Tag: electric
member name: Sam Carana
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December 25, 2007 04:39 AM EST --
The Lightning car company has released new electric cars in the UK. The electric Lightning GT and Sports versions are now available to pre-order. Reservations for the first cars (2008 delivery) . . .
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June 03, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Starting this fiscal year, Japan Post Service Co. will gradually introduce electric cars to replace and eventually phase out its current fleet of automobiles over the next eight years.
The company . . .
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September 13, 2007 12:35 AM EDT --
How much surface does it take to supply solar energy? The image accompanying this article shows how much surface needs to be covered in theory by solar power facilities to generate enough electricity . . .
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December 09, 2007 07:11 AM EST --
The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric car with some very impressive specs:
- Acceleration 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds
- Top Speed of over 125 mph
- Range of 245 miles on one . . .
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November 07, 2007 05:06 AM EST --
Would you like to get a cheap electric car? Project Better Place has raised more than $200 million in funding to source electric cars and batteries for a network of charging spots and battery exchange . . .
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September 01, 2008 06:31 AM EDT --
All-electric cars
Toyota has announced plans to launch an electric car. It will be an all-electric car (rather than a hybrid) and it will be a small car, limited to commuting or city driving, powered . . .
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September 26, 2007 05:56 AM EDT --
Communities without roads is an exciting concept that allows people to live within walking distances of colleages, customers, friends, medical and educational facilities, shops, restaurants, etc. The sedentary . . .
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November 02, 2007 11:25 PM EDT --
Boeing recently announced that it will have a hydrogen plane in the air later this year. The Boeing Fuel Cell Demonstrator Airplane is scheduled to fly at an altitude of about 2,000 feet (610 meters). . . .
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April 20, 2008 04:24 AM EDT --
Last month, at the New York International Automobile Show, Mitsubishi displayed the i MiEV (i indicates it's a minivan, while MIEV stands for M itsubishi i nnovative E lectric V ehicle). Mitsubishi . . .
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October 06, 2008 03:56 AM EDT --
Last month, Hawaii received $1.7 million in grants to modernize its electric grids to accommodate an influx of renewable energy, with an eye toward electric cars.
Why Hawaii? The geothermal power . . .
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April 03, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
In November 2007, I wrote an article about Project Better Place , which was planning to deliver subsidized electric vehicles, while recovering costs through a network of recharging points and battery . . .
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June 22, 2008 08:21 AM EDT --
Since July 2007, a program called Vélib' has dotted Paris with 10,000 electric hire-bicycles, stationed in 750 bike ranks.
To drive them, you'll need a one-year membership, which can . . .
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December 17, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
Electric vehicles have many advantages, such as little maintenance, gear changes, noise and fumes, and - of course - no emissions, if powered with electricity from clean sources.
Batteries can be expensive . . .
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December 21, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
FREEDOM FROM OIL: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction (McGraw Hill, 2008), by David Sandalow.
BOOK REVIEW by Sam Carana
In his book, Freedom from Oil, Sandalow gets . . .
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February 17, 2008 03:46 AM EST --
Meet the sQuba, the car that travels over land and water, as well as swims under water. It was designed by Swiss Rinspeed Design Company.
Instead of a combustion engine, it has three electric motors, . . .
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April 04, 2008 08:30 PM EDT --
Boeing announced that it has successfully conducted test flights of a manned airplane powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
A two-seater Dimona plane with a 16.3 meter (53.5 foot) wingspan and a conventional . . .
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March 20, 2009 04:49 AM EDT --
U.S. Department of energy Announcement
President Obama Announces $2.4 Billion in Funding to Support Next Generation Electric Vehicles
DOE Support for Advanced Battery Manufacturing and . . .
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October 09, 2008 03:00 AM EDT --
The electric helicopter pictured below is an invention of Sean Herbert, who started testing the concept two years ago. With Sydney-based Wieland Helicopter Technologies , Sean has now developed an range . . .
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November 21, 2008 05:08 AM EST --
A $1 billion plan proposed by Better Place for the San Francisco Bay Area has been endorsed by the Bay Area's big-city mayors, including San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums . . .
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June 07, 2009 04:27 AM EDT --
Fuji Heavy Industries will start selling the plug-in battery electric Subaru Stella in Japan from July 2009.
The Stella seats four, has a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph) and can travel up to 90km . . .
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