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November 29, 2013
Video: Motley Fool Discusses Audi's "Government Has Unfairly Placed Bets on Electrics Over Clean Diesel Vehicles" Claim
Some of us love to hate "clean diesels," while others are okay with them. No problem there. Motley Fool Takes Issue With Some of the Audi Statements Made in This Press Release Diesels certainly have a place in the automotive world, but so to do plug-in vehicles. When Audi called out the US government for "unfairly" placing bets on EVs over diesel, you k...
Video: Formula E CEO Says the "Roar is Over" - Formula E is the "Sound of the Future"
Alejandro Agag, Chief Executive Officer of Formula E Holdings, hit the airwaves on Bloomberg Television’s "On The Move" to discuss the upcoming electric racing series Formula E. Formula E CEO Discusses Electric Racing Series on Bloomberg Agag touches upon several aspects of the racing series that we've not heard mentioned before. There's discussion on...
Nissan LEAF On Track For Over 12,000 Sales In Japan This Year
2013 Nissan LEAF Last month, Nissan sold 1,257 LEAFs in Japan, which perhaps doesn't sound like a record, but compared to the low October 2012 number of 662 units, this represents a substantial improvement. Through the first 10 months of 2013, LEAF sales have been growing at a steady rate in Japan, already reaching 10,480 units - more than in the whole of 2011 (10,310). ...
BMW Responds to Euro NCAP 4-Star Rating by Saying i3 Basically Got 5 Stars
List is Sorted Alphabetically After netting only 4 stars overall in the Euro NCAP crash tests, BMW felt compelled to respond. Euro NCAP Comments BMW i3 - Click to Enlarge The issue, according to BMW, is that Euro NCAP places too much emphasis on areas that don't directly relate to occupant safety. Euro NCAP would argue that all of its t...
Will Plug-In Vehicle Sales Drop Off As Gas Prices Fall This Winter?
Current Avg. Gas Prices in US "Winter blend" gas is upon us and with it comes lower gasoline prices. Typically, the "winter blend" gas is roughly 15 cents cheaper per gallon than "summer" blends. What does this drop in gas prices mean for sales of plug-in vehicles? Not a darn thing. While some studies suggest that declining gas prices lead to lower sales of fuel...
Video: Tesla Model S Tears Up the Pavement in "Get to the Future First" Commercial
Parker Harris, co-founder of Salesforce.com (we've no clue what Salesforce is, nor do we care) put out this spectacular Tesla Model S video where he says he "travels around the world and through time to take all customers to the future with a Salesforce1 powered Tesla S." Again, we have no idea what this means, nor do we care. However, this video shows the Model S zipping down city streets, s...
Tesla Completes Texas Triangle Supercharger Network
Tesla's Current Supercharger Map "The Texas Triangle is #Supercharged! Model S owners now #drivefree between Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio." Current List of Superchargers in Texas Remarks Tesla Motors via its Facebook page. That triangle includes stations in Columbus, Corsicana, Huntsville, San Marcos and W...
Scotland’s First Electric Bus Service Launched; EV Bus Maker Optare Approaching 50 Units Sold in UK
Scotland has its first all-electric bus - the 27-seat Optare Solo SR electric - launched by Keith Brown MSP, Minister for Transport and Veterans in Ayr, Scotland. “I am delighted to launch this innovative new bus service which will connect the ferry terminals at Cairnryan with Stranraer’s railway station and form a vital link in Scotland’s transport network." "This is the first all-ele...
Agility Saietta R Electric Motorcycle Touches Down on US Soil
Agility Saietta R A peculiar Saietta R electric motorcycle will visit Colorado soon as the Agility Global company will attend the UK's Clean and Cool Mission to Colorado. "A group of the UK’s most promising clean technology companies have been chosen to attend the Clean and Cool Mission to Colorado in December. The sixteen companies, which were unveiled at an official cere...
Hyundai Follows Tesla's Lead by Offering Free "Fuel" - Hydrogen Versus Electric
Hyundai FCEV Hyundai made it publicly known that it's following down the path blazed by Tesla Motors. According to the AFDC, Only 10 Hydrogen Stations Exist in the US - We Know That This Government Figure is a Couple Years Outdated, So Perhaps There are a Dozen Now In an effort to push fuel cell vehicles, Hyundai says that its 2015 Tuscon...
Video: Motley Fool Discusses Importance of Tesla Model S Topping Consumer Reports Customer Satisfaction Survey
According to Motley Fool, news of the Tesla Model S topping Consumer Reports' Customer Satisfaction Survey came at the best possible time for the automaker. This Consumer Reports story broke right after Tesla was hit by a wave of bad media, so it was the turnaround Tesla needed. Here's what Motley Fool says of the Model S landing in the #1 spot in Consumer Reports' Customer Satisfaction ...
Remaining Fisker Karmas Now Hot Sellers As Dealers Unload After Bankruptcy Filing
Since Fisker Filed For Chapter 11, Sales Of The Karma Have Taken Off, Here Is Why We urge anyone who bought a Fisker Karma this year before November 22nd, 2013 to stop reading from this point on and check out some of our fine other stories...like this great walkthrough of a handy electric car sharing service in Japan, or watch an amusing video of What Not To Do In Your EV. ...
Pulse QC 50 is the Quick Charger That Can Quick Charge Every Electric Vehicle
QC 50 Yes, we can now say every vehicle without the required *. When Tesla Motors made it known that the Model S to CHAdeMO adapter was coming, the * usually required here disappears.(* still excludes Chinese-made plug ins, but those don't matter much to us.) The Pulse QC 50 is a multi-standard quick charger that supports CHAdeMO, CCS and Fast AC. This basically means t...