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Do Electric Cars Still Suck? Fully Charged vs Cnet UK (Video)

Image credit: Fully Charged From checking out the Nemesis electric car , to exploring fast electric car charging , Robert Llewellyn has been an enthusiastic and outspoken advocate for electric cars. So when Rory Reid of cnet uk thoroughly trashed EVs, Robert invited him to have it out with him in person. This was the result…… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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See-Through Car is Super Efficient (307 mpg!)

Photos from Bridgestone Americas Inc . This car turns heads. It’s clear. And clearly one of the most efficient in the world. It was built by students at the DeLaSalle Automotive Design Studio in Kansas City, Missouri, as a high school class project…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Automotive X Prize Finalists Race to Top 100 MPGe

X-Tracer and ZAP compete for the X Prize. Photos courtesy of Progressive Automotive X Prize After a series of eliminations at Michigan International Speedway over the past several weeks, the original 136 vehicles that qualified to enter the Automotive X Prize were narrowed down to nine final survivors. In this ‘revolution through competition,’ the vehicles aimed for the best super-fuel efficiency — 100 mpg o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stop Eating Fossil Fuels, Start Eating Food

Michael Pollan says that if you eat a typical American diet, you are made of corn . Dale Allen Pfeiