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

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 they've been trying out battery-powered vehicles the past couple years, but this time the effort begins in earnest with 8 cars, built by accomplished motorsport constructor Exagon Engineering, taking their place on the starting grid. Although they look similar to the two machines run last year, this new batch of ... Read more →

LA 2009: The plug-in Prius makes its North American debut Frank Filipponio

Toyota rather unceremoniously parked their plug-in Prius at its North American market debut during the LA Auto Show, while their new Sienna minivan got a royal welcome at its coming out party. At ...

Five EVs, one hydrogen car, one PHEV named as finalists for 2010 Green Car Vision Award Sebastian Blanco

The Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car Journal's 2010 Green Car of the Year yesterday, and the magazine is already looking ahead to next month, when the Green Car Vision Award will be announced at ...

Fisker: VP Biden not the reason we chose Delaware Jeremy Korzeniewski

What does Joe Biden have to do with Fisker Automotive? On the surface, the answer would seem to be nothing at all.. or at least it did until the Vice President himself revealed the startup ...

Audi twists e-tron 3319 lb-ft torque rating Michael Harley

When introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, Audi boasted its all-electric e-tron was fitted with four electric motors producing "230 kW (313 hp) and 4,500 Nm (3,319.03 lb-ft) of ...

LA 2009: Mitsubishi will bring an EV to U.S. in 2011, but it might not be the i-MiEV 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

Here's a line from Mitsubishi's press release dated April 9, 2009: Ending months of heightening speculation, Mitsubishi Motors North America President and CEO Shinichi Kurihara confirmed the i MiEV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) is being developed for sale in world markets, ...

Renault EVs to be available for test drives during Copenhagen climate conference 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

When attendees get to the big climate change conference in Copenhagen next week, they will have an opportunity to sample some of Renault's upcoming fleet of electric vehicles. A sampling of the Fluence ZE sedans and Kangoo Express ZE MPV's will be on hand at the conference and available for test ...

EV Cup electric car racing series to light up tires in 2011 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

If you've been impatiently waiting to watch electric cars rip racetrack asphalt asunder, an end to your suffering may be in sight. A new racing series branded EV Cup has just been launched in London with plans to bring 3 separate classes of cars to a half-dozen tracks around Europe beginning in ...

LA 2009: First Fisker Karmas now expected to hit showrooms in Sept. 2010 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

Henrik Fisker provided an update on his eponymous car company here in LA today. No one but the hopelessly naive will be surprised to learn that production Karma's will not be hitting customers hands by the end of this month (as once promised). For a company that was only founded two years ago, ...

There's no way Cleantech Group's 2010 prediction about plug-ins comes true 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

Reading through Cleantech Group's "Ten Predictions for 2010," it's easy to dismiss their vision for plug-in vehicles next year as nearly impossible. You can read all ten predictions after the jump, but the sole vehicle-related items reads as follows: "Electric cars take the back seat to smart ...

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