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Electric-Car-Stifling 'Travel Provision,' 2016 Toyota Prius Spy Shots, Chevy Bolt EV Trademark: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, find out how a regulatory "travel provision" may be stifling electric-car sales outside California, see spy shots of the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid, and learn why General Motors' efforts to trademark the Chevrolet Bolt EV name have hit a roadblock. From Tesla and golf carts to Fiat and BMW, we've got a.

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IIHS awards Chevrolet Volt & Nissan Leaf top ratings in 1st US crash tests of mainstream electric cars

Green Car Congress

The addition of the 2 electric cars brings to 80 the number of award winners so far for 2011, including 7 hybrid models. That lifts General Motors’ current model tally to 12 and Nissan’s to 3. The ratings help consumers pick vehicles that offer a higher level of protection than federal safety standards require.

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Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future?

Clean Fleet Report

Hybrid and fully electric vehicles are already available for a variety of commercial and personal uses. It’s a series plug-in hybrid like the Chevrolet Volt. The truck features two electric motors with a total output of 490 horsepower and off-the-chart torque. There have been more than 7.2 million electric vehicle sales to date.

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Senators take green cars for a spin

Green Cars News

Capitol Hill made for a strange sight earlier this week as it was surrounded by everything from two-seat sports cars to vehicles that resembled golf carts and bucket trucks. General Motors was among them with the line of Volt cars seen as the future for the company. Bright wasn’t alone in bringing its wares for display.

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Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging

Charged EVs

Unless the EV was a golf cart, you’ll have to reconfigure the cells to deliver 48 V nominal, so don’t count on using the original BMS (which probably won’t work, anyway, without a lot of code-hacking) and you’ll still be taking the risk that the battery was abused so much that it has no real usable capacity left.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. Feet, pedals and electric motors only will make for a much more pleasant and greener event. Back after Labor Day.

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Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Unless the EV was a golf cart, you’ll have to reconfigure the cells to deliver 48 V nominal, so don’t count on using the original BMS (which probably won’t work, anyway, without a lot of code-hacking) and you’ll still be taking the risk that the battery was abused so much that it has no real usable capacity left.

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