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Nissan’s Electric Vehicle

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Last week it was announced that Nissan would be teaming up with the city of San Diego to create a test infrastructure for electric vehicle charging.  Nissan would supply the cars for a municipal vehicle fleet and the San Diego Gas and Electric company would provide charging stations.  Initial details about Nissan’s EV were scarce, [...]

Hybrid Hummer Gets 100 MPG

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

That headline is not an error.  Utah-based Raser Technologies has taken a Hummer H3, a vehicle that has been used as a symbol for everything that is wrong with gas-guzzling automobiles, and turned it into an electric-drive vehicle that can go for 40 miles purely on electricity, and average 100 mpg.  A Prius can’t even [...]

The Koenigsegg Quant: Solar's Next Step?

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

The Swedish automaker Koenigsegg has made a name for itself building supercars that go mind-bendingly fast, and suck down a lot of fuel.  The newest Koenigsegg concept vehicle, the Quant, made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show recently, and it appears on track to break all sorts of records, just not the speed records [...]


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