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With a sticker price of just $29,990 (before a $7500 federal tax rebate) Mitsubishi will sell you a brand-new, Mitsubishi i SE, complete with 66 hp highway-legal electric motor, premium sound system, a gussied-up interior (below), and more – which means Mitsu’s i comes in at several thousand dollars less than even the base Nissan [...]
If you’re an avid GranTurismo player, then Oullim’s Spirra sportscar is something you’ve already got a good handle on. For the uninitiated, however, I’ll keep it brief: the Spirra is Korea’s answer to the Honda/Acura NSX, and – despite some shortsighted preconceptions about its county of origin – it has all the bona-fides of a [...]
Alternative fuel racers like Oliver Young are taking clean racing to new levels. Over the weekend Young’s “Black Current” EV Beetle dragster was the first street-bodied EV to run the quarter mile in 9 seconds, an impressive feat for sure. Black Current first made waves over the summer when this unassuming 1960’s Beetle obliterated a [...]
It is telling of my age, perhaps, that I had originally thought to begin this article with a reference to “Voodoo Economics.” Even so, there is very little voodoo in the idea that reducing America’s foreign oil dependence/addiction is a good thing. It’s such a good idea, in fact, and so integral to “national security [...]
Back in September, Volvo announced plans to build an electric car that used photo-reactive body panels to generate electricity for its batteries. Not many details were given at the time, but a recent article on Cleantechnica covering Wysips may give us clues about what Volvo is working on, and point the way towards solar-powered iPads [...]
Suzuki’s new EcoCharge Hybrid “concept” made a quiet debut at last week’s New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), slotting itself in as an (arguably) more stylish rival to Ford’s hot-selling Fusion hybrid. Suzuki’s hybrid is powered by a 2.0 L gasoline engine, which is “boosted” by a 15 kw belt-driven electric motor to deliver a [...]
So now we potentially get a glimpse at the “dark side” of electric cars. I say “potentially” because firefighters and other officials have yet to determine the exact cause of a garage fire in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, which claimed the lives of the two electric cars as they innocently charged overnight. One of the cars was [...]
Trust a Scandinavian country to be well ahead of the curve on green energy. Having lived in Vaxjo, Sweden (which is quite possibly the greenest city in Europe) for nearly six months, I can tell you that the Swedes take this green energy stuff quite seriously. So it should come as no surprise that the [...]
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