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• COPENHAGEN DELEGATES DRIVE 60 BRITISH ELECTRIC CARS

  
  European Motor News — Authority: 151
  British company, The Electric Car Corporation (ECC), has supplied 60 Citroen C1 ev’ie electric cars to be available for delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this week.
  11 hours ago

• GM invests $336 million in Chevy Volt plant

  
  The Alternative Consumer — Authority: 538
  I guess GM is putting its money where its electric vehicle mouth is.  General Motors has announced it will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt electric car, with extended-range capabilities, in 2010.The move brings GM’s combined Volt-related ...
  13 hours ago

• Capstones CMT-380 hybrid supercar does 150MPH with batteries and a jet engine

  
  Engadget — Authority: 850
  Step aside, Tesla -- weve just spotted the hottest Earth-lovin supercar since the Lightning GT . Shown off to wide-mouthed onlookers at the LA Auto Show this month, the Capstone CMT-380 prototype is an automotive beast unlike anything weve ever seen. Rather than mixing batteries and a conventional engine, this whip ...
  14 hours ago

• Athlon Car Lease to help Renault distribute EVs

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 680
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Renault Renault Fluence ZE Concept - click above for high-res image gallery As we begin to move into the age of electrically-driven cars, cost will become a hurdle that customers will have to overcome. For the foreseeable future, the cost of batteries will mean that the up-front ...
  17 hours ago

• Electric car companies use COP 15 to market their wares

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 133
  Above Think City cars outside the Bella Centre in København, Denmark. Electric car companies are using the København United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) as a forum to market their products—which makes one wonder if some of these conferences have come grand trade fairs, rather than one where ...
  18 hours ago

• A Solar Panel That Washes Itself

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 521
  It’s cleaning up space junk , and is giving us lab-on-chip biofilters for detecting contamination . Now nanotechnology has produced a coating for windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt. Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car could be within reach too. New Tel Aviv University ...
  19 hours ago

• Gavin Shoebridge Electric Conversion Made Easy Review

  
  rotatelogs.com — Authority: 155
  Gavin Shoebridge is an electric vehicle nut and keen environmentalist, who wrote the Electric Conversion Made Easy ebook wherein you will see how you can build your own electric car for much less than you might expect. This easy-to-read ebook will take you step-by-step through every single element of planning, ...
  1 day ago

• Will New GM CEO Ed Whitacre Shift Marketing Away From the Volt?

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 437
  Whitacre forced out the previous CEO and seized the CEO spot for himself. Some are questioning whether he will gut the Volt project. Supposedly the dealers are concerned about the focus on the Volt and how its distracting away from the cars in the showrooms right now. Article Reference:  ...
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• EV Secrets - Gas To Electric Vehicle Conversion

  
  Spray Paint Car Blog — Authority: 154
  People have always worked on ways on how to get from Gas To Electric Vehicle Conversion . This is to get more advantages that a regular car doesn’t usually provide. Having to get your car to be run on electricity would be cheaper and would somehow be hassle free when it comes to maintenance. However, when you take ...
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• Nissan V2G Wins Youthmobile 2030 Design Challenge

  
  CarBuyersNoteBook — Authority: 516
  The Nissan V2G (Vehicle to Grid) has been awarded the Youthmobile 2030 Design Challenge thanks mainly to its design and environmental features. It is actually an electric car which has been designed to run on a network of electrified highways. The car has customized parts which allows potential owners to snap them on ...
  3 days ago

• Alain Prost and son team up for first all-electric ice-racing series

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 680
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Europe/EU , Racing The Trophée Andros kicks off its 21st season of ice-racing this weekend at Val Thorens in the French Alps featuring its first all-electric series, the appropriately-named Trophée Andros Electrique. You may remember theyve been trying out battery-powered vehicles ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  3 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  3 days ago

• Tesla Exposed: Photos With Body Parts Removed.

  
  MixedPower.com — Authority: 117
  I was in San Carlos , California today and noticed this car being worked on at a metal shop . From a distance I was pretty sure it was a Tesla and a closer inspection confirmed my guess. For you enthusiasts, here are 7  Tesla Photos with some major body parts removed. Question is – was this one ...
  3 days ago

• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
  3 days ago

• Panasonic Said to Be in Talks With 10 Automakers Over Li-ion Batteries for EVs

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 165
  Fresh from regulatory approval of its $4.6 billion plan to purchase the battery-maker Sanyo Electric Co., Panasonic Corp. is in discussions with some 10 automakers to supply lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles, said Naoto Noguchi, president of Panasonics battery division. ———- A Panasonic ...
  3 days ago

• Attendees of Global-Warming Talks to Emit as Much CO2 as 200,000 Passenger Cars

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 165
  The 17,000 people visiting Denmark for global talks on reducing greenhouse gases will release as much carbon dioxide during the two-week event as about 200,000 U.S. passenger cars do in the period, according to Bloomberg news service. Environmental activists, government envoys, business leaders and journalists will ...
  3 days ago

• Fisker Bumps Karma Launch to 2010, Expects Battery Deal This Month

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 655
  Plug-in hybrid car startup Fisker Automotive had expected to launch its first vehicle, the luxury Fisker Karma, in 2009. But according to founder and CEO Henrik Fisker, who spoke yesterday at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the launch is now scheduled for September 2010 . What we can expect this year, he told Reuters ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Experts Differ on America’s Ability to Put 1M Plug-in Hybrids on U.S. Roads by 2015

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 165
  At an energy security panel held Thursday, alternative-fuel advocates and security experts wrestled over the feasibility of getting 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on American roads by 2015, a goal Barack Obama set while campaigning for the presidency. ———- Right, salt field conceals untapped lithium carbonate ...
  3 days ago

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