations. Thanks to Oregon's new 'electric highway', it's now possible to charge an electric car every 25 miles down a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 5. That...
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Two Electric Cars, One Planet To Race Around: Who Will Win?Remember the two French guys in their Mitsubishi i (well, Citroen C-Zero)? Their eight-month, 15,500-mile journey in the tiny electric car is just one of many long-distance EV publicity drives we've seen, but certainly one of the longest. Naturally, they're not the only people to have thought of...
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CARB Renews Electric Vehicle Fund With $27 MillionCalifornia has long been known for its efforts to reduce pollution from vehicles, and efforts to popularize hybrids and electric cars. The California Air Resources Board has now taken that one step further by approving a $27 million fund for its Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). Much of this...
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Renting Electric Cars: Hertz Rocks, Enterprise Facing More Challenges?Does electric car rental work as a business proposition? That might depend on who you ask. Because despite popular rental company Hertz having massive success with the format, backed up by other popular schemes like Car2Go, things aren't so rosy for Enterprise. According to the New York Times (via...
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“To us, electric mobility means dynamics and driving pleasure”
So explained Audi AG board member for technical development, Michael Dick, after racing driver Marcus Winkelhock set a new...
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Gas Station Staff Get Punk'd Electric Style With Nissan LeafIf there's one comment we see more than any other from drivers of electric cars, it's the one about driving past gas stations with a smile, knowing they aren't using a drop. Maybe they'd get even more of a smile by driving in and filming the result--as that's exactly what Nissan has done during a...
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Hybrids: Should You Buy One? The Pros And ConsIf you want to cut down on gas and reduce your tailpipe emissions, there's never been a better selection of vehicles to choose from. Whether you go the whole hog with an electric car or simply buy a more efficient gasoline vehicle, you're spoiled for choice. Each fuel and vehicle variation has its...
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BMW-Toyota Pact: Hybrids, Fuel Cells, Carbon Fiber--And A Sports Car TooOn Thursday, we brought you news that BMW was planning to ditch its partnership with GM to develop fuel cell vehicles, for Japanese rival Toyota. That news has now been confirmed, with a joint press conference on Friday heralding the start of BMW and Toyota's partnership. The automakers' Memorandum...
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U.S. House To EPA: We Won't Let You Set Emissions LawsWith 2025's 54.5 mpg corporate average fuel economy standards set to be finalized towards the end of this year, carmakers will also have to meet a 34.1 mpg average by 2016. Alongside these economy targets, carmakers--and perhaps other businesses--will also be bound by the EPA's greenhouse gas...
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Fisker Admits In Ads, 'It Isn't Easy'We have to admit, Kermit the Frog has wisdom well beyond his species. "It isn't easy being green" describes the world of electric and hybrid vehicles quite vividly, and few have found it less easy being green than Fisker Automotive, makers of the Karma range-extended luxury car. So difficult have...
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You might not have seen any adverts for it yet, but the 2013 Ford Escape is already flying out of dealer lots.
That's not bad when the auto market is currently undergoing a summer slump, but the...
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Five Forgotten Electric Cars: Do YOU Remember Them?Amidst a throng of new launches over the past few years and a host of new models to come, some electric cars from days gone by have disappeared into obscurity. Some are surprisingly recent, others have been dead for years, but all are easily forgotten. Unless you own one, of course... Ford Ranger...
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Hybrid Driving Tips: Maximize MPG, Minimize CostWe get to drive plenty of hybrid cars here at GreenCarReports, and naturally a combination of driving styles and road conditions play a part in the fuel economy figures we get. Unlike with some other vehicles though, hybrids sometimes require a slightly different technique to extract the best...
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2012 Toyota Prius C Vs 2012 Honda Insight: Sub-$20K Hybrids ComparedIf you're in the market for a brand new hybrid but want to save a few pennies on purchase price, you're really limited to two vehicles. One is the 2012 Honda Insight, familiar not just for its Prius-like profile but also having been on sale for several years now. The other is the 2012 Toyota Prius...
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New Life For Nickel-Iron Battery Technology Used By EdisonInspiration can come from the strangest of places, but in the fast-paced world of electric car technology you might not expect it to come from one hundred years ago. However, when the idea came from Thomas Edison you might be able to understand why scientists have given it another look. The...
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Top Down, Tunes Up: Five Summer Cars With High Gas MileageAs anyone who owns one will tell you, there's nothing quite like driving with the top down on a sunny day. It may be clichéd, but having the wind in your hair, sun on your face and experiencing just a little more of the world around you, really does make every journey a little more fun...
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