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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

Searching by Body Type or price range may open up surprising options for you like the fact that Hyundai and Kia make some of the best affordable electric SUV crossovers on the market. For the Hyundai Kona below, EV Life estimates it will take one hour to recharge 5 miles.). Make an EV charging plan. Level 2 Chargers. Public charging.

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Chevrolet Spark EV: speedy, smooth and quiet; the importance of motor control

Green Car Congress

seconds); efficient (combined city/highway 119 MPGe); affordable (as low as $17,495 in California net after Federal and state rebates); fun-to-drive electric vehicle targeted for the urban environment. Currently, DOE data suggests that 90% of charging is done at home.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. To recharge 20 kilowatt-hours of capacity in 5 minutes requires 240 kilowatts of electricity. But besides that, the only electronics potentially benefiting from THIS breakthrough are RCs and household rechargeable batteries.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Kim said the popularity of electric vehicles “will be a function of a lot of different things: the state of the economy, how many people can actually afford to buy the cars and the price of gasoline — how high does it have to be?”.

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Mitsubishi to begin offering customers test drives of North American spec i-MiEV in November

Green Car Congress

Mitsubishi is positioning the North American i-MiEV electric vehicle as the most affordably-priced mass-produced EV available in the US. Click to enlarge. Subjective impressions. Media attending had the opportunity for a brief driving exposure over the course of an afternoon to the i-MiEV under different conditions.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. we could not afford to do anything like this." Wang says the engineers come from Chinas best schools.

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