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Do not drive over 88 mph: all-electric DeLorean for sale on eBay

Great Scott! An all-electric 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 is now up on eBay for the bargain price of $15,600. Well, it'd be a bargain if it could jump through time and wasn't under the reserve price. The one-off conversion was done by the seller and a friend and uses a WarP 9 electric motor that gets juice from thirteen 12 volt 100 amp-hour deep cycle Deka 9A31 Intimidator AGM batteries (they take up the trunk and underhood spaces. These can power the car for a 40-mile range and recharge in eight hours from a standard wall plug or 2-3 hours from a ... Read more →

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Continental says yes to EVs, no to diesels Sebastian Blanco

While many automakers are getting a bit bullish about diesel cars in America (see Mercedes, Nissan and VW), a board member of parts supplier Continental AG told Handelsblatt (via Thompson Financial) ...

"You say an electric car will cost me? No problem." Sebastian Blanco

How can we figure out how much potential electric car buyers are willing to pay for their battery-powered rides? Why not just ask them? That's what Liberty Electric Cars did at the recent Eden ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1981 Ford Fairmont electric car made by NASA? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click on the image for more high-res shots Up for auction today on eBay is an extremely interesting 1981 Ford Fairmont. It's not interesting because it's a Ford Fairmont... 'cause they're not all ...

VIDEO: $10,000 electric car coming this year? Domenick Yoney

Driving a Ford-branded Th!nk Neighbor (NEV) around Pasadena wasn't good enough for Bill Provence. He wanted more speed, more safety and a little more protection from the elements. So, he did what any ...

NY Times writes about the history of electric drag racing 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Sunday's New York Times has an article about the National Electric Drag Racing Association. According to the Times, the organization was founded by John Wayland and Roderick Wilde in 1997 after a few beers and coming up with an important sounding name. In 1999, the National Hot Rod Association ...

Montana ZENN dealer Eco Auto talks to Electric Cars Are For Girls 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Readers who click through all of the links that we offer you in a day might remember Ron Gompertz, the owner of Eco Auto, Inc. He was mentioned in an article on MSNBC about eco-car dealers in the U.S. Lynne Mason over at Electric Cars Are For Girls has gotten hold of Gompertz for a lengthy Q&A ...

Lutz: Chevy Volt will be road-tested in early 2008 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

After his dismissive comments about the Chevy Volt's styling at a dinner with bloggers the night before the LA Auto Show got started, Bob Lutz saddled up to reporters from larger news organizations and talked up the Volt by mentioning that the concept vehicle will be road-tested early next year, ...

LA 2007 Preview: Are there really any new ideas? 1900 Porsche EV! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In the last couple of years, green car enthusiasts have gotten all hot and bothered by the idea of cars like the Tesla Roadster, Zap-X and Chevrolet Volt. And while these cars and others seem incredibly innovative today, in reality they all have roots in cars built over a century ago by one of the ...

RHCP's Flea gets funky with a Tesla Roadster, loves it 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

If you've ever seen the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you know that bassist Flea is some sort of interstellar energy trapped in the body of a human. He jumps around like the floor is electric and he's wearing a wet Speedo that's dripping water down his legs. Should he stay still for too long, zap! In ...

Denmark's ambitious plans for EV motoring around the country 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

According to the words from Denmark's Minister of Transport and Energy in the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, the Scandinavian country really want all-electric cars to be on the road. "At the moment the officials are studying the project. The legal matters need to be in place. However, I am ...

Which songs are on your electric car play list? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The video above includes the song "She's Electric" by Oasis which is perfect for an EV commercial. Below the fold is a video which includes the song "Enviro Girl" by Corky and the Juice Pigs which starts off with the line "I'll buy you an electric car." These two songs got me to thinking about what ...

China regulates development of new energy automobiles 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

OK, China, you're on notice. Not by Stephen Colbert, but by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Oh, and it's not everyone in China, but just "manufacturers for automobiles powered by new energies." What are new energies? Chinaview says it means "hybrid cars, battery electric ...

Carlist's Lou Ann Hammond fills up at the plug 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Lou Ann Hammond is getting ready to drive the future. Solar panels, a smart meter and - at some point - a plug in car like the Chevy Volt or PHEV Prius. Gritty planning details are in Hammond's post over at Carlist, which is worth reading. Hammond lives in Placer County, California and gets ...

C-NET tries to count all the electric car start-ups 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

C-NET's Michael Kanellos did a little thinking out loud this week when he tried to list all of the electric car start-up companies (not major automakers working on EVs). He counted 16 small companies. The names on this list will be familiar to just about anyone who reads AutoblogGreen, but I ...

Alt Cat Expo 2007: OKA, the cheap, inexpensive, not pricey NEV 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The OKA NEV booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo caught people's attention for one simple reason: a price tag of $7,500. The OKA neighborhood electric vehicle is an interesting little car - seriously unhip, cheap and ready for you today. The details are not that great - 20 mile range, 25 mph top ...

Tango begone (someday)! George Clooney moves into fuel cells 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While George Clooney is best known on these pages at a Tango electric car driver (what, is there some other reason he's famous?), Ecorazzi recently mentioned a move that Mr. Clooney is making that may help develop a fuel cell for automobiles. This sentence over at Cultures and Traditions caught the ...

Miles Automotive tried to stop Tesla from getting "advanced air bag" exemption 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Recently, I wrote about a small, public fight between Aptera and Tesla over safety. It was just a few remarks and there are just a handful of electric car companies. Could they actually be fighting each other behind the scenes? Yes, and the fights have apparently gotten really serious. According to ...

Toyota doesn't think China is ready for electric cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Do hybrids and pure electric cars help reduce CO2 emissions? Not in China, according to Tatehito Ueda, a managing officer at Toyota Motor Corp, in this article from Reuters. The problem, as you might expect, is how China produces its electricity (mostly from coal). Ueda told Reuters, "In France, 80 ...

