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• 12 Awesome and Creative Electric Cars

  
  UNUSUAL THINGs — Authority: 121
  Electric cars are cool, hip, interesting, and environmentally-friendly. Automakers old and new are all developing new ways for us to drive, and by far, the most popular hybrid vehicle in the United States is the Toyota Prius. We’re all used to how it looks now, but remember how strange we thought it looked when it ...
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• Sanyo Says It Has Won at Least 2 Customers for Its Li-ion Batteries for PHEVs

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Sanyo Electric Co., the worlds biggest maker of rechargeable batteries, has won at least two customers for its lithium-ion batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles, Bloomberg news service reported today, citing a Sanyo executive. The company will start supplying the batteries to automakers, including a Japanese and ...
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• 2009 LA Auto Show: U.S. Launch of Chevy Volt to Begin in California in Late 2010

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Chevrolet announced today that the Volt electric vehicle with extended-range capability will be available late next year in California – the nations largest new-car market – with other major markets to be named later. “It is natural that California is the lead market for Volt. Not only is it the largest ...
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• 12 Funniest-Looking Electric Cars …

  
  All Women Stalk — Authority: 439
  Electric cars are cool, hip, interesting, and environmentally-friendly. Automakers old and new are all developing new ways for us to drive, and by far, the most popular hybrid vehicle in the United States is the Toyota Prius. We’re all used to how it looks now, but remember how strange we thought it looked when it ...
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• Trying out the Vauxhall Ampera

  
  Auto Trader Blog — Authority: 129
  We spend a great deal of time testing cars that manufacturers have finished developing, but yesterday I spent a few hours with a car that will become the Vauxhall Ampera.The Ampera is a green car with a difference. It’s not a hybrid and it’s not an electric vehicle as we know it, rather a blend [...]
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• Chevy Volt to cruise into California next year

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  GM says the Golden State will receive the electric Chevy Volt at the end of next year, part of a regional roll-out strategy to test customer reception of electric vehicle technology.
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• Diesel-electric supercar has 80 mile battery range, gets 44 mpg after that

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 531
  Capstone Turbine has developed a prototype diesel-electric sports car that does 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds with a top speed of 150 mph. It’ll do 80 miles on the battery and an additional 420 on the diesel microturbine. It’s also quiet and clean.
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• Renault and L’Oreal collaboration to make Zoe ZE electric car

  
  ITech & Gadget Diary — Authority: 148
  Renault has announced a collaboration with L’Oreal, a company famous in the field of cosmetics to make their electric car named Zoe ZE or called Electric Vehicle “spa” concept. The roof of this car is coated with a membrane (membrane) that can protect the inside of the car to heat and cool and added a ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
  22 hours ago

• Chevy Volt EV range and fuel economy updated, Part II

  
  Hybrid Cars — Authority: 430
  38 mpg in the city? Earlier this week Edmunds.com suggested a few new things about the Chevy Volt that I covered in Chevy Volt EV range and fuel economy updated . First, Edmunds claimed that the Chevy Volt, once EV range expires, would only achieve about 38 mpg. Second, Edmunds claimed that for the average driver ...
  22 hours ago

• Better Place Australia Secures Funding For Canberra Electric Vehicle Charging Network

  
  The Motor Report: Auto News And Reviews — Authority: 487
  ELECTRIC VEHICLE SERVICES provider Better Place Australia announced this week that it has secured $25 million in an initial round of funding. The funding will be used in the development of BPAs planned charging network in Canberra, slated to be in operation by 2011. Better Place Australia representatives [...] ...
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• Li-ion Battery Maker EnerDel Plays Key Role in Two Major Smart-Grid Projects

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Christmas is arriving a little early for EnerDel this year. ———- EnerDel not only supplies the lithium-ion batteries for Thinks City EV, but its parent company, Ener1, has an ownership stake in the carmaker. ———- The Indianapolis-based battery maker announced last week that it will enter
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• AZD Taps Johnson Controls-Saft to Supply Battery for Ford Transit Connect BEV

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Azure Dynamics Corp. announced today that it has selected Johnson Controls-Saft to supply the Lithium-ion batteries for the AZD drivetrain that will power the Ford Transit Connect battery electric vehicle, an all-electric van scheduled to enter production in late 2010. The Transit Connect BEV – the first of four ...
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• Capstone Unveils Hybrid SuperCar Propelled by a Jet Turbine

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 735
  Capstone Turbine is set to blow through the boundaries of conventional hybrid electric vehicles with its recently unveiled CMT-380 supercar . Set to debut at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show , the prototype hybrid can hit 0-60mph in 3.9 seconds, has a range of 580 miles , and is propelled in part by an ...
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• Nano hybrid - Worlds cheapest car will zoom in electric version too

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 437
  The world’s cheapest car is planning to drive down the green route with a hybrid version soon. Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Motors, has hinted about an electric Nano. Though no official details or plans were divulged, the chairman has certainly mentioned about his interest to make his dream project join the ...
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• Electric Voltra concept paves the way for sexy next-gen motorcycle design

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  As we wrote in last weeks article about the ECOS Harbinger , one of the best things about electric vehicles is that theyre much simpler in many ways than a petrol vehicle to build. Freed from the necessities of fuel tanks, airboxes, cooling systems, exhausts and the bulky combustion motor itself, designers are going ...
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• 2011 Chevrolet Volt gets taken for a test drive

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
    The Chevy Volt is one vehicle we can really get behind. It’s hard not to be a little excited over it — we have, after all, been watching its development for quite a long time now Read more here: 2011 Chevrolet Volt gets taken for a test drive
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• Not-so-shocking admission: Zap kills Xebra, slows development of Alias

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 690
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Zap , USA Our sleuthing colleagues over at The Truth About Cars have dissected electric car maker Zaps latest 10-Q filing , and they unearthed the following little tidbit: "The decrease of $1.5 million (in revenue) is primarily due to the phase out of our three wheeled Xebra ...
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• Not-so-shocking admission: Zap kills Xebra, slows development of Alias

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 765
  Filed under: Budget , Specialty , Electric Our sleuthing colleagues over at The Truth About Cars have dissected electric car maker Zaps latest 10-Q filing , and they unearthed the following little tidbit: "The decrease of $1.5 million (in revenue) is primarily due to the phase out of our three wheeled ...
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• Better Place Australia Finance Round Raises $25 Million for EV Infrastructure Project

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Electric vehicle battery services provider Better Place said its Australian unit has secured an AUD$25 million ($22.9 million U.S.) initial financing round from a group of investors that includes the Canberra electric utility and was led by Lend Lease Ventures , a global
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