Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Larger-than-life TV presenter Jay Leno is known for his love and obsession of cars--and not just those fueled by gasoline. To prove it, he tests one of the hottest electric cars around in his latest video--the 2012 Tesla Model S.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Jay Leno loves automobiles, you can easily decipher that based on his massive collection of cars that peaks at over 300 units. A supporter of all things that have four wheels and an engine, electric cars are among Leno’s favorite. “I mean, the electric car is here to stay.

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Teslarati

MAY 24, 2023

Tesla dominated the top four spots in a new survey from iSeeCars , which showed the twelve most-driven electric vehicles on average per year, with the Model X leading the way. Among the rest of the data is the Hyundai Kona in 5th (8,260), Chevrolet Bolt in 6th (7,753), and the Audi e-tron Sportback (7,210).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2012

With gasoline prices on the increase, many consumers are looking to buy a hybrid or plug-in hybrid as their next car in order to save gas and money.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2009

GM Europe staged the world premieres of the Opel Ampera, the European cousin of the Chevrolet Volt, and the Chevrolet Spark mini-car, at the Geneva Motor Show. The Ampera is an extended range electric vehicle based on the Voltec technology used in the Chevrolet Volt. Chevrolet Spark. Opel Ampera.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2012

One of the most common complaints we get at GreenCarReports is that we refer to the 2012 Chevrolet Volt as an electric car. Because it has a range-extending gasoline engine, some say, it is only a plug-in hybrid and therefore not worthy to be classed as an electric car.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 26, 2011

The 2011 Chevrolet Volt may be an extended-range electric car--or a plug-in hybrid, take your pick--but it's designed to promote the use of gasoline. Well, older gasoline, anyway.

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All Cars Electric

APRIL 7, 2011

Despite what GM wanted you to think when it first launched its brand new 2011 Chevrolet Volt, its four-seat extended range electric car or plug-in hybrid does consume gasoline. According to.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Which is likely why a staple of plug-in car forums is the bad-treatment-at-a-car-dealership story. Anecdotes abound about Chevrolet and Nissan dealers who tried to pull Volt and Leaf buyers away from plug-in electrics into gasoline cars. Or said, "Your battery will.'

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 23, 2015

When I traded in my 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car for a 2014 Chevrolet Volt, I wrote an article with the bold prediction that I would now use less gasoline even though my new car has a gasoline engine. Fuel Economy Range-Extended Electric Vehicle'

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2014 BMW i3 REx extended-range electric car gets an EPA-rated 39 mpg on gasoline, Nissan unveils New Orleans'' first public electric-car charging station, and Google and General Motors collaborate on a ride-sharing test. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2011

Electric cars, at the moment, cost more to buy than gasoline cars of similar size and with similar features, powertrain excepted. Leases on electric cars from mass-market brands like Nissan and Chevrolet are often a little more competitive.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 7, 2021

Great turnout despite the weather BY TIM BENFORD: PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. On June 9, the tour stopped in Dayton, where EAA’s Drive Electric Dayton (DED) chapter took the lead in making the arrangements, as well as staffing the event. with the most patents per capita.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 6, 2011

Electric cars like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and 2011 Fisker Karma get around the problem of range anxiety the old-fashioned way: They use gasoline engines. They do it because the battery systems of pure electric vehicles are large, heavy, and expensive, but the range they produce is still.limited.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2011

Most car buyers haven't even heard the term "range extender" yet. But over time, expect it to become more familiar, as electric cars like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt introduce the concept of a gasoline engine that turns a generator to produce electricity to power the vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2013

Range-extended electric cars are a great idea, mixing clean electric running for the majority of drivers' commutes, with an extra few hundred miles of gasoline running for those longer trips.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Infiniti has perceivable a idea that previews the emblem’s first electrical car. Prototypes for what’s considered the upcoming Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 took to the Nürburgring this month, and we have now brandnew pictures and video.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2012

So you got yer gasoline cars, and yer electric cars. And yer extended-range electrics, and yer plug-in hybrids. How about an electric car with a gasoline engine you can swap in and out as you need it? Sure, old news, been there, done that.

