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• Video: Chevrolet Volt will make ‘chirping’ sound to alert blind pedestrians

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  General Motors and the National Federation of the Blind are cooperating are teaming up to identify a safe level of sound to alert pedestrians without sight that a silent-running electric or hybrid vehicle is present. “We are confident electric vehicles can produce a safe and acceptable level of sound to alert blind ...
  3 days ago

• Bentley considering a crossover and a cheaper, smaller car

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  Bentley, which is aiming for 10,000 sales annually, is stuck being optimistic with sales reaching just above 6,000 units a year. To dig its way out of this dilemma, the Volkswagen owned brand is now considering down-sizing and down-pricing its vehicles. For those of you thinking “YES! I can finally own a Bentley,” ...
  4 days ago

• City of Houston Launches Prius Plug-in Project

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 501
  The city of Houston, Texas and Reliant Energy are converting 10 of the citys new Toyota Prius hybrids into plug-in vehicles, according to the Houston Chronicle . Reliant will also install 10 charging stations around the city, seven of which will be available for public use. The report said the project is aimed at ...
  4 days ago

• Chevrolet Volt stars in show-and-tell for middle school students

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  In what may become the world’s largest school show-and-tell event, about 800 middle school students and teachers in Los Angeles will join a web cast to learn more about the Chevrolet Volt electric-vehicle with extended range. The assembly will run from 9:40 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. PST on Nov. 30th and is open to middle ...
  5 days ago

• 6 Myths About Hybrid Vehicles Unplugged

  
  MixedPower.com — Authority: 114
  Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives’ tales, there’s a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, hold great promise as the key to weaning America from its dependence on imported oil, which represents nearly two-thirds of ...
  6 days ago

• Toyota to Start Leasing Prius Plug-in Hybrid Japan Buyers

  
  Green Cars, Hybrid Cars, Electric Cars and Clean Diesel News — Authority: 438
  Toyota plans to lease out over 200 units of its newly developed Prius Plug-in Hybrid to potential buyers in Japan.
  6 days ago

• Report: Tesla Motors to offer IPO any day now

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  Two people familiar with the situation told Reuters today that electric-vehicle automaker Tesla Motors is planning to go public soon. The sources said that Tesla is outlining plans to offer an IPO and cash in on investors who are interested in the future of electric-vehicles. A source said that an IPO filing from ...
  1 week ago

• Welcome to Iowa. Please Plug In Your Car.

  
  Autopia — Authority: 747
  California is the birthplace of the coming EV invasion, but a tiny town in Iowa wants to be the birthplace of a “Pony Express” of charging stations that will keep those cars going. Businessman Mike Howard has erected four charging stations in Elk Horn , a town of 650 people about an hour east of Omaha. He has ...
  1 week ago

• Toyota starts discussions on who will get PHEV Priuses

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 693
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Toyota Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Concept -- Click above for high-res image gallery Toyota is getting ready to start deploying a fleet of 200 plug-in Prius hybrids in the coming months and the company needs to figure out what to do with them. The cars will ...
  1 week ago

• GM provides update on Chevrolet Volt development

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  Earlier this week, engineers and other members of the Chevrolet Volt team provided the media with an update on the development of the new plug-in hybrid vehicle. There is less than one year to go before GM starts making the production Chevrolet Volt, according to Vehicle Chief Engineer Andrew Farah. The plug-in ...
  1 week ago

• Plug-in hybrids clock up one million miles

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 437
  Thanks to the Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity at the Idaho National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy has now clocked up one million miles under its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle testing. The activity looks at plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in real world usage using both fleet and public drivers. The ...
  1 week ago

• Daimler kicks off production of 1,000 Smart ForTwo electric drive units

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  Daimler AG announced today that it has kicked off production of its new Smart ForTwo electric-drive EVs at the company’s plant in Hambach, France. The first 1,000 units produced will go to customers participating in various pilot programs across Europe and the United States. The Smart ForTwo electric-drive will ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft uses silent Tesla Roadster to capture tire screeching sounds

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  When most of us play video games, we never really think about how much work goes into producing one that is as close to reality as possible. Take car racing games for example – capturing sounds of tire screeches and engine noise seems like a tedious task since its difficult to isolate one from the other. Thanks to ...
  1 week ago

• Electric Rolls-Royce Phantom could debut within a year

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  We’ve heard about Rolls-Royce working on an electric version of the Phantom many times before. According to AutoCar , Rolls-Royce could have an electric Phantom on the roads within 12 months. That would be just in time for the car to make its debut at the 2012 London Olympics, which are being sponsored by parent ...
  1 week ago

• Chevrolet Volt engineers working on their days off to meet launch schedule

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  The 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid is scheduled to make its market launch in Nov. of 2010. It’s no wonder that engineers working on the Volt are putting in hours even on their days off. “They’re testing, measuring and evaluating what is arguably the most important vehicle in General Motors Co.’s ...
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• Study: Electric-vehicle sales will hit 14 million in the U.S. by 2020

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  A new study called Electrification Roadmap predicts that there will be at least 14 million electric-vehicles on U.S. roads by 2020 and that EVs could account for 75 percent of all light-duty miles driven by 2040. The new study is backed by Nissan, FedEx, Coda Automotive and Coulomb Technologies. “Up to now, ...
  1 week ago

• First Drive: Test-driving the new Nissan LEAF EV… sort of

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  As some of you may remember, at the Dodgers Stadium here in Los Angeles last April I test drove a Nissan Cube fitted with what was to eventually be the powertrain of the new 2011 Nissan Leaf. What seemed to be an exercise in futurism, now looking back, was more close to reality that we, in the media, could have ...
  1 week ago

• Aptera 2e officially delayed until 2010

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  Aptera announced today that its Aptera 2e electric-car has been pushed back to 2010. “We’re making significant progress every day with product refinements, the completion of engineering and design details, and securing meaningful strategic partnerships,” said Paul Wilbur president and CEO. “However, we now ...
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• Think picks Indiana for U.S. manufacturing plant, applies for U.S. loan

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 586
  Norwegian electric-car maker Think, which recently exited bankruptcy court protection and raised $47 million, has announced that it is gearing up to launch vehicles in the United States and has picked a site in Indiana for its U.S. manufacturing facility. Think will announce the exact location and other details in a ...
  1 week ago

• Group Wants Government to Jump-Start the E.V. Revolution

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image by jitze via Flickr Calling for what amounts to a Marshall Plan to start manufacturing plug-in hybrids and battery-electric cars, a group of executives from the auto and utility industries, and prospective plug-in fleet buyers laid out a strategy on Monday at a roundtable in Washington. The new group, ...
  1 week ago

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