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October 19, 2012
Charging
Study Finds Chevy Volt Drivers Have Gas Anxiety
The Chevrolet Volt was purpose built to allow people to drive an electric car without experiencing range anxiety, the scary feeling that the battery could run out before returning home. As such, the car lets drivers travel up to 40 miles gas free before the generator turns on. EV charging company Ecotality has published a report on EV owners' charging habits, and it has been reported ...
19 October 2012
General
"Autonomous Emergency Steering System" Shown On Nissan LEAF (must see video)
No CGI Here, This Brave Nissan Engineer Lets The LEAF Take Over The Emergency Driving When Nissan announced development of the "Autonomous Emergency Steering System," we did not get all the excited. But after learning it was installed on a LEAF and Nissan provided a real life video, complete with brand new vehicles for the car to crash into and test dummies, we perked up. ...
19 October 2012
General
Amp Electric Stops Making Electric Cars For Trucks, But Will They Soon Make Nothing At All?
A Never To Be Produced AMP MLe (Mercedes) AMP Electric Vehicles said today during a conference call (and later filed with the SEC) that it will stop making/developing electric-powered Jeep Grand Cherokees and Mercedes SUVs effective immediately to focus on delivering electric commercial truck fleets. The words "stop making" and "to focus" would imply that there was still ...
18 October 2012