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Electric dirt bikes buyer’s guide and best models

Green Authority

Some may find the shortcomings of battery-powered dirt bikes deal-breakers, while others will fall in love with these green machines. Battery technology is improving all the time though, and some of these green motorcycles can go as far as 240 miles on a single charge. Electric motorcycles are quiet. That’s a wrap!

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Top 5 Upcoming Electric Scooters and Features

Electric Vehicles India

Economy with 145 km of range on a single charge and Power with a reduced range of 110 km on a single charge. All this power comes from a 4.56kWh battery, which takes 2.5 Ampere Vehicles is one of the request leaders in battery-powered vehicles in India. This scooter has two modes. hours to go from 0 to 80%.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Red Herring ).

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Postal Service Minivan - Click above for high-res gallery Chrysler is celebrating Earth Day today by unveiling the first four of what will be a fleet of 250 battery-powered minivans for the U.S. market share, the third-largest nameplate in Canada, unsurpassed 25 highway mile per gallon fuel economy and sales in more than 80 countries.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Its been improving over time, but the power density and cost issues are still steep for what exists thus far. based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. It was a Manufacturing Failure, as GM NEVER planned to build the car in Volume, so No Economies of Scale were ever achieved. Interesting in any case.

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