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Audi Sport wins 1st FIA Formula E race in Beijing

Green Car Congress

(Next weekend, di Grassi will return to the cockpit of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid sports car in round four of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Austin). The racer accelerates from 0 - 100 km/h (0-62 mph) in 3 seconds, and has a maximum speed of 225 km/h (150 mph).

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Tata Takes On Air

Plug In Partners

It is anticipated that approximately 6000 Air Cars will be cruising the streets of India by 2008. The CityCat model will clock out at 68 mph with a driving range of 125 miles. At Austin Energy we recently converted two of the utility’s Priuses to plug-ins. The Air Car uses compressed air to push its engine's pistons.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Shouldn’t the article above have been placed in the muscle car section, not the weenie tree hugger section?: “The Chevy Volt feels “particularly muscular&# up to about 30 mph, CNN reports, though its actual zero-to-sixty time is “about average for a modern car.&# [link] “ — Electric drive performance.

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