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Want A Honda Fit EV Electric Car? Honda Has A Quiz For You

Green Car Reports

After realising the potential of hybrids early on, Honda has been a little late to join the electric car party with its Fit EV. Just as with the MINI E, BMW ActiveE and Honda's own FCX Clarity fuel-cell.

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BMW MINI E Powered by AC Propulsion?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The automotive and green electric vehicle blogosphere has been abuzz with talk of the BMW MINI E ever since July 9th, 2008, when AutoblogGreen published the rumor that 500 of the intriguing new electric cars would be released later this year in California. Click here to see more photos of the BMW MINI E. ]. second range.

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

Creative Greenius

Check out the new Nissan Leaf on video: You’ve got to love the fact that Nissan had balls and the vision to bank their future on full on electric vehicles, leapfrogging their Japanese competition Honda and Toyota whose timid and safe bet on hybrids has already marked them as bridge technology car makers.

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Enter BMW — with Carbon Fiber

Revenge of the Electric Car

The first of several body styles is expected to be a four-seat, three-door hatchback, but they are likely to be smaller than subcompacts like the 2010 Honda Fit. The first was the two-seat Mini E, of which 600 examples are on test in the U.S., Early tests. Europe, and U.K.

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BMW’s hybrid motor design seeks to deliver high efficiency and power density with lower rare earth use

Green Car Congress

Chevy Spark, Ford Focus Electric, Honda Fit EV, Nissan LEAF, Toyota Prius), with the major exception of Tesla Motors, which uses an AC induction motor in the Model S (as it did in the Roadster as well), and Toyota, with its Tesla-designed electric powertrain.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

But what did surprise this reporter was the absence of Honda, Toyota, BYD, and a lot of the other players listed on the Plug-In America car tracker. Same truth of engineers who have actually talked to real drivers is in evidence with the BMW Mini-E. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV, only here because SCE is testing it.

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