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Consumer Reports Lists Least/Most Expensive Car Brands to Maintain

The Truth About Cars

“The difference to maintain a car on average between some brands can be thousands over a 10-year time frame,” says Steven Elek, Consumer Reports’ program leader for auto data analytics. Interestingly, the manufacturer that saw the lowest maintenance costs (at $4,035) over a 10-year period was Tesla. Image: Tesla]

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

It all started with the video. “They must think we’re retarded, taking money from Chevron and Exxon for our schools, scholarships, sponsoring environmental programs – can you believe that s**t?” Jesus, it’s not about your stupid blog.” We’re starting a freaking insurgency! No cameras.

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Greenius On The Green Scene - The South Bay Report

Creative Greenius

If you want to have your finger on the pulse of what’s happening on the South Bay green scene being on Dency Nelson’s Friends for A Green Hermosa Beach e-mail list is a pretty damn good place to start. Dency at the wheel of the all electric Tesla.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

based Fisker plans to produce just 15,000 plug-in hybrids a year, starting later this year, with pricing to start at $87,900. based Tesla Motors Inc. Tags: evdriven. The Irvine, Calif.-based Meanwhile, the San Carlos, Calif.-based is already selling an all-electric, zero-emission Roadster. Base price: $109,000.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Executives insist the program is on track, generally speaking, and Chrysler will be ready to produce cars on time. "To be able to meet a 2010 timeline, you have to be pretty far along in development, and right now we are," said Lou Rhodes, head of Chryslers electric car program, in a recent CNNMoney.com interview.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." Your comments: Remember me E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. “You may see that start to happen in the energy sector.

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