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Electric-Car-Hating Top Gear Names Fisker Karma Luxury Car Of The Year

Green Car Reports

For as long as we can remember, there’s been an ongoing love-to-hate relationship between the BBC's Top Gear show and electric cars. Until yesterday that is, when Top Gear Magazine caught everyone off guard by announcing that its Luxury Car of The Year was none other than the $95,900 Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid.

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Jeremy Clarkson seems to know very little about electric cars, sadly

Green Car Reports

One of three long-time hosts of BBC's long-running "Top Gear" TV show, Clarkson was fired after punching a producer. DON'T MISS: Tesla Vs BBC: Top. The things celebrities say. His costars quit soon afterward.

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Blink Charging Celebrates Women in the Electric Vehicle Industry

Blink Charging

Clara played a significant role in popularizing electric vehicles before the First World War. She drove a Detroit Electric Model 47 Brougham model car , as electric cars were considered safer than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in the early 20 th century, which had a tendency to experience occasional explosions.

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Chelsea Sexton Slams Bias On Both Sides Over Electric-Car Range (Guest Post)

All Cars Electric

by Chelsea Sexton Slanted, anti-EV reporting is hardly a new thing, and I suspect we're in for a lot more of it in 2011 as plug-in vehicles hit showrooms. But the recent BBC "Mini Adventure," a 484-mile journey from London to Edinburgh in a Mini E, has caught fire like nothing I've seen in a while.

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Yorkshire plans electric car infrastructure

Green Cars News

Ambitious plans to expand the uptake of electric vehicles could see Yorkshire become the home of over 700 electric charging points. Tags: Electric cars charging points city CO2Sense Plugged-in Places Yorkshire.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Supporters of the car say that’s shortsighted. 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. . and Chrysler. .’s

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Mr. Thesen said that a factory in Turkey was being refurbished to be able to produce 100,000 electric vehicles a year.

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