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Potential Motors unveils the Adventure 1: an all-electric Overlanding van

Teslarati

This is powered with a 70kWh battery capable of a 100-mile offroad range, though the company has not specified an on-road range. Sadly, the van’s price tag is not for the faint of heart. The vehicle starts at $136,600, and a preorder of the van isn’t cheap either at $1,000.

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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

The Truth About Cars

If we're talking about realistic Metro competitors here, the base 1992 Ford Festiva actually managed to undercut the price tag on the cheapest possible Metro two-door hatchback that year: $6,911 versus $6,999. The wretched 1992 Hyundai Excel base two-door was even cheaper, at $6,595 ($15,879 in today's spondoolies ).

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VW Coming Up PHEV? Why Not UP EV?

Plugs and Cars

Only 18 inches longer and one inch wider than my beloved 53 mile range Th!nk nk City that Ford confiscated in 2004. I say 75 mile range sub-$25K and they've got an urban green dream machine. Easy parking and super cheap to refill. Tags: volkswagen vw electric car up concept city car la autoshow.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

This is a move that GM, Ford and whatever’s left of Chrysler should have made, but it’s too creative, too bold and too American for any of those legacy car companies to pull off in the 21st century. Really Ford? The “new&# Ford Taurus? Their brand names don’t mean anything any longer. Are you kidding me?

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Zero-Carbon Drive to Sacto Anti-Carbon Rally and Back

Plugs and Cars

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) And I was there representing Plug In America. Total cost: $6.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

Whereas overall car sales in the US market were down 34 per cent in May 2009 compared to the same month in the previous year, some of the most popular fuel efficient cars took even bigger hits - the Ford Focus down 54 per cent; the Honda Civic down 61 per cent; the Chevrolet Cobalt down 52 per cent. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Ford E-Transit – the first EV Ford confirmed for Australia is slated for mid-2022. Ford has also confirmed the smaller Transit Custom to go EV. Ford F-150 Lightning – EV version of America’s top-selling large pick-up truck is also the fastest and most powerful. 2020 Ford Mustang Mach-E.