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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 ... -
Paris 2010 preview: Kia adding fizz with all-electric Pop Concept 1282139760
Kia Pop Concept – Click above for high-res image galleryWhen the Paris Motor Show opens up next month, Kia will roll out a new battery-powered commuter concept. Thus far, Kia has only released a few details about its door-stop-shaped Pop Concept, including its sub-10-foot length and its ... -
Some numbers regarding electric cars, both good and better 1282071420
There are a lot of different ways to measure how electric cars will impact our lives, perhaps as many ways to measure as there will be changes to our daily transportation in the coming years. Today, we present two options, one that shows an overall comparison between powering our vehicles using ... -
16 Chinese companies team up to form "Association of the Electric Vehicle Industry" 1281891660
According to a report from China's Global Times, 16 of the countries state-owned companies will meet next week in Beijing to formally announce the creation of the "Association of the Electric Vehicle Industry." The association will work on setting unified standards for electric vehicles (EVs) and ...
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Martin Eberhard predicts 500-mile range for the electric vehicles of 2020 1281733560
Volkswagen E-Up! Concept – Click above for high-res image galleryThe guy who helped bring us the 250-mile electric vehicle (EV) thinks we will be able to go a lot further on a full pack of batteries in ten years. Yes, Martin Eberhard, one of the co-founders of Tesla Motors who is now ... -
Electric car company BG Automotive Group calls it quits 1281708240
Back in 2008, Barry Bernstein, a Philadelphia-based steel wholesaler, dreamed of bringing reliable, safe and affordable electric vehicles to the American car-buying public. He envisioned a future where large trucks and SUVs no longer dominated our roadways and decided that by electrifying ... -
At Witz' End - Electric vehicle progress, prospects and challenges 1281034560
2010 Plug-in Prius Prototypes – Click above for high-res image galleryGreat start, but long road ahead I just returned from the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) Management Briefing Seminars in beautiful Traverse City, MI, and don't have much electric vehicle (EV) news to report from ... -
Maker Faire Detroit 2010: Amick A2 wind-assisted electric
spaceshipvehicle 1280611020Amick A2 – Click above for high-res image galleryOne of the makers that we encountered setting up of the Maker Faire Detroit on Friday afternoon was Douglas Amick. Amick was unloading the A2, a three-wheeled, battery-powered, wind-assisted tandem-two-seater. The A2 was originally built by ... -
All-electric Saab 9-3 test fleet to launch in early 2011 1280580120
Saab 9-3 – Click above for high-res image galleryDuring a media launch for the 2011 Saab 9-5, company executives revealed plans to introduce a test fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) based on the upcoming 9-3. As Inside Line reports, Saab execs confirmed that the test fleet of EVs will roll ... -
General Motors to establish global BEV test fleet, build New Sail EV prototype 1280212200
Chevrolet New Sail – Click above for high-res image gallerySpeaking at the Plugging Into the Future Forum at the Shanghai World Expo today, General Motors' Global Vehicle Engineering VP Karl Stracke announced the creation of a test fleet of battery electric vehicles. The fleet will be ... -
Porsche testing three electric Boxsters 1280149080
Porsche Boxster – Click above for high-res image galleryPorsche has been dabbling in vehicle electrification over the last several years, ranging from the plug-in hybrid 918 Spyder concept and the 911 GT3R hybrid racer to the new Cayenne hybrid that recently went into production. The ...
