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Push the Plug
Nissan wants to offer you an electric car by 2010 |
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13 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:21 PM on 13 May 2008 Nissan wants to bring electric cars to the U.S. and Japan by 2010 and to the world by 2012, the automaker announced Tuesday. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in 2005 called gas-electric hybrids "niche products," but he's changed his tune, declaring that his company is determined to demonstrate "zero-emission-vehicle leadership." While General Motors and Toyota also have plans to bring ele ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, news (all these topics) |
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What is the Vectrix?
Electric bike zips up Berkeley hills with ease |
Adam Browning |
24 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Think Again
All-electric car coming to the U.S. next year |
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22 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:57 AM on 22 Apr 2008 Reasonably priced, all-electric cars are coming soon to a California near you. (And then to the rest of the U.S. before too long.) Think Global, which was sold by Ford Motor Co. to Norwegian investors in 2003, will partner with two venture capital firms to mass-produce the battery-powered Think City in the U.S., starting next year. About the size of a Mini Cooper, the Think City is a two-seater but has ro ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Fortune Brainstorm Green
Test driving a fully electric car |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Fortune Brainstorm Green: breaking news
Think all-electric vehicles coming to the U.S. |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, cars, innovation, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Fortune Brainstorm Green
Shai Agassi talks electric cars in Israel |
David Roberts |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, climate, electric vehicles, energy, innovation, Israel, oil (all these topics) |
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Fashion before function
The automotive equivalent of high heels |
Adam Browning |
11 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Put a River in Your Tank
Electric cars could impact water supplies, says analysis |
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18 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:53 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Converting most U.S. vehicles to run on electricity could have an impact on water supplies, according to an analysis to be published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Generating the needed electricity would require more water than producing gasoline, the report found -- that is, if the nation's electricity grid continues to be powered by coal and other fuels that ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fossil fuels, news, placemaking, water crisis (all these topics) |
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Killing the electric car again: Part II
Take action and express your opinion to California regulators |
Joseph Romm |
14 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Killing the electric car, again: Part I
Is CARB up to its old tricks? |
Joseph Romm |
13 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, California, cars, electric vehicles, energy (all these topics) |
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Juice of the future
Everything you could possibly want to know about batteries |
Joseph Romm |
13 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics) |
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This guy has it figured out
The SOZEV/train combo commute |
biodiversivist |
13 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, green living, innovation, placemaking, tech (all these topics) |
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This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead
Years after everyone else, GM and Toyota execs skeptical about hydrogen cars |
Joseph Romm |
06 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, energy, green living, hydrogen (all these topics) |
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Internal combustion news
Volkswagen's new entry to the clean diesel fleet |
Erik Hoffner |
04 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, oil (all these topics) |
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Lutz strikes back
GM exec defends calling climate change a 'crock of shit' |
David Roberts |
22 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, electric vehicles, energy (all these topics) |
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Solar to the electric car: You complete me
The electrification of transportation will also help green the grid |
Adam Browning |
30 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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This is a very big deal
Israel to build national electric car infrastructure |
Adam Browning |
22 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, Israel (all these topics) |
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Turn on, plug in, drop out
Plug-in hybrids and electric cars: A core climate solution, nationally and globally |
Joseph Romm |
22 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Why Vinod Khosla is very wrong
A pragmatic view of cellulosic biofuels |
Joseph Romm |
17 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, cellulosic ethanol, electric vehicles, energy, ethanol, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part III
Hybrids and biofuels: The road ahead |
Vinod Khosla |
16 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Business-y news I should write more about, but probably won't
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David Roberts |
15 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, cars, cellulosic ethanol, electric vehicles, energy, ethanol, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part II
Hybrid emissions: Facts and numbers |
Vinod Khosla |
15 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part I
Prius: Green or greenwash? |
Vinod Khosla |
14 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, energy, ethanol, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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The Extreme (plug-in) Hybrid: no breakthrough needed!
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Joseph Romm |
13 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Major advance in plug-in hybrid design
Watch CBS this Saturday for breaking electric-car news |
Joseph Romm |
11 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, innovation, TV (all these topics) |
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