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Engine Design Extended Range Gasoline-Electric 131

Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s Getting Easier To Go Electric. One of these remarkable initiatives is the introduction of electric cars. Electric cars are a current trend. In 2019, the sales of electric vehicles totaled 1.1 million worldwide during the first half of the year, according to Edison Electric Institute.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2012

to buy a Chevrolet Volt. Since then, the retired pilot from Parsippany, New Jersey, has put almost 12,000 miles on his range-extended electric car--using just 26.1 gallons of gasoline while doing so. Two years ago tomorrow, Jeff Kaffee took possession of his keys and became the very first person in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

The research also indicates that consumers have relatively low product knowledge of electric-only and electric-hybrid vehicles and see electric technology vehicles as useful for those who do limited driving. Gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles rose from 15 to 22%.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 13, 2010

It's been one of the most-asked questions about the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car: So what kind of gas mileage will it get?

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 19, 2012

When General Motors launched the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid back in 2010, it chose to emphasize how it differed from electric cars by highlighting how its gasoline engine meant folks didn’t suffer from range anxiety.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2021

However, many are uninformed and misconceived, still believing electric vehicles are six-figure vehicles reserved for the rich and wealthy. Some commentors called for a defunding of the police deparment, while others said that local schools were suffering while police departments were buying “expensive” electric cars.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Be careful listening to self-anointed experts that owning a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is not a wise choice or viable option when buying a new car. Those truly in the know have real world knowledge of why a PHEV is the perfect bridge between a gasoline-powered car and one propelled by only electricity.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 3, 2009

Like the Volt, they are shooting for a 300 mile range with the first 40 miles all electric. The PHEV people are aiming at the 40 mile all electric range. You can see how the evolution to electric will happen. All Aboard the Bandwagon: Lotus Reportedly Planning Electric Car. Posted Today 01:05 PM by Carlos Lago.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Mitsubishi’s i-MIEV battery electric vehicle took the top spot from the Honda Civic Natural Gas on the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 14 th annual environmental ranking. Highly efficient conventional gasoline vehicles also continue to have a presence on the “Greenest” list, claiming three of the top twelve spots.

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EV Life

JUNE 8, 2023

The electric vehicle market has expanded rapidly in the last few years as automakers have introduced a variety of EV models to keep up with demand. These days, all-electric options are available in every type of vehicle, from high-horsepower electric sports cars to stylish electric luxury sedans to torque-heavy electric trucks.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car is clearly one of the most revolutionary vehicles to be sold in the U.S. It's a first battery electric car that relies solely on plugging into grid electricity for its the energy that powers it. in many years.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2011

Extended range electric automobiles like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt are at the cutting edge of automotive technology. When something goes wrong, there are often twice as many systems to consider, which can make repairs more complex than with a conventional gasoline powered or or a battery-electric car.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 5, 2011

If the idea of measuring the efficiency of an electric car, which burns no gasoline, in miles per gallon still irks you, spare a thought for our green car expert John Voelcker who goes to some length in this previous article to try and explain why the EPA deems it fit to do so.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 8, 2021

Then they’ll most likely need a car to get to and from school. The good news is, electric vehicles (EVs) are trending among younger drivers, with more than 5.6 With a 25-mile all-electric range, this EV is ideal for driving around campus (and has a gasoline engine for extended drives). Chevrolet Bolt EV.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

Harley-Davidson Launches Stand-Alone Electric Bike Brand. Harley-Davidson, the legendary and revered American manufacturer of motorcycles, announced that it is establishing LiveWire as a separate electric motorcycle brand on July 8,2021, just in time for the first of nine outdoor International Motorcycle Shows. Not an H or D in sight.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 27, 2011

As Chevrolet very often point outs in marketing its 2011 Volt extended-range electric car, more than 70 percent of U.S. That means that if you recharge a Volt every night, and cover less than that distance daily, your car might never, ever need to switch on its range-extending gasoline engine to generate.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

First Drive of Chevrolet’s All-New Electric SUV The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV is rolling-out to dealers across North America in what should be a popular reinvented SUV for the brand. The drive route designed by Chevrolet was chosen to demonstrate handling, ride, acceleration and braking, all of which both models handled well.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

A front-page article in my local paper said that an average family paid more than $4,000 per year for gasoline, whereas we paid only $450 total in fuel and service costs for a Nissan Leaf electric car and a Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric. And thanks.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 11, 2023

Cox Automobile mentioned in a July gross sales document that the fast gross sales era for electrical cars in recent times will gradual. ” Kelley Blue Hold estimated the common transaction value for an EV in June at $53,438 when put next with $48,808 for all sunny cars. Chevrolet was once the Disagree. The post U.S.

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