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0Auto industry analyst predicts we'll have more than 100 hybrid and EV models in U.S. by 2015 1285008720
Forecasting the future of the automotive market ain't no easy task. The complex forces at work, including widely ranging government incentives and automaker's often-rosy outlooks, make predicting the future for emerging technologies all the more difficult. Will hybrids be a boon to the automotive ...
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20 Audi A1 e-trons headed to Munich, Germany for pilot program 1284051480
Audi A1 e-tron concept – Click above for high-res image galleryAudi has announced that it will partner with utilities E.ON and Stadtwerke München (SWM) as well as the Technical University of Munich (TUM) launch a field test program with its A1 e-tron in Munich, Germany by mid-2011. ... -
Electric vehicle charging times will depend on both the charging station and the car 1283364120
Electric vehicles (EVs) may be dramatically less mechanically complex than their traditional internal combustion counterparts, but that's where the simplicity ends. The battle that began with Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla over direct vs. alternating current continues to this day, the battlefield ...
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CEA survey shows 40% of Americans hope to test drive electric vehicles, but only 25% know anything about them 1282755480
Next year's 2011 International Consumers Electronics Show (CES), produced by the Consumers Electronics Association (CEA), will, for the first time ever, showcase a full range of electric vehicles (EVs), charging equipment and energy storage devices. In order to better understand America's ...
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ePower introduces the XT320E, a $47,000 3.5 ton truck with swappable batteries and 120-mile range 1282583640
ePower Trucks, a UK-based company, just introduced its XT320E 3.5t, a battery-powered light commercial vehicle that undercuts the price of most of its electric competition by a substantial margin. At £30,000 ($47,000 U.S. at the current exchange rate), the XT320E costs around half as much ...
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EV sellers will have to teach drivers to treat their car like their phone, plug it in! 1282427160
Chevrolet Volt – click above for high-res image galleryAs much as we talk about range anxiety here, the reality is the vast majority of drivers in America probably aren't even really aware of the term in the automotive context. Yet. But that's because only a tiny fraction of them have ever ... -
Video: Porsche owner electrifies his 928 1282345080
Electrified Porsche 928 – Click above to watch video after the jumpOver the years, we've seen the boxer engines ripped out of numerous Porsche 911s and replaced with electric motors and racks of batteries, but this may be the first time we've seen it done to a 928. Jeff McCabe started by ... -
Small electric car companies plan to ditch often-lousy car salesmen in favor of specialists at big box stores 1282323480
Consumers routinely rank their interactions with car dealerships as one of the least rewarding parts of the new car buying experience. In particular, dealing with an untrained and often-lousy car salesman makes the entire experience less than pleasing. Of course, there are a few ways to deal with ...
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Venture capitalist Khosla says U.S. will someday produce too much electricity 1282316460
The U.S. has relied upon conventional energy sources to meet our electrical demand for a long, long time. While conventional energy sources rarely failed to keep up with our burgeoning electrical demand, the recent interest in renewable energy sources may actually push supply beyond our needs. ...
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Study: UK demand for electric vehicles to surpass hybrids by 2020, hit 21% market share 1282262580
2011 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image galleryA new British study by Glass's Information Services Ltd. (GIS) is predicting that battery electric vehicles will overtake hybrids in UK market share and will reach a combined total of 21 percent by the end of the decade. That market ...
