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With the Nissan Leaf, the Chevy Volt and other plug-in cars entering the market, potential buyers wonder: How will recharging stations work? What will a “fill up” cost? To answer those questions, Popular Mechanics talked to dozens of experts and spent a day with a hypothetical EV driver from the future. This is an excerpt [...]
A diesel-powered SUV from Japan is just over the horizon. This post originally appeared on the Popular Mechanics website, where you can read it in its entirety. Written by Ken Gross. Despite widespread acceptance of diesel engines in Europe (approximately 90 percent of the cars in the U.K. use diesels), Americans still shudder at the [...]
Aptera unveils a design-intent version of its all-electric 2E and insists that it’s on the road to financial stability. This post originally appeared on the Popular Mechanics website, where you can read it in its entirety. Written by Basem Wasef. CARLSBAD, Calif.—On Wednesday, Aptera’s vice president and chief engineer Tom Reichenbach unveiled a design-intent prototype of [...]
This year’s LA Auto Show is buzzing with real-life and concept hybrid and all-electric cars. But in the clean diesel corner, the crickets were chirping. Will Americans ever be ready for clean diesels? This post originally appeared on the Popular Mechanics website. You can access the original post here. Written by David Kiley. German automakers [...]
Popular Mechanics gets behind the wheel of the pre-production Chevy Volt and first experiences the car in pure-electric and sustained-charge modes. This post is an excerpt of an article from Popular Mechanics. You can read the full post (with video) on their website. Written by Barry Winfield. LOS ANGELES—We’ve been following the Chevy Volt as [...]
Beacon Power is working to build a smarter grid with a technology that has been around since Leonardo Da Vinci’s time. Here is how the simple, ubiquitous flywheel may become the next best hope for the U.S. electric grid. This post originally appeared at Popular Mechanics. You can read the full post on their website. [...]
The Progressive Automotive X-Prize, closing in on its May 2010 competition start date, held a technical summit of the participating 43 teams at the 2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas. Twelve of those teams brought along vehicles to display at the show, each one in varying degrees of completeness. This post is an excerpt of [...]
Volvo C30EV on the road. This post was written by Andrew English and originally appeared on the Popular Mechanics website. In this rough economic climate, it appears Volvo has weathered the storm. In September, Ford’s Swedish car-making arm, Volvo, showed a 16 percent sales increase over last year—one of only nine automakers to do so. [...]
