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Musk: Tesla Roadster Will Use SpaceX Tech and Have Rocket Boosters

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Musk made the claims in an interview with former CNN personality Don Lemon, saying that a flying Roadster is “not out of the question.” Before buying Twitter, he tweeted that the car would be available with a SpaceX package that adds 10 “small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around the car.”

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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

To help you save days or weeks of research, here is our guide to using a tool like EV Life to simplify your journey to buy an electric car. Searching by Body Type or price range may open up surprising options for you like the fact that Hyundai and Kia make some of the best affordable electric SUV crossovers on the market.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The big boon for automakers and battery suppliers — and consumers looking for more affordable alt-fuel cars — would be scale: China has the world’s second-largest car market (it exceeded U.S. Think it’s a bad trade? The floor is yours. 6 comments Share Email Buzz Up! Alex Koppelman Joan Walsh Me vs. G.

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Driving Dystopia: Europe’s Low Emission Zones Aren't Going Over Well

The Truth About Cars

There's also a £160-million scheme mimicking the United States' defunct Cash-4-Clunkers designed to pay people to destroy their old cars to buy new ULEZ compliant models (which admittedly sounds like it's just going to create more pollution). Upper classes can easily afford the kind of fines London has been spinning up.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. Yeah, they can afford it. But I think a big part of that was Moore’s law and things becoming really affordable. I want it to be all of California. And this is boring. I want it to go away. We’re turnkey.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. But like so many people my age, I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s where I got hooked on personal computers. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have?

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