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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

While the goal is still a 2010 release, everything hinges on the Lithium battery thought to be the essential heart of the Volt. And is Lutz - purveyer of Hummers and Escalades - suggesting the environmental consequences of nickel mining are so great we must wait for lithium? And there's the rub. But hold on.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The introduction of affordable noise management systems offers multiple benefits to manufacturers and consumers alike, achieving eco-friendly optimization of vehicle weight reductions and improved CO2 emissions.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

before 2010. There is significant cause vs. effect debate on CO2. The problem for the left is that NG is still a carbon based fuel (note: you are a carbon based lifeform and exhale 12 liters of CO2 a minute.). Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry.