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Green Car Congress Hybrid Scene

Green Car Congress is a website that takes a thoughtful, almost technical approach to reporting on the news and issues that affect hybrid and other alternatively-powered vehicles.  The site delves deep into the corporate machinations behind the scenes of the technologies that make their way to the market, and provides an insider’s perspective on green […]

6Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Nissan Leaf EV Tour

Anxious to show off their 100 percent electric Leaf plug-in automobile, Nissan has put together a mini-tour that will see the spunky compact car hit 22 cities in the United States starting in November.  An additional stop will also be made in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Nissan has been aggressively marketing the Leaf over the past 6 […]

6Mar2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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BMW Targets Premium Hybrid Market

It’s not often that an electric car blows away expectations when it comes to performance, but Audi rewrote the rule book at the Frankfurt Auto Show with their e-tron concept.  This dashing all-wheel drive sports car, based largely on the look of their successful R8 high performance vehicle, makes use of four electric motors to […]

6Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mitsubishi Hybrid Heavy Trucks

The Mitsubishi Fuso Canter is a workhorse transport truck familiar to many different industrial and commercial clients around the world, but it has also recently been exported as one of the first international diesel / electric hybrid heavy trucks.
Although available in Japan since 2006, the Fuso Canter has just been shipped off to clients in […]

6Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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SABA Motors Electric Car Prototype

More than a decade after California’s Silicon Valley boom - and bust - it would seem as though the next technological revolution underway in the Pacific state is in the field of electric cars.  SABA Motors has inched even closer to releasing their Spider roadster prototype for the media and EV fans alike to drool […]

6Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Autoblog Green Offers Instant Fix

Although there are numerous blogs available which cover the car industry as a whole, there aren’t all that many which religiously update news centered around the green car movement.  Autoblog Green is an exception to the rule, offering an almost round-the-clock news feed that collects interesting, quirky and important electric, hybrid and alternative fuel stories […]

28Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fisker Benefits From Federal Cash Boost

California electric car company Fisker received $528.7 million in federal loans in September from the U.S. Energy Department.  Some of the cash will go towards bringing the long-awaited hybrid Karma luxury sedan to market, but the lion’s share of the funding is targeted at a family-oriented gasoline / electric model called Project Nina.
The plug-in hybrid, […]

28Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Audi Brings “A” Game to Frankfurt Auto Show

It’s not often that an electric car blows away expectations when it comes to performance, but Audi rewrote the rule book at the Frankfurt Auto Show with their e-tron concept.  This dashing all-wheel drive sports car, based largely on the look of their successful R8 high performance vehicle, makes use of four electric motors to […]

28Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Zenn Motors Pulls out of Electric Derby

Fans of pure electric vehicles were disappointed to hear that Toronto, Ontario’s Zenn Motors will not be expanding on their promising lineup of low-speed city cars.  The company had planned to build and distribute the cityZENN, a battery-powered car that would offer highway speed driving as well as city runabout functionality.
Abandoning this strategy, Zenn Motors […]

28Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Toyota Plays Hard To Get With The 2010 Prius

The price of the 2010 Toyota Prius has been subject to significant fluctuation since the redesigned model was introduced to North America earlier this year.  The Prius’ original MSRP was slashed after Honda announced that their Insight competitor would undercut it by a great deal.  Toyota was able to bring the entry-level Prius down to […]

28Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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