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The French are coming. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Its first electric vehicle was the Peugeot 106 Electric, which was sold between 1995 and 2003. The PROLOGUE puts the internal combustion engine up front and runs on diesel, while the RC uses petrol with the electric motor going at the back.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol.

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