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If you own an all-electric car, you’re probably still not planning any long-distance trips across the US … though you could probably enjoy a relatively worry-free tour of California and the West Coast. A drive across the Dakotas or the Deep South, however, is still right out. While federal officials
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Woo … we have a new world record for an electric vehicle: fastest 0-to-60-mph acceleration by an electric kart. Powered by a Saft lithium-ion battery, Linde Material Handling’s E1 electric kart went from sitting still to speeding along at 60 mph in just 3.45 seconds. Guinness World Records was
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TXU Energy customers now have access to a new charging station for electric vehicles (EVs): the first eVgo network charging location in the Dallas area. Residential electricity customers who drive EVs can now charge their cars, both at home and through eVgo Freedom Stations like the new one in North
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If we handle the transition away from fossil fuels right, we should be looking back one day at today’s addiction to the internal-combustion-engine-powered personal passenger vehicle and finding ourselves shaking our heads at the absurdity of it all. Consider just what we’ve long done with our cars at
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Four companies have been selected to begin supplying low-carbon and all-electric vans to some public-sector organisations starting later this year. Ashwoods, Allied Vehicles, Smith Electric Vehicles and Modec will initially supply the first 100 – 150 vans for use across the country. The programme is part of a £20 million Department
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Eight new low-carbon vehicle projects have been selected to run real-life trials supported by £25 million in Government funding, Science Minister Lord Drayson and Transport Secretary Lord Adonis announced today. The project — the largest of its kind to date — is aimed at accelerating the availability of innovative low-carbon cars to
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London Mayor Boris Johnson said today that some of London’s largest fleet operators — which are already using electric vehicles on the capital’s streets — have signed up with work with City Hall to share their experiences and help other organisations to do the same. Participating companies include DHL Supply
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Students at Kingston University are putting the finishing touches to their electric motorbike as they get ready to race it against some of the world’s other most advanced green vehicles. A team of six final-year engineering students are entering their bike — the Firstest — in the first-ever zero-emissions Grand Prix,
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Attendees at this week’s TED (for “Technology, Entertainment, Design”) conference in California are getting a chance to test-drive Aptera’s ultra-efficient 2e vehicle. “It’s not a car, it’s a vehicle,” declares TED blogger Jane Wulf, who detailed TEDster Josh Goldman’s two-mile drive around Long Beach in
