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Better Place and its partner Renault have opened Europe’s first Better Place centre for people interested in learning more about electric cars. Visitors to the centre will have the opportunity to place an order for a Renault Fluence Z.E. and sign up with the Better Place team for
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Fuel-efficient and low-carbon cars hold one key to dramatically reducing our reliance on petroleum, but can we make the transition quickly enough? With plug-in vehicles like the Nissan LEAF and the Chevy Volt just now becoming available to consumers, what’s the best way to speed up adoption of these
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Interested in a preview glimpse of some of the low-carbon cars to hit the market over the next couple of years? Some of the most promising new models recently enjoyed a test run on Britain’s roads as part of the Royal Automobile Club’s first-ever Brighton to London Future
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The future of transport might lie with electric cars, but US consumers aren’t quite ready yet to lead the charge. Seventy-eight per cent of adults surveyed online by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) see the greatest advantage of electric cars being the ability to operate without the need for
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If it’s a sign of the times that electric- and solar-powered car races don’t seem that strange anymore, we might be catching a glimpse of the future in a different sort of journey that sets off today: an electric-powered expedition of autonomous vehicles heading from Italy to China.
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A study reported on in the Telegraph today raises an interesting question: if rising use of electric cars threatens to overwhelm an ageing and increasingly inadequate energy infrastructure, why shouldn’t drivers with plug-in vehicles pay a fee to help pay for energy improvements? If the logic is straightforward and
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The electric car market is set to enjoy a big boost in Stockholm, thanks to a 62 million (SEK) grant from the Swedish Energy Agency. The grant will go to a joint venture led by the city of Stockholm and the Swedish energy company Vattenfall, which are working together to
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The European Commission today launched a new strategy to encourage the production and adoption of clean, green cars, trucks and other vehicles across the continent, but the question remains: will it be enough to significantly reduce transport’s carbon footprint in the time needed? The strategy calls for, among other
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The future of transport might lie with electric cars, but will we be able to build the market and infrastructure before carbon and oil constraints create insurmountable hurdles? The answer isn’t clear just yet. While hybrid cars, which use both battery and petrol power, are appearing more frequently on
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With an eye toward speeding development of the electric car market, the US automaker General Motors says it plans to spend $8 million to double the size of its advanced automotive battery lab. The project, which will add 30,000 square feet to the company’s existing 33,000-square-foot Global
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While the world’s oil companies insist they’ll dominate the energy picture for the foreseeable future, the US is placing a substantial bet elsewhere … on a coming age of advanced batteries and electric cars. Since last September, the US Department of Energy has thrown nearly $8 billion in the
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A lot of people wonder what the next generation of cars will be powered by. Some think that hybrids are the way forward, while others champion clean diesel or hydrogen. Nissan thinks charging your car from home is the best technology to cut down on CO2 emissions. I’ve written