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Safest EVs, VW ID.4 update, Honda fuel-cell PHEV, Fiat’s EV future: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Will Americans embrace a small, two-door, urban-focused EV with well under 200 miles of range—potentially maybe with tech like battery-swapping? 2025 Renault 5 E-Tech Renault brought back a hot-hatch design from decades ago, in the form of the Renault 5 E-Tech EV —at a lower price than any electric car currently offered in the U.S.

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Raser Technologies and Hyundai Heavy Industries To Collaborate on Development of Renewable Energy and Extended Range Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

The agreement also sets forth the first phase of commercial production of electric fleet vehicles utilizing HHI’s high tech engineering and manufacturing capability and Raser’s extended range electric vehicle powertrain technology. At the 2009 SAE World Congress, Raser and FEV showcased a HUMMER H3 converted with the EREV powertrain.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

AutoblogGreen bloggers (30 days) # Blogger Posts Cmts 1 Jeremy Korzeniewski 123 4 2 Sebastian Blanco 111 11 3 Sam Abuelsamid 107 9 4 Domenick Yoney 32 0 5 Xavier Navarro 21 0 6 Jonathon Ramsey 1 0 7 Gary Witzenburg 1 0 8 Chris Paukert 1 0 Most Commented On (7 days) Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S. (61)

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Nokia cellphone batteries for example have been halved in size, which shows just how much better the tech is getting, without even getting into supercapacitors and alternate chemistry. ↓ ↑ report 7 jharlan 2:20PM (4/25/2009) You know, I still just have no use for a toy car at a real car price. Follow us on Twitter!

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Well need to spend some more time with the car to find out how it holds up over longer drives, but the powertrain tech obviously works. In California, 20% of our electricity comes from zero CO2 renewables (sun, wind, geothermal), another 20% from zero CO2 hydro, and only 20.1% to decide if we ever get to see these promises fulfilled.