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Limited: What's the value of talking about "range anxiety" all the time?

Here are three important facts about gasoline: It is available almost anywhere around the world it has tremendous energy content Using it the way we do creates a whole slew of negative environmental and political side effects It's hard to beat the first two items with a non-petroleum alternative, but those negative impacts (oh, and questions about its availability in the coming decades) are forcing us to try and find one. As regular readers know, the two most promising longer-term solutions are plug-in electric vehicles and ... Read more →

Is Nissan making a mistake with an overly optimistic range estimate for the LEAF? Sam Abuelsamid

Let's say right up front that we don't know for sure if Nissan's 100 mile range estimate for its new LEAF electric car is overly optimistic or not. No one outside of Nissan has actually tested the ...

MINI explains the drop in estimated range for MINI E Sam Abuelsamid

Those paying close attention might have noticed that as MINI USA has been delivering battery-powered MINI Es in recent weeks, the range estimate is being quoted as 100 miles. Last November, when ...

Prius software cuts possible electric only range by 80 percent Lascelles Linton

I went to the PHEV Symposium in Washington we mentioned yesterday. I talked to Bob Bruninga about his solar powered Prius. Bob's pitch is solar power is perfect for electric cars and hybrids because ...

Tesla engineer writes about maximizing range Sam Abuelsamid

Andrew Simpson is a Vehicle Systems Engineer at Tesla Motors and he is charged with squeezing every last mile of range out of the new Roadster. Andrew just put up a post on the Tesla blog where he ...


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