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VIDEO: Killacycle rider sets quarter mile record... in a Tesla Roadster Sport?

It was another record-setting weekend for Killacycle pilot Scotty Pollachek at the Wayland Invitational drag racing event at the Portland International Raceway. However, he wasn't mounted atop the world's quickest electric ride during the accomplishment. Instead, he sat behind the wheel of the first-delivered 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport. Although its owner had taken the Sport's new car smell down the quarter mile in 12.82 seconds, it took an experienced 135-lb driver accustomed to the red, yellow and green Christmas tree trackside to shave ... Read more →

Tesla Roadster races 387 km (240 miles) on a single charge in France, Monaco Xavier Navarro

Not long ago, the guys at Top Gear had the chance to enjoy a Tesla Roadster (sadly, the video of that much-discussed event is no longer available). Two things Jeremy Clarkston and crew criticized ...

Toyota RAV4 EV eBay auction resolved, still a record Domenick Yoney

We've been following the saga of a 2001 Toyota RAV4 EV that came up for auction on eBay and sold for a record-setting (as far as we know) bid of $89,200. Unfortunately, for the seller, monkeydude12, ...

Jesse James to break land speed record in hydrogen car but says Gore is still "a dork" Lascelles Linton

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/celebrity/Call_HIM_a_Treehugger_He_would_kick_my_a'; Michigan Live caught up with popular custom bike maker and host of Monster Garage, Jesse James, at the Detroit Auto ...

Whew! Price of crude oil hits $88.20 Lascelles Linton

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BREAKING: Oil reaches all time high of $80/barrel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The price of a barrel of oil hit a record intra-day trading high of $80.05. It hit $80.18 in intra-day trading on Globex. That's more than a dollar higher than the old record of $78.77 set August 1. The price of oil is up on worries of supply shortages after a Energy Information Administration ...

Fuel prices Down Under up and down 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It seems that Australian petrol prices are even more volatile than I imagined. Just a week after predictions that petrol prices were likely to remain high during 2007, prices are now tipped to fall by as much as 10 cents a litre (US$0.30 per gallon) after world oil prices dropped to a 19-month low. ...

September sets another ethanol production record, sales also strong 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The September U.S. sales figures have just been released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and ethanol keeps going from strength to strength. The industry produced 333,000 barrels of ethanol per day which is a new production record. Demand though was even stronger at 380,000 barrels ...


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