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• Let the Sniping Begin! Nissan Says London Olympics Committee Snubbed EVs

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Does Choice of BMW as 2012 Games Auto Supplier Set Back Electrification Efforts? The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games was likely thinking more of image than energy when it made its choice, but picking BMW as the preferred automotive supplier for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games and passing on Nissans ...
  11 hours ago

• EV Batteries Could Be Used To Boost Nation’s Energy Grid

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Most of us have been in this situation before; you’re up late cranking away at some work project or homework assignment as thunder and lightning dance outside your window, shaking the whole house. Then the power goes out. All your work is gone, as is your time, and you’re left with frustration and darkness until ...
  12 hours ago

• These Transportation Family Feuds Make Your Thanksgiving Look Tame

  
  Autopia — Authority: 749
  It’s the day after Thanksgiving. By now the Macy’s parade is over, the leftover turkey is destined to fill sandwiches and a doctor has removed that fork that ended up in Uncle Lester’s forehead. Sure, Thanksgiving can be a wonderful time for families to share a meal together. It can also be a fertile ground for ...
  17 hours ago

• Mercedes and Renault Working on New Small Car Platform

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  According to a report from Autocar UK, Renault and Mercedes are teaming up to design a new, modular small car platform that will form the basis for a new Smart Car, a new Renault City car and the upcoming Renault Twizy EV . In addition, the two companies are jointly developing new engine platforms to power these ...
  2 days ago

• Tata Indica EV likely to be launched in India by early-2011

  
  India Automotive — Authority: 435
  According to Tata Motors MD (India Ops), P M Telang, an electric version of the Indica could be in showrooms in India by early-2011... Tata Motors has announced that it will launch a battery-powered electric version of the Indica in the domestic market by 2011. Tata Motors is already working on the Indica electric ...
  2 days ago

• 1967 2JZ Powered Camaro

  
  DSTROYR — Authority: 129
  I remember seeing this in Hot Rod Magazine, people were getting super pissed about it. It’s different and many old school minds think this is the worst thing ever. I personally believe it’s the mixing of the auto cultures together and making something different. Tagged: 2JZ, Culture Shock Camaro, EVS Motos Inc ...
  2 days ago

• Electric Rolls Royce On Road Within The Year?

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 622
  You know electric cars are serious when even Rolls Royce is considering ditching fossil fuel for electrons. The maker of luxury cars renowned the world over for their opulence is seriously considering having an electric version of its luxo-bargo Phantom on the road as early as next year… just in time for the 2012 ...
  3 days ago

• Tesla’s Model S Plant 99% Certain to Be Built in Downey, California

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 622
  If the city council of Downey, CA, approves it tonight, Tesla’s new factory to build the upcoming Model S sedan will be at the site of Downey Studios, just outside of Los Angeles. The plant is expected to initially create up to 1,200 much needed jobs in a city with high unemployment. Read more of this story »
  3 days ago

• Electric Cars Are Better Even When “Fueled” with Coal

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 622
  Due to the fact that our current energy grid is roughly 51% coal-powered, electric cars and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) have taken some heat as being more polluting than their manufacturers claim, and as we get closer to the release of actual mass-market electric cars, the debate seems to get more intense. Although ...
  3 days ago

• Top Gear Chaps Build Their Own Chevy Volt Killer—It’s a Good Laugh

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 622
  Top Gear is one of my all-time favorite shows. It never ceases to provide laughs and good entertainment while simultaneously managing to actually deliver useful content as well. My only gripe with it is that here in the States, we are always at least one season behind. So, while season 14 starts up on BBC in Britain, ...
  3 days ago

• Report: Tesla Has a Factory For the Model S

  
  Autopia — Authority: 749
  Tesla Motors is close to finalizing a deal to build the Model S sedan in an old NASA assembly plant in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, the mayor said. Tesla Motors has for months been searching for a factory in which to build the car. Downey Mayor Mario Guerra told the Long Beach Press-Telegram the city ...
  3 days ago

• Cheaper hybrid cars, tighter fuel economy norms for India coming soon

  
  India Automotive — Authority: 435
  The Indian government is looking at all possible ways of promoting hybrids and EVs and of making sure that conventional cars are made more fuel efficient and more emissions compatible... India’s Union Minister for heavy industries and public enterprises, Vilasrao Deshmukh recently announced that the government is ...
  3 days ago

• No MPGs for EVs

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 701
  Jeremy Anwyl, the CEO of Edmunds.com, a consumer auto site that also offers industry analysis, has suggested that the EPA revise how it measures fuel-efficiency for cars and trucks. With new electric vehicles coming to market, he argues that rather than develop complex formulas for translating EV MPGs into gas ...
  4 days ago

• Top Gear Builds a Volt of Its Own

  
  Autopia — Authority: 749
  There’s a contingent of greens out there fussing and fuming that General Motors (with its Chevrolet Volt), Nissan (with its Leaf) and everyone else in the auto industry is dragging its collective heels getting EVs and plug-in hybrids on the road. “How hard can it be?” they’ll say, demanding to know why these ...
  4 days ago

• Bloomberg: Electric Vehicles Push Japanese Engine Parts Makers Into Crisis Mode

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  As Nissan and General Motors Co. prepare to introduce battery-powered cars next year, traditional auto suppliers such as Osaka-based NTN are trying to adapt by creating new lines of business, Bloomberg reports today. ———- Right, a pile of scrapped auto engines. ———- Engine components account for as much as ...
  4 days ago

• Electric Motorcycle Racing Hits the Big Time

  
  Autopia — Authority: 749
  Electric motorcycle racing has hit the big time with the announcement that the organizers of MotoGP are launching an electric racing series next year. There’s no word yet on who’s racing or what rules they’ll have to follow, but the Fédération Internationale de Motorcyclisme has four races on the calendar ...
  4 days ago

• Mitsubishi May Bring Fuel Efficient Gas Version of i-MiEV to U.S.

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  The all-electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV isn’t set to hit U.S. shores for another 18 months, but already the company is considering selling a gas version of the car alongside its battery-powered sibling in the U.S. to compete in the same segment as the Smart Car . Read more of this story »
  4 days ago

• Mitsubishi May Bring Fuel Efficient Gas Version of i-MiEV to U.S.

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 622
  The all-electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV isn’t set to hit U.S. shores for another 18 months, but already the company is considering selling a gas version of the car alongside its battery-powered sibling in the U.S. to compete in the same segment as the Smart Car . Read more of this story »
  4 days ago

• Video: First Runway Test For Solar Powered Plane

  
  Autopia — Authority: 749
  After a flurry of activity over the past several weeks , the Solar Impulse team have finally taken their first steps towards solar flight. The prototype of the aircraft designed to be the first to fly around the world powered only by the sun, has completed the first taxi tests down the runway at its home airport in ...
  4 days ago

• Electric cars a challenge for Japanese parts suppliers

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 692
  Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in , Japan 2010 Nissan Leaf EV - Click above for high-res image gallery One thing David Cole said when we talked to him at the Business of Plugging In expo was that parts suppliers need to change in order to keep up with the demand for new parts in ...
  6 days ago

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