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February 27, 2013
Video: Ford Begins Ad Campaign For C-Max Energi
If this ad is any indication, it looks like Ford is finally starting to solve the inventory issues that have plagued C-Max Energi sales the last couple months. In January, Ford only sold 338 C-Max Energis, well down 2012 levels that averaged over 1,000 plug-ins per month. That being said, it would have been hard to sell many more than that, as Ford only managed to ship out about 600 to d...
How Do EVs and ICEs compare? Really?
2012 Nissan LEAF Squares Off Against A 2012 Nissan Versa Because electric vehicles are so new, and still so few and far between, most consumers have never even seen one, let alone taken one for a nice, long test drive. To make matters worse, what little information they have heard or read about EVs is all too often exaggerated, distorted, even false, thanks to a constant bar...
Euro-Spec 2013 Nissan LEAF Gets Over 100 Tweaks, Range Increased and Price Slashed
Euro-Spec Nissan LEAF The majority of the changes are subtle, but Nissan insists that over 100 tweaks have been applied to the 2013 Euro-spec LEAF. Dark Interior a Welcome Addition for Messy Families With European production set to commence in Spring, Nissan updated the Euro-spec LEAF with a host of changes and even tailored portions of t...
BYD Aims to Quadruple Plug-In Vehicles Sales in 2013
Leave it to China's BYD to boldly claim that it will go where no Chinese automakers has gone before. BYD is, once again, setting its sights on capturing a sizeable chunk of China's electric vehicle market. According to BYD, sales of its electric vehicle will likely quadruple in 2013, as compared to 2012. BYD Bus BYD sold only 1,700 electric passenger ve...
Vauxhall Ampera Whirs Into Ambulance Action
Yorkshire Ambulance Service could save lives and slash emissions simply by mashing the accelerator pedal in its ambulance-ready Vauxhall Ampera plug-in. Two grinning chaps. The vehicle will be piloted as rapid response (aka first responder) in the York area of the UK. The Yorkshire Ambulance Service hopes to gauge how well the Ampera performs before it co...
Mercedes Shows Off The Hottest Thing With A Plug: SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive (Video)
Not often can you declare one particular vehicle the hands-down winner in performance and looks in it's segment. But that is not the case when it comes to electric vehicles. Hopefully The Blue Flames Are Included In The Purchase Price The Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive has it all (including the sticker price), and Mercedes is all about showin...
Nissan to Return to LeMans in 2014 With Electric Technology
Nissan's ultra-radical DeltaWing racer was far from successful on the track, but in 2014, Nissan will return to the 24 Hours of LeMans with an experimental vehicle packed with electric technology. This announcement was made Monday evening by Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn during the opening of NISMO’s headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. As Ghosn stated: "We will return to Le Mans with a vehicle t...
Toyota Discounts The RAV4 EV By $10,000, With 0% Financing. Lease From $499, Zero Down
How Low Can Toyota Go? How About $20,000 Off With Federal And State Incentives? Rattled by a real lack of interest in the RAV4 EV at the MSRP price of $49,800, and needing to put some giddy-up in their journey to sell 2,600 (for compliance reasons) of their 103-mile electric SUV, Toyota took $5,000 off the sticker price to buoy sales 3 months ago. The result since then? ...
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