Hybrid and Electric Cars News published on May 17, 2012

• Electric-Car Shoppers Head to Bill Jacobs Mitsubishi for the i-MiEV
  JOLIET, Ill., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The most affordable electric car in America has arrived at one of the leading Chicago area Mitsubishi dealerships and customers are excited to get their hands on it. The Mitsubishi iMiEV is an …
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• Porsche 918 Spyder future sportscar will claim $845000 price tag once it is …

  Production of this futuristic sportscar will commence sometime in September 2013 while buyers can avail of this spectacular plug in hybrid car by the end of next year. It will possess a 500 hp 4.0 liter V8 engine with two electric motors. See all stories on this topic »

  Rush Lane

• No longer be-Holden to the petrol bowser
  Holden yesterday unveiled the petrol pump of the future in the form of its first electric car charging station. The charger outside its Port Melbourne head office is the first of many that will allow owners of its Volt electric car to charge their …
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• Hybrids can be silent killers
  The problem that electric cars posed was apparent from the dawn of the motor industry, when primitive gas and electric vehicles were already battling for primacy. As early as 1900, journalist Cleveland Moffett was hailing the electric car as "the …
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• EV Rentals Help Drive Electric Car Introduction

  By Nicolas Zart on Wed, 05/16/2012 – 12:03 The Hertz Corporation is working with Source London's electric vehicle, EV charging network in order to facilitate electric car rentals and increase range. Hertz customers will have access to wide range … See all stories on this topic »

  Torque News

• Electric cars race again at 2nd Grand Prix de Pau Électrique [w/video]
  By Domenick Yoney RSS feed Once again the electric ice-racing cars of the Trophée Andros have left their snow-capped mountain-top habitat for a little summertime fun at the Grand Prix de Pau Electrique. And, just like last year, the Exagon-prepared …
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• Already time to recharge?

  Inventors are racing to find better ways to juice up our increasingly battery-powered lives, whether it's getting a longer charge on our smartphones or getting more miles out of electric cars. When Noam Kedem was strolling around the Consumer … See all stories on this topic »

  Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Buy an Electric Car, Keep Your Food from Spoiling | Climate Central

  GE introduces new conceptual advantage to owning an electric car: use the battery … A new … www.climatecentral.org/…/buy-an-electric-car-keep-your-food…

• Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car | The Energy Collective
  Keywords: chevrolet volt, electric cars, Electricity, nissan leaf, toyota prius, Transportation … PG&E Proposes New & Improved Rates for Electric Car Customers …
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• What's Killing the Electric Car? The Price of Batteries – Business …
  So Are Electric Cars Better, Batteries and All? How to Automatically Change an Electric Car Battery for $500K … Sponsored Video: How Does a Kia Hybrid Car Battery Work? How does the battery in a Kia Optima Hybrid work? by GOOD …
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• BMW Sees Potential Korean Electric-Car Market
  The German luxury car maker is hoping to replicate that success in the nascent electric car market with the introduction of two pure electric models – the i3 and the i8 – in 2014 following their global launch in 2013. BMW will be entering the local …
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• Volt! Who goes there? It's a current Holden, and you just charge it

  IN THE 2006 US film Who Killed the Electric Car?, oil companies and car makers were named as the guilty parties in California's ill-fated attempt in the 1990s to foster zero-emission vehicles. The federal Industry, Innovation, Climate Change and Energy … See all stories on this topic »

  The Age

• Oxford surges ahead as electric car centre
  OXFORD is to become an electric car hub with more charge points per head of population than any other European city. Government Transport Minister Norman Baker yesterday announced a £320000 project to install 64 new charging points for the city.
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• EXCLUSIVE: ALD Automotive research: Many business drivers would not switch to …
  More than half (68%) of drivers would not change their existing company car for an electric car, according to research by ALD Automotive. The research, which surveyed 1000 employee drivers, found the main reasons for this include: a lack of suitable …
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• Toyota RAV4 EV: Will anyone buy it?
  For anyone arguing recently that electric cars don't stand a chance in the US mass market, I would have offered one end-all example: the battery-powered Ford Focus at $40000. Now Toyota Motor Corp. (US:TM) offers even stronger ammunition in the form of …
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• Toyota urged to produce hybrid car in Indonesia
  By : Antara News Indonesia has asked Toyota to produce hybrid car in the country and the company has agreed to do it in 2014. “The ministry of industry has asked for the car to be marketed next year but Toyota has asked for it until 2014,” industry …
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• Hybrid cars, silent killers, may not be for long
  That's because NHTSA studies in 2009 and 2011 confirmed what many long suspected: Hybrids and electric cars are too quiet for some people to hear them coming. Though the NHTSA found little statistically significant difference in collisions over 35 mph …
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• Solar Charging Station For Electric Cars Unveiled By Bill Jacobs Auto Group

  On April 30th the Bill Jacobs Auto Group ushered in a new age of re-fuelling a vehicle when they opened up their brand-new vehicle solar charging station in Joliet, IL. The solar charging station, which is located in the middle of the Joliet, … See all stories on this topic »

  AZoCleantech

• Solenopsis Invicta EV is the lovechild of Red Fire Ant and Mars Rover
  However, designer Marco Aurelio Galan Henriquez believes that the Red Imported Fire Ant possesses a biological form that can be adapted to electric cars for the cities. This idea has been … The Solenopsis Invicta Electric Car is fashioned out of reinforced plastic and carbon fiber and the single seater comes with a chassis that is flexible like the shock-proof exoskeletons of arthropods which would enable it to ride smoothly over all kinds of terrains with ease. The Solenopsis Invicta …
  Designbuzz
• CO2 E – RACE: EARTH DAY NEW YORK – CO2 E DRIVE 2012 …
  However, there was some new players on the Electric/Hybrid Car scene since 2011. What also coincided with Earth Day in 2011, was the premiere of Chris Paine's "Revenge of the Electric Car" during Tribeca Film Festival. Bob Lutz, who was …
  CO2 E – RACE