Alt Car 2007: The miniskirt and the Electric Vehicles panel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There a palpable difference in audience members who attend panels on hydrogen cars and those who go and listen to speakers talking about battery electric vehicles. The enthusiasm of the people at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo's hydrogen panel on Saturday (which you can hear and read about here) was ...

Ecooter - the bizarre new Chinese electric car that shall not be named in polite company 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/Bizarre_new_Chinese_electric_car'; So, who can read Chinese? There are a heap of photos of the new Ecooter (gesundheit!) electric commuter vehicle on this page, but all of the text is in Chinese. Thankfully, the China Post has some information on the ...

Tesla puts it's Energy Group on hold for now 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last spring, Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard and Th!ink CEO Jan-Olaf Willums announced a deal for Tesla to supply battery packs for the Norwegian electric cars. The silicon valley startup had created a new division dubbed the Tesla Energy Group to design and build lithium ion battery packs to ...

The electric car, darling of the 1907 Auto show 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

If you're at all familiar with the 100+ year history of the electric car, then the fact that there are women in the photo above should not surprise you on whit. If you need a refresher, check out this post on women and electric cars and this one on women and greener driving. OK, so, what's the ...

Do big company electric car concepts herald trouble ahead for Tesla and other start-ups? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We've bringing exciting news - in the most recent cases, from the Tokyo Motor Show preview series - about major automakers that are bringing out all-electric concepts. Last week, for example, we learned about the very practical Subaru G4e. Back at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Nissan announced it will ...

Smashing Roadsters at a thousand frames per second (Video of Tesla crash tests) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Smashing_Roadsters_at_a_thousand_frames_per_second'; Recently, we wrote that Tesla's director of communications enjoyed crashing the company car in Project Gotham Racing 4. How about a taste of the real thing? Below the fold is a video from Gadgetoff 2007 of ...

Zap-X, a normal electric car, "months" away? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The product of the Zap-Lotus agreement, the Zap-X, a normal looking, electric, four door sedan, just might be "months" away from mass production. China.org.cn is reporting China's Youngman Automotive Group, the guys making the car for Zap, said they could deliver a test car to Zap by the end of ...

All-electric BYD F6E sedan could debut in China in 2008. Maybe 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We told you the other day about reports that Chinese automaker BYD was planning to introduce a hybrid car to the Chinese market int 2008. It now appears that they might be planning to go all the way, as it were, and build a full battery electric car. China Car Times is reporting that In addition to ...

Video: French electric La BlueCar in action 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A few months ago we showed you the BlueCar, a prototype made by French company Bolloré and today we've got two videos that provide us more information about it, albeit in French. First of all, the car was just a prototype. So although it was designed by the creator of the Renault Espace ...

Dog & Lemon Guide slams electric cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The New Zealand car buying guide, the Dog & Lemon Guide, says electric cars "simply don't make economic or environmental sense." The guide has so much influence that Meridian, a New Zealand power company, is questioning an electric car project. Here are some of the problems the Dog & Lemon ...

New Zealand's electric car leadership 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I particularly like this line in a recent story about electric cars in New Zealand: "Electric cars have been desired and designed, discounted and debunked, built and broken for many decades." Those debunked and broken aspects might soon (well, within five years) come to an end in New Zealand, should ...

Mitsubishi's i-EV moving towards production, available perhaps in 2008 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While there are electric cars available today, no large automaker is offering one. Mitsubishi might just be the first out of the gate with a plug-in car (not a hybrid) called the i-EV (aka i-MiEV). If sources withing the company are telling The Daily Telegraph in Australia the truth, the small ...

"If you stop coal, you stop global warming." 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Sure, we all like to imagine the day when the whole world can drive ultra-clean cars, but all our hybrids and biodiesel trucks and solar-powered Priuses won't make a lick of difference in the fight to stop or slow global warming, says Ed Mazria, founder of Architecture 2030. Mazria was speaking at ...

Alaska teen converts his own electric car, a 1971 Super Beetle 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There's a fairly underground movement among teenagers that bubbles up now and again here on AutoblogGreen. These high school students are working in shop classes, civics classes and after school groups - and sometimes on their own - to actually do something to help the environment by working on (or ...

ZAP enters into joint venture with China's Youngman for new EVs, hybrids 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It's another great day in Zap PR land. The electric vehicle company has signed a deal with the Chinese luxury bus manufacturer Youngman Auto Group to jointly work on electric and hybrid vehicles. The announcement says that the two companies "have signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture, ...

NYT: normal, affordable electric cars don't exist 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Normal_affordable_electric_cars_don_t_exist'; Sunday's New York Times has an article about the complete lack of a normal electric car the average person can afford. There are smaller vehicles you can buy and you can search Ebay for a good conversion or a ...

George Clooney reminds us to be safe out there when riding on two wheels 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We often bring you the latest information on two-wheeled riding, because it can be a great way to save on some gas. We also like to offer friendly reminders in most of those posts, because no matter how good of a rider you are, you are still at the mercy of the other motorists on the road. And, I ...

That cool new electric car could cost you a lot more to charge up 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A basic principal of economics is that of supply and demand. If demand for a commodity rises and the supply does not, the price increases. With demand for electricity in the US expected to increase by fifty percent over the next three decades and expansion of generating capacity in a holding pattern ...

The Top Ten electric vehicles you can buy right now (for the most part) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/The_Top_Ten_electric_vehicles_you_can_buy_right_now_for_the_most_part'; I think all the news of the Tesla Roadster and the Chevy Volt that came out since last summer has reminded a lot of people that there are some serious contenders to the gasoline ...

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