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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

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The spacious sedan actually exceeded expectations, combining shelter-magazine interior luxury, slick handling and boggling acceleration. More-affordable versions will begin production later this year, including a 650-horsepower Air Touring for $96,500, and an 800-horse Grand Touring at $140,400. The now-public company, flush with $4.5

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. A lot of current and upcoming electric cars are in the 300-mile range. Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. A lot of current and upcoming electric cars are in the 300-mile range. Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Which brings us to the Ferrari’s secret sauce: electricity. But even now, years before EVs can finally put ICEs out of business, automakers are finding that electricity provides performance benefits that are too good to pass up. liter V-8 generates 780 metric horsepower; another 220 hp comes from the plug-in hybrid’s electric motors.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. They reality always seems to be just a few years away, the magazine complained. The 100 m.p.g.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. " 0:00 / 3:23 Buffett eyes electric cars Coming from Munger, that meant a lot. tech industry during the 1990s.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. report titled, “The Comeback of the Electric Car? and Chrysler. .’s

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