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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

Green Car Congress

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. The vehicle can be operated in three drive modes: all-electric, gasoline-electric hybrid and engine drive modes. Click to enlarge.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts. in a Tesla.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

It might be in your neighborhood, but it's something that you will find along interstates or major travel routes. They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts. in a Tesla.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. If you just allow willy-nilly random charging, are we going to have neighborhood blackouts?” asked Mr. Tang, the utility executive.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Google Inc. Some of the most talked-about electric vehicles are slated to debut later this year and can travel at least 100 miles on a single charge (even if some of them run on an auxiliary gasoline engine when the battery runs low). It is different from a plug-in hybrid, or PHEV, which runs on both battery power and gasoline.

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