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Tesla to sell Roadster in Europe

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The Roadster will be sold in Europe beginning in Summer, 2008, CEO Ze'ev Drori has told the Financial Times. The upstart California auto maker decided to offer its vehicles in Europe for a number of reasons. The weak dollar also makes Europe an attractive market. Although the chassis and body are made in the U.K.,

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Nissan sketches electric commercial vehicle; envisions electric ambulance

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It is a somewhat stylized take on the NV200 light commercial gasoline van Nissan sells in Japan and Europe. Nissan has released an official sketch of an electric urban delivery vehicle that looks closer to viable than many EV concepts that have appeared at auto shows over the last few months.

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Hertsgaard: It's Worse Than You Think

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Summers hotter than the killer of 50,000 in Europe a few years ago. Of course, he said, every effort must continue to move toward a zero-carbon economy, but we need to get our collective head around the idea that our carbon emissions have warmed up the earth, and it's going to get even warmer. More Katrina's.

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Fast charger comes to Voltageville: Envisioning the Future

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Hundreds of thousands of Nissan all-electric cars would be manufactured in Asia, America and Europe within a very few years. He defied conventional thinking by moving directly toward the commercialization of all-electric cars. I was thrilled. Consumers would soon begin to have a choice of vehicle types that include real electric cars.

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Nissan Swear off Hybrids and Hydrogen

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He has also promised that it will have three battery-powered models on sale by 2011: an electric Kangoo van, a Clio-sized five-seat hatch and a larger saloon designed primarily for Israel but which would also be sold across Europe.

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Chu on higher gas prices

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From an exchange about gas prices between Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Florida Republican Cliff Stearns during a House hearing on the proposed climate bill: Stearns to Chu: Last September you made a statement that somehow we have to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe, which at the time exceeded $8 per gallon.

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Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

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In other developed countries – in Europe and Asia, for example – clean, electric public transit is the principal means of transportation. The latest report by the American Public Transportation Association documents a 3.8 percent decline in ridership overall in the first nine months of 2009.