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Volvo V60 PHEV for US; Can Diesel Hybrid Be Far Behind?
[Editor's Note: Clarification and Update: While the Volvo V60 will be coming to the U.S. market in early 2014, the automaker has not officially released its model year. Complexity of U.S. diesel laws...
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Tesla Model S Nets World Green Car Award Winner For 2013
The World Car Awards started in 2004. Candidates for the four categories – Design, Performance, Green, and the overall World Car – are selected by some of the most well-known and respected journalists...
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Out Of This World: How the Chevy Volt Reached Mars
While space aficionados lament budget cuts to NASA and the U.S. space program, Chevrolet Volt owners have already reached the planet Mars. Not literally, of course. (Otherwise, the Mars probe Curiosity...
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A Way To Reduce Gas Usage, GHG Emissions By 80% By 2050
The nonprofit National Research Council (NRC) recently issued a report on how America can reduce its petroleum, or gasoline, use and greenhouse gas emissions by vehicles by 2050. The report states the...
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Gas-Powered Plane Goes Silent As New Flying Electron
Thirty years ago, Claude Chudzik of France developed the CC01, a single-pilot plane. The CC01 is a “canard” style aircraft due to its unique design and propeller in back. Chudzik successfully flew the...
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Evatran Integrating Wireless EV Charge Systems In DOE Project
Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) recently granted Virginia-based Evatran a subcontract for its Department of Energy (DOE) project, “Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and Charging of Plug-In Electric...
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Cadillac ELR Simultaneously Slows Car, Recharges Batteries
The Cadillac ELR is the luxurious sibling to the more pedestrian Chevrolet Volt. Recently, General Motors released info on the ELR’s “Regen on Demand”, a feature unique to the latest Caddy. When a...
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ARPA-E Fuels $40 Million In Clean Transportation Projects
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is a federal government’s program that awards funding to select green energy technologies in the private sector that are still in their infancy....
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Panama Keeps Canal Carbon-Free With New Electric Vehicle
Panama usually doesn’t come to mind when listing which countries promote environmentally-friendly practices. But the Panama Canal Authority (PAC), which manages the world-renown canal system, recently...
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How the Grizzly EV Robot Claws Through Any Environment
Normally most bears sleep in the winter months. The Grizzly by Clearpath Robotics, though, not only stays awake in the snow, but is ready to clamber all over it. The Grizzly is a robot, though at first...
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Hyundai E4U Demonstrates R&D Love For Electricity, Eggs
Wouldn’t it be cool if you worked for a company that actually encouraged you to be creative? Not only does upper management want your ideas, but they’ll go ahead and make your idea real. Well, there is...
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Porsche Panamera Hybrid Adds A Plug-In Option
While electric cars continue to, well, electrify the media and even charge up EV sales among the public, hybrids continue their relentless march across all auto makes, including luxury brands. (You’d...
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2014 Chevrolet Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel 46 MPG Beats Non-Hybrids
In the U.S., diesel cars have been the sole providence of German automakers since the mid-eighties. Now General Motors looks to get back into the oil-burner biz with the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Clean...
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Will Edison2 VLC 4.0 Disrupt Auto Industry?
In 2010, Lynchburg-based Edison2 won the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize with its Very Light Car (VLC) concept. The four-passenger vehicle weighed in at an outstanding 830 pounds due to the...
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Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Company Aims Larger, Longer
Remember MyCar? Manufactured by Virgina-based GreenTech Automotive (GTA), the little-car-that-could is part of a very specialized segment of electric cars called neighborhood electric vehicles, or...
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One Green-Friendly Aircraft Comes To Ground For NASA
You don’t usually think of flying crafts as environmentally friendly. All of them, from helicopters, commercial airplanes, to the most powerful fighter jets, consume huge quantities of non-renewable...
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YikeBike Loses Weight, Gains Power And New Model
Unicycle meets a tricycle, then loses a wheel. That’s how we described the YikeBike back in 2009. Well, the portable electric bicycle (ebike), is part of the so-called “mini-farthing” bicycle segment,...
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10 Kelley Blue Book Green Car Picks For 2013
Environmentally-friendly cars have gone mainstream. While there will always be a place for low-mileage gas-guzzlers, the average American has spoken – with their greenbacks – and declared that, yes, we...
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Citroen Seeing Green With Ruby Red DS Wild Rubis Hybrid
China is a magnet for the auto industry, attracted to its growing consumer population and lack of established leaders in the numerous car segments. At this year’s Shanghai Motor Show, French automaker...
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Electric Powered Car Ferry Set For Nation Of Norway
European countries are well on their way to reducing carbon emissions, whether it’s Scotland’s increased use of electric vehicles by 2050 to the Volvo V60 PHEV currently on sale throughout the...
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