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Israeli electric car venture may have reached the end of the road

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

Israeli electric car venture may have reached the end of the road. Israel Corporation might pull the plug on the electric car company Better Place in the coming days, as the company suffers significant losses. By Yoram Gabison | May.24, 2013 | 10:40 PM …

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Kansas City Students Create Car That Runs On Social Media Fuel

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

An old-school Volkswagen Karmann Ghia is a beauty, but there's nothing old about the engineers-in-training who rebuilt it into an electric car. "And it runs really nice," Cornel Foster, a Minddrive student, said. They have made it cruise like it never …

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Joint venture makes 20 million bid for ailing electric car firm Fisker Automotive

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

A joint venture made up of China-based Wanxiang Group, former General Motors head Bob Lutz and industrialist Gilbert Villarreal is offering to buy troubled electric vehicle manufacturer Fisker Automotive in a prepackaged bankruptcy deal worth $20 …

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Getting paid to drive an electric car It's possible TreeHugger

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

Bottom line, if you live in a state that has good incentives and you take a short lease, it's possible that you could be paying almost nothing net, or even get paid, …

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Another Electric Car Company Is Going Bankrupt

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

Electric car battery supplier Better Place plans to file for bankruptcy within the next few days, CNN Money reports. Better Place was a proponent of battery swapping technology, which involves replacing an electric car's depleted battery, rather than …

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Tips for Electric Car Road Trips This Weekend

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

Memorial weekend is finally here, which means an extra day to finish that D.I.Y. project, visit family and friends, or take a road trip out of town. For many new EV owners, this weekend will provide an opportunity to leave behind the predictable work …

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Alstom trials electric car

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

One of the UK's biggest engineering firm in the UK has become the latest in a string of companies to trial an electric car. Nissan LEAF Alstom. Alstom, which specialises in providing transport infrastructure, power generation and electrical grid …

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Car uses tweets and social media to run

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

The car is an old-school Volkswagen Karmann Gia, but there's nothing old about the engineers-in-training who rebuilt it into an electric car and making it cruise like it never could back in 1967. "We're just a bunch of high school students from Kansas …

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Electric car fans drive for record

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

Electric-car fans drive for record. Print E-Mail Comment. May 24, 2013. Even if it's not in the “Guinness Book of World Records,” a recent electric vehicle test-drive event at Level 3 Communications Inc. in Broomfield certainly counts as a record …

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Can the Electric Car Save the Global Economy

Friday, May 24th, 2013 | Filed under Electric Car

Electric Car Save the Global Economy It's a very interesting concept: I absolutely believe that energy innovation will help the U.S. economy tremendously over the coming years. Under that vast umbrella of energy innovation, alternative energy has the …

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