EV/Plug-in
Auto@CooOne visits our founder to try out his Tesla Roadster
Jason Calacanis was a co-founder, the professional blog network of which ABG and Auto@CooOne are a part. He also played a major part in the advent of Auto@CooOne before he left the company about a year after it was sold to AOL. Since a week and a half ago, Jason has also been the proud [...]
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LA 2008: Hyundai announces Blue Drive efficiency strategy, 2010 Sonata hybrid
Hyundai has joined the “Blue is the new green movement” at the LA Auto Show, where the Korean automaker has announced its “Blue Drive” efficiency strategy. The core of the plan is meet the federally-mandated 35 mpg fleet average economy requirement by 2015 rather than the 2020 date specified in last year’s energy bill. Hyundai [...]
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Bolwell interested in electric Nagari supercar
Now that Tesla has tested the waters, some other not-as-well known companies have announced that they, too, would like to explore the electric supercar waters. Bolwell, makers of the Nagari revival in Australia, are the latest to throw their names into the ring. Like Tesla, the company is reportedly not interested in going the hybrid [...]
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Honda and Yamaha to make electric motorcycles
“Make hay while the sun shines ‘cuz we’re on our way and we’re bringing some serious rain,” is the message Honda and Yamaha are sending to the new electric motorcycle companies that have been springing up like daisies. Only one of the two long-established Japanese brands has shown off battery-powered concepts in the recent past [...]
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Chrysler’s Jim Press making big claims for upcoming EVs
Chrysler’s co-president continued to talk up his employer’s plans for electrically-driven vehicles this week at a media luncheon in California. Press told the gathering that he had driven three different producible prototypes of plug-in hybrid vehicles recently. The vehicles have been developed by the new ENVI unit that was established in late 2007 specifically to [...]
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GM confirms plans to sell ER-EVs in Europe in 2011, 50 Volt prototypes this fall
GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said again this week that the company would launch E-Flex-based extended range EVs on the European market in 2011, about a year behind the Volt launch in North America. In his remarks, Forster referred to both petrol- and diesel-powered ER-EVs, although the last time we checked with GM they said [...]
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Planar Energy Devices plans to produce PowerBlade advanced battery in U.S.
With the rise of hybrid and electric cars, advances in battery technology have become increasingly important and so it is pleasing to hear of new companies whose products have promising properties. Such is the case with Planar Energy Devices which has just signed a licensing deal with Policell Technologies Inc. that will enable the company [...]
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Better Place all-electric Renault delayed?
Bad news for fans of the Better Place plan - maybe. According to a report on an Israeli business website, Renault executives at a conference in Geneva have said that the electric car bound for Israel, to be franchised by Shai Agassi’s Better Place, will be delayed by a year. However, the website also states [...]
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VIDEO: While Top Gear waits, Fifth Gear runs Tesla at Goodwood
A couple of weeks ago we told you that Tesla was talking to the producers of Top Gear about having Jeremy Clarkson try out the Roadster. At the time Darryl Siry told us nothing had been finalized yet and we don’t know if that has changed. What we do know is that the “other British [...]
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Paris Preview: more information about the Nissan Nuvu, no pics yet
Nissan is slowly giving up details about the Nuvu, an all-EV concept that will be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show. According to the Japanese marque, it’s a “new vision” about the type of cars we’ll be driving during the mid 2010s. It’s a small vehicle, only 3 meters (about 10ft) long and can seat [...]
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