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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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2013

Coda Automotive, the startup maker that builds the 2012 Coda Sedan electric car, is going through some very tough times. But it looks like one of its three dealers is trying to figure out the right price point for the all-electric compact sedan--which was originally priced at $38,145, including a destination charge of $895.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2012

If you're in the market for a 2012 Nissan Leaf, you may find some surprisingly good deals available on the highest-volume battery electric car sold in the U.S. Sales of the Leaf this year have remained far below the pace needed to hit the company's sales target of 20,000 Leafs in the U.S. by the end of next March.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Tuesday 18 December, 2012. The Green Piece Column. In the conclusion of 2011’s A Year in Review, there was talk that it was 2012 that would see electric cars really take off. Or more accurately that 2011 had been a year for the fully electric car, while 2012 would be the year of the plug-in [.].

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 6, 2014

While today''s Tesla Model S electric car may look just the same as the first one that rolled off the line two years ago, it''s had quite a few hardware updates under the surface.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Make a car desirable enough, and people will buy it whatever is powering the wheels. That's the theory anyway, but in a world of unease over the suitability of electric cars, the Henrik Fisker has taken the more comfortable, usable route to creating an electric car: The range-extended 2012 Fisker Karma.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2013

For this analysis, hybrid vehicles were defined by the following classifications: Alt Power — Electric Car; Alt Power — Hybrid Car; Alt Power — Hybrid Truck. Other findings on hybrid vehicle financing: In 2012, 3.1% The lease/loan ratio in 2012 for hybrid vehicles was 21.4% since 2011, going from 2.2% lease and 78.6%

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 30, 2012

For a time, the 2012 Mitsubishi i was the cheapest electric car on sale in the U.S. When smart announced its third-generation Electric Drive would retail from $25,750 for the coupe model, it made the $29,975 Mitsubishi look a bit expensive. Even if it does have two extra seats.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is the second best-selling plug-in electric car in the U.S. But if you view it as an electric car, it’s an odd duck indeed. The car’s plug-in hybrid powertrain adds a 4.4-kilowatt-hour It outsells the Nissan Leaf and is bested only by the Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2011

The 2012 Mitsubishi "i" electric car has been around in one form or another for several years now, so there's a lot of information to keep track of. The tiny egg-shaped electric car, with four doors and four seats, is expected to arrive in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2013

With half the year now gone, are plug-in electric cars on track to double their sales last year? As of the end of June, roughly 41,000 plug-in cars had been sold in the U.S. That number would need to be closer to last year''s total of 53,000 to keep sales on pace to double the 2012 total.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Price increases be damned, the 2012 Fisker Karma is finally here, and first examples are about to arrive in customers' driveways. Earlier in the week we posted our video driving impressions of the new four-door extended-range electric car from startup Fisker Automotive. Now it's time to expand on those.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 19, 2011

The 2012 Nissan Leaf is the second generation of Nissan’s all-electric family hatchback, following on from the highly popular 2011 Nissan Leaf. But one year on from the original Leaf's launch, what's different in the 2012 model? Here's our list of things we think you need to know about the revised 2012 Nissan Leaf.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2012

Take up of grants for the purchase of electric and hybrid cars rose by nearly 20% in the UK in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011. The claims represent a rise of 134 on the 680 claims made under the Plug-in Car Grant in the first half of 2011.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 21, 2012

You can add one more to the list of electric cars now on sale in the U.S., with deliveries last week of the very first 2012 Coda Sedan models last Friday in northern and southern California.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 12, 2011

The 2011 Nissan Leaf, the world's first modern battery-electric car built in volume by a major automaker, is starting to hit its stride. Now the evolution of the Leaf is getting clearer, as Nissan officials confirmed changes and updates to the car for the 2012 and 2013 model years. the total at the.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The world’s most profitable mass-market carmaker has made no secret of its antipathy toward battery-electric vehicles during the past 10 years. In 2012, it canceled its plans for a. That may prove to be a problem over the next decade.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 19, 2012

Last year we told you about a Missouri coachbuilder with the grand plan: turn a humble 2012 Nissan Leaf into a stretch limousine.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2012

