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Electric-Car-Stifling 'Travel Provision,' 2016 Toyota Prius Spy Shots, Chevy Bolt EV Trademark: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, find out how a regulatory "travel provision" may be stifling electric-car sales outside California, see spy shots of the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid, and learn why General Motors' efforts to trademark the Chevrolet Bolt EV name have hit a roadblock. From Tesla and golf carts to Fiat and BMW, we've got a.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. The plug-in Priuses are almost doubling the fuel efficiency of Google standard Prius fleet, getting 74 MPG rather than 41 MPG.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, which is expected to sell for $40,000 when it goes on sales in the U.S. Prius hybrid. and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co. Those prices are much lower than that of General Motors Corp.s in late 2010. GM plans to launch the Volt in China in 2011. plans to launch by the end of next year.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Let them go bankrupt.

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