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Racing Green Endurance to tackle Pan-American highway with electric Radical racer [w/VIDEO]

How fast can a battery-powered car travel the entire 16,000+ mile length of the Pan-American highway? We don't really know but it looks like we're going to find out. The Racing Green Endurance team, hailing from Imperial College London, are putting together an all-electric version of the Radical SR8 (now an SR0) to demonstrate to the world the possibilities of this powertrain. What better backdrop for such a spectacle than the world's longest highway? Ok, there is that Zero Emission Race around the world in 80 days that the team was to ... Read more →

Lithium battery recycling facility suffers explosions, fire Domenick Yoney

A big piece of the end-of-life plan for lithium batteries is recycling and there is only one place in North America currently capable of carrying out that procedure. That facility, owned and ...

Plug-in vehicles will get special license plate in Ontario next year Sebastian Blanco

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Plug_in_Cars_To_Get_Special_License_Plates_in_Ontario_by_10'; Want to emblazon your ride with Ontario's new "environmentally friendly vehicles" license plate? There ...

Mexico developing 'smart' speed bumps to increase safety, decrease fuel consumption Jeremy Korzeniewski

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Smart_speed_bumps_increase_safety_decrease_fuel_consumption'; Speed bumps are the bane of many an urban driver all around the world. We understand that the little ...

Electric Bicycle World Tour to last three years, well under way Domenick Yoney

While some think driving around the world in 80 days is a good way to promote the environmentally-friendly possibilities of electric transport, others prefer to take the slow road. In this case, ...

Will Tesla build electric cars in Canada someday? 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

The Tesla Roadster is, quintessentially, a California car. Not only is the convertible two-seater perfectly suited for the streets of Santa Monica but the car's home is in the San Francisco/Palo Alto area. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, though, has a lot of ties to Canada and a new profile of the ...

Zero Emission Race plans to go around the world in 80 days 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

It's been less than a year since Louis Palmer ended his 17-month circumnavigation of the planet in his solar-powered "taxi" and it seems the experience has inspired him to organize something bigger and better. The Swiss teacher is putting together a zero emissions race around the world that ...

REPORT: Nissan Leaf coming to Vancouver in 2011 1 month ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan has named five areas in the U.S. – Tennessee and Oregon; San Diego, CA; Seattle, WA; and the Phoenix/Tucson region in Arizona – to be the first to get the Leaf all-electric vehicle when the car goes on sale in late 2010. A report in the Globe and Mail says that Vancouver will ...

Us, too! Mexico introducing cash for clunkers legislation 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Méxican President Felipe Calderón has announced a "cash for clunkers" plan similar to his country's northern neighbor. The idea is, unsurprisingly, to help people to get rid of old and polluting cars in order to both improve car sales and to help the environment by putting more ...

REPORT: Ontario to announce incentives for plug-in vehicles, up to $10K 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

The premier of the Canadian province of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, reportedly plans to announce a major incentive program for plug-in vehicles today in Toronto. Ontario has already given several billion dollars to General Motors and Chrysler and wants to help boost the industry further to try ...

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