If all goes to plan, at 3:30 pm Pacific today, CEO Elon Musk and other Tesla executives will hand over the keys of a new 2012 Tesla Model S to the first retail buyer to take delivery of the all-electric luxury sport sedan. They said it couldn't be done, but it looks like Tesla Motors has indeed pulled it off.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2013

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 100,000th electric car globally. Renault-Nissan has sold more zero-emission cars than all other major automakers combined, the automakers noted. Twizy is Renault’s best-selling model with about 11,000 units sold since it went on sale in early 2012. In addition to the Kangoo Z.E.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.;

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We look at a lot of concept and production cars during auto shows, but rarely does one make us laugh right out loud. The special version of the 2012 Mitsubishi 'i' electric car on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show a couple of weeks ago, however, did just that.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 3, 2012

Tuesday 3 January, 2012. The Green Piece Column. While 2011 was dubbed the ‘year of the electric car’ it looks like 2012 could be even more exciting in the world of [.]. A New Year and a new chance to cut down on excesses, right? No, I’m not talking food or drink, but excessive energy consumption.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 21, 2011

Driving electric just got cheaper, as Mitsubishi announced that its 2012 'i' electric car would be priced at just $27,990 before incentives when deliveries begin in California next January. That makes the 2012 Mitsubishi 'i' the least expensive plug-in car on sale in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

is expanding availability of the all-electric Nissan LEAF to US consumers, upgraded for the 2012 model year. Equipped with additional standard equipment including quick charging and cold-weather features, the 2012 LEAF now will also be available for order in the Southeastern United States and Illinois. Nissan North America Inc.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2012

It's a hot topic whenever anyone mentions electric cars: Pricing. Many electric cars are more expensive than their regular counterparts, though naturally they cost less to run too. But what do today's electric and plug-in cars actually cost? Every vehicle here shows the.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Electric cars are normally considered to be pretty efficient when compared to gasoline-engined cars, but if you want to buy the most efficient electric car on the market today you’ll have to buy a 2012 Mitsubishi i.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Mitsubishi is so pleased with the reaction to its 2012 i electric car that it has decided to move its plans to launch the car nationwide forward by six months.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Price increases on electric cars seem to be the rule these days. First the 2012 Nissan Leaf got a $2,420 increase (for more standard equipment), then the 2012 Chevrolet Volt got a price reduction that actually proved to be an increase in disguise (comparing similarly equipped models).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A recall has been issued for certain 2012 through 2014 model-year Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric cars to address an issue with the brake-vacuum pump. Problems with the pumps could arise from either faulty software or corrosion resulting from exposure to road salt.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2014

Federal, state, and local officials are working to encourage the adoption of plug-in electric cars, whose U.S. sales almost doubled last year against those of 2012. But their efforts may suffer from a fatal flaw, according to a new paper published in the journal Energy Policy and cited by Green Car.'

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 28, 2012

Tuesday 28 August, 2012. The Green Piece Column. One of the things that confuses me deeply (I confess there are many things that confuse me) in the apparent rejection of electric cars is the argument that they are not any greener than combustion cars because electricity is produced from fossil fuels.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2012

The 2012 Fisker Karma is a bundle of contradictions: a stunningly sexy sport sedan with a green powertrain, a large luxury car with the interior space of a subcompact, and a range-extended electric car that gets worse gas-mileage ratings when running on gasoline than some of its conventional competitors.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2017

The 2018 Nissan Leaf will likely be revealed within the next three months, but more than 100,000 older Leaf electric cars are still silently in use on U.S. Some of them, especially the lowest-range cars from the two earliest model years (2011 and 2012), have started to see significant battery capacity degradation.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 2, 2014

Tesla Motors only reveals its production figures every quarter, but it has now likely built about 50,000 of its all-electric Model S luxury sport sedan. The company also doesn''t group its changes and updates into model years, but makes running changes in the cars whenever the updates are tested, validated, and ready to roll.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2012

We’re less than a week away from the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and that means automakers are eagerly dropping hints about what we’ll be seeing next week. For BMW, that means posting six screenshots from its unreleased iOS smartphone application for the 2013 BMW i3 electric car.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 16, 2017

Today, the least efficient plug-in car, why rallycross should go electric, possible CAFE changes, and where electric cars should charge. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Are gas stations.

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