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MAY 29, 2010

The team built a biodiesel extended range electric vehicle with a 21.3kWh battery pack from A123Systems that provides an electric range of 60miles. It is also equipped with a 1.3l [.].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Vauxhall/Opel Ampera extended range vehicle has proven a big hit since its arrival in the European market after debuting as the Chevrolet Volt in the USA: and now it is set to take the lead in a new research subject. Latest News Green cars Electric cars Vauxhall'

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Green Cars News

JULY 27, 2010

The extended range electric vehicle will have a starting MSRP of $41,000 and after the Federal income tax [.]. It seems like we have been talking about the Chevrolet Volt for years here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk – but now it is edging closer to its debut and General Motors has released some vital information about the vehicle.

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Green Cars News

JULY 3, 2010

According to new information from the company, Chevrolet plans to produce 10,000 Volt extended range electric vehicles by the end of 2011 with an additional 30,000 Volts to be produced during 2012. Marketing [.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2010

The UK winner of the Vauxhall ecoFlex competition will soon head to Malmo to compete for the chance to win one of the first Ampera extended range electric vehicles. Helen White was chosen as the UK finalist and will travel to Sweden where she will take on the winners from 19 other countries in the final [.].

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Green Cars News

JUNE 29, 2010

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2010

Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Vauxhall Chevrolet Volt electric vehicles Erin O'Connor extended range electric vehicles supermodel Vauxhall Ampera William Tempest.

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Green Cars News

JULY 15, 2010

Potential owners of the new Chevrolet Volt have been boosted with the news that the lithium-ion battery pack will come with a standard eight-year/100,000 mile warranty.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 17, 2010

The first buyers of the Chevrolet Volt extended range vehicle will be able to pick up one of 4,400 free home charging stations, according to General Motors. Volt owners will be boosted by a 240V charge station from either ECOtality of Coulomb Technologies with the cost of home installation also expected to be included in many [.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The vehicle will go on sale for €42,900 – including national VAT – with Opel already taking reservations for the extended range vehicle. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news Vauxhall Chevrolet Volt Opel Opel Ampera Opel Ampera details Opel Ampera pricing Vauxhall Ampera.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The Audi A1 e-tron extended range electric vehicle is at the heart of a new fleet trial in Munich. All electric fuelling [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The electric van has a 249 miles extended range with 5.0cubic metre storage capacity and is able to carry 750kg of load. It comes with an 111kW electric motor that delivers [.].

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Extended range electric vehicles and full battery electric vehicles place much steeper technical demands on motors than mild and full hybrids. Mr Savigan presented a study highlighting the different [.]. Mr Savigan presented a study highlighting the different [.].

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 21, 2010

An electric concept vehicle from Shanghai GM made its world debut at the 2010 Guangzhou Auto Show. The GM Sail electric vehicle was one of 23 production and concept vehicles at the show and took pride of place alongside the extended range Chevrolet Volt. It is powered by a lithium-ion battery and has a maximum [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 23, 2009

Some of the preliminary information about the upcoming electric-drive crossover from Velozzi, known as the SOLO, has reached us here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk. The vehicle will be an extended range electric car equipped with both supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries for energy storage.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 5, 2012

Fisker Automotive, the name behind a host of extended range luxury electric cars, including the Fisker Karma (pictured), has set its sights on a new market – Quebec. The company will begin selling its vehicle in Montreal after the first Fisker retailer in the province, and the fourth in Canada, was formed.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Lithium-ion batteries (pictured) are seen as the key to success for electric vehicles thanks to their extended range and power capabilities: however, their safety has been called into question on the back of several electric car fires.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle and its battery pack are both converging on the beginning of the product and process validation stage of General Motors’ development process, which is scheduled to start in February, 2010.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A small slice of genius from Vauxhall and driving school Red: an 18 year old guy has become the first person in Britain to pass their driving test using an electric car. Well, make that extended range electric vehicle: he did it in a Vauxhall Ampera. At least the test anxiety didn’t have the added [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 26, 2009

Once a symbol of gas guzzling Americana, perceptions of the Hummer may soon change for the good after a preliminary road test of the Raser Hummer H3E achieved more than 50 miles of all-electric range. SIDI turbocharged engine provides the electrical power.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

After what seems like decades of anticipation, electric cars will finally break off their shackles as niche vehicles and drive into the mainstream with the upcoming launch of the Nissan LEAF electric car and the extended range Chevrolet Volt (Vauxhall/Opel Ampera).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Green Piece Column. American automaker Fisker burst on to the scene several years ago with its first product, the Fisker Karma, expected to be among the world’s first true electric cars with extended range.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

During the month it broke its own sales record delivering 2,961 Volt extended range [.]. The Chevrolet Volt (pictured) is once again the top selling plug-in vehicle in the USA, according to official statistics for October.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

These four main kits are now joined by the all-new Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukasten (“Modular Electric Drive kit”, or MEB), being developed by the Volkswagen brand. We want to be the first one to produce more than 1 million electric cars. The first production MEB vehicle, a version of the I.D. Emotion or e-motion. “

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Earlier this week, we told you how General Motors CEO Dan Akerson was excited about the success of the Chevrolet Volt and the dawning of an electric vehicle age (see article) and now we can reveal the company’s plans for more electric vehicles. GM is preparing to launch two more extended range electric vehicles and [.].

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2011

General Motors has already got into the electric vehicle race with its Chevrolet brand – and now Cadillac is the next in line. The company has announced that the Cadillac Converj extended range electric vehicle concept will indeed be made into a production car – that will be called the Cadillac ELR.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Designed and engineered by Southern California automaker Fisker Automotive, the four-door Karma is claimed to be the ‘first electric vehicle with extended range’. Driven only by electric motors at all [.].

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Green Cars News

APRIL 24, 2009

Following last week’s government announcement of £5,000 electric vehicle (EVs) subsidies, leading electric car retailer, evstores have confirmed a huge growth in enquiries for their electric MyCar city vehicle. Starting from less than £10k our cars do not need a subsidy to make sense.

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Green Cars News

JULY 19, 2011

The new plug-in petrol electric luxury saloon car, the Fisker Karma, will soon benefit from emission after-treatment catalysts after an agreement was reached with Clean Diesel Technologies Inc.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Green Piece. Tuesday 11 September, 2012. OK I have a feeling I am going to be slightly controversial this week because I have a bone I want to pick with Vauxhall over the mishandling in the marketing of the Ampera. It’s not just the recent slap on the wrist that the company received from [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 25, 2009

It is one of the most exciting and innovative green car concepts around and now the Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid will make its public driving debut. The Fisker Karma is an extended range electric vehicle that seats four and can travel for 50 miles on electric charge only, if its lithium-ion battery is fully charged.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The green car race has introduced the motoring world to a host of new names, but perhaps none are as influential as Better Place. At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the company introduced its electric vehicle services platform in conjuction with Renault’s unveiling of the Fluence ZE Concept with switchable battery system.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.)

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APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. See our frequent comments at our news archive.

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