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Volvo EM90 electric minivan, Karma EV plans, EVs not driven enough: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Volvo revealed its first minivan, and it’s a long-range, road-trip-worthy EV. Karma has another new product plan. With the full reveal of the Volvo EM90 electric minivan this past weekend—for now only positioned for China—Volvo is. And why is it a problem that EV owners are driving less?

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LA show displays green car ‘glimpse into the future’

Green Cars News

The show, based at the Los Angeles Convention Center will host more than 30 significant world and North American debuts and feature more than 900 vehicles from sports cars and sedans to crossovers and minivans. Fisker Karma. More importantly, will feature more than 50 of the newest hybrids and alternative. BMW ActiveHybrid 7. •

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The company also announced in June that it will build electric family sized minivans, SUVs and fleet vans with DOE funding (see article ) and it has formed a partnership with Daimler to provide powertrain components for the electric Smart car. The company hopes to begin selling the Fisker Karma in mid 2010 in Europe.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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