Hybrid and Electric Cars News published on January 28, 2012

• Despite tepid demand, automakers rushing hybrids to market
  The Toyota Prius, like these operated by the New York City Department of Transportation, makes up about half of all hybrid cars on the road today. (Photo by Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz via Wikimedia Commons.) Hybrid cars account for just 2.5 percent of …
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• Tech Report: Mitsubishi i, Eco-friendly Car

  With a fuel economy equivalent of 112 miles per gallon, the i, Mitsubishi says, is the most affordable electric car out there. Other electric and hybrid cars have been gaining popularity in the US recently, and Mitsubishi is making their entry in with … See all stories on this topic »

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• Electric Vehicles: Conservative Media Recklessly Distort Volt Safety
  Conservative media have misrepresented the results of electric car Chevy Volt crash tests, claiming the lithium ion batteries "blow up" and are a "fire trap," and suggesting that fires have occurred during use. In fact, fires only occurred after crash …
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• Obama Administration Gave Electric Car Battery Maker $118 Million Grant …
  by Wynton Hall The latest taxpayer-funded boondoggle to emerge from the Obama Administration's infamous Energy Department grant and loan program has cost taxpayers $118.5 million, new bankruptcy filings by electric battery maker Ener1 reveal.
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• Obama-backed electric car battery firm files for bankruptcy protection …
  Ener1, an electric car battery company that the Obama administration awarded a … Lehman Bros files for bankruptcy · Electric cars must be taxed to pay for more …
  www.infowars.com/obama-backed-electric-car-battery-firm-fil…
• Old Electric Car Batteries to Find Second Life on the Power Grid …
  Could old electric car batteries find a second life on the power grid as storage for … It's not because a battery pack isn't good enough for an electric or hybrid car …
  www.treehugger.com/…/electric-car-batteries-being-tested-grid…
• Hiriko folding electric car headed for production
  One very unusual electric car has debuted in Brussels. The Hiriko EV uses a hub- mounted electric motor at each wheel, though that's not the most.
  green.autoblog.com/…/hiriko-folding-electric-car-headed-for-…
• For the Electric Car, A Slow Road to Success
  Behind them on the company's stand was the eNV200, a plug-in version of one of Nissan's minivans and one of three new electric cars Nissan will have on the road by 2015. Brendan Jones, a Nissan marketing and sales strategist, told me, …
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• Bus Board Approves Charging Station For Electric Vehicles
  After several discussions – most in executive session – the board of directors approved the 15-year lease agreement Thursday with Aero Vironment, Inc., a company from California trying to stay a step ahead of the curve for the pending electric car …
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• Is The Lit-Air Battery Finally the Electric Car Breakthrough?
  Electric cars seem like such a good idea. After all, isn't anything electric, almost by definition, better than anything that's not? Electric can openers, electric clocks, electric lawnmowers, electric carving knives, electric toothbrushes, …
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• Toyota wraps up first TS030 test

  By Pablo Elizalde Toyota completed on Friday its first full test with the new TS030 Hybrid car that will compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours this year. The Japanese manufacturer, which will race in selected events of the FIA World Endurance Championship, … See all stories on this topic »

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• The reporting behind Friday's stories on Indiana's electric car dreams

  Why not electric cars? But when I checked back in, it seemed things hadn't gone as I — and apparently the politicians — had expected. I wanted, needed to understand why. The city has improved its unemployment rate through sheer will, … See all stories on this topic »

  Chicago Tribune

• Radnor EAC delves into electric car infrastructure

  Electric Cars and Their Infrastructure was the topic for this part of the series. Community Energy marketing director Jay Carlis, Ercolani along with Mike Townsend from Thomas Chevrolet of Media, Scott Baker of PJM Interconnection and Brad Molotsky of … See all stories on this topic »

  Main Line

• Chromebooks are the electric car of laptops
  But the Chromebook looks right now to the average laptop buyer like an all-electric car looks to the average car buyer: full of what-if questions and untested theories of living. If you're working mostly inside a school or your home, or if your company …
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• El Chorro restaurant adds 3 car chargers
  Three electric car chargers in the parking lot, installed in early January. Operating partner Tim Moore said the chargers, which can be used to power up most electric cars, such as the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, are the final additions to the …
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• Berlin Police More Green Than Blue With New Electric Cars
  … amount of greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere, some slightly smaller efforts nearly slip through the cracks. The city of Berlin, Germany is making one of those efforts by furnishing its police department with a fleet of electric and hybrid cars.
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• Investors take note as Gen Y avoids electric-only powered cars

  The Deloitte survey also found that 57 per cent of Gen Y prefers petrol-electric hybrid cars. Although this sounds like great news for the electric-car industry, the findings also reveal that most Gen Y consumers in these three key markets have no … See all stories on this topic »

  The National

• Focus: Tech bet sours for Elkhart, Ind., as electric carmaker Think, battery …

  "By giving money to the battery company and electric car company, they are saying we want you to buy their products even though we know you don't want them.'' Indiana's total losses aren't immediately known. Katelyn Hancock, a spokeswoman for the … See all stories on this topic »

  Chicago Tribune

• Condo owner must pay for meter or unplug electric car

  An Ottawa man is fighting the board of the condominium complex where he lives because it does not want him charging his electric car on other residents' dimes. The board's president has told condo owner Mike Nemat that an outlet he has used to charge … See all stories on this topic »

  CBC.ca

• Flashback: Biden Praises Obama-Financed Electric Car Battery …
  Tweet. Vice President Biden visited Ener1, January 26, 2011, the day after the President pledged in his State of the Union address to put one million advanced technology vehicles on the road by 2015 with the help of taxpayer funding.
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