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February 12, 2013
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Jay Leno's Garage: Electric Bus Conversions On The Cheap
A recent web-episode of Jay Leno's Garage, featured a fairly innovative green idea. Purchase older buses at their useful end of life, gut their power-trains and give them new life as all-electric transportation vehicles. Denim Shirts Are Always Required In Jay's Garage Macy Neshati, Vice President of Complete Coach Works, takes us through the process in...
12 February 2013
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Video: 2014 Cadillac ELR Winter Test
Recently, pre-production versions of the 2014 Cadillac ELR completed winter weather chassis testing in Michigan's often-brutal Upper Peninsula. Cadillac ELR testing in winter. Though the video is not particularly exciting, winter testing is a vital step in the development of nearly all automobiles, especially those powered by batteries. Of course, driving...
12 February 2013
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Followup: Tesla Model S Versus New York Times (Update)
As we eagerly await Tesla's blog post, which we're now led to believe will almost completely refute cold-weather range claims made against the Tesla Model S by The New York Times, we've decided that the proper course of action here is to analyze some of the specifics related to the claims made by The Times and to compare those claims with Tesla's own information regarding the Model S' real-world r...
12 February 2013
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Will LEAF Sales Hit 1% of Nissan's Total US Sales in 2013?
2013 Nissan LEAF Playing with numbers can occasionally be exciting. Well, not really, but an examination of the numbers often results in discovery. Such is the case here as we examine Nissan LEAF sales in relation to Nissan's total US sales figures in 2012. All told, Nissan sold 1,141,656 units in the US in 2012. 9,819 of those vehicles were LEAFs. That means that 0.86...
12 February 2013
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Musk Calls Out NY Times Review of Tesla Model S; Says "Range in Cold a Fake" (Updated w/video)
This story is spiraling out of control with nearly all major news outlets covering it from every angle imaginable. At the heart of matter is that Tesla Motors refutes the accuracy and accounts of a Model S review published by... The New York Times. The Times' reviewer insists that the Model S doesn't meet range claims in cold weather, but Tesla argues that the range in cold weather claim m...
11 February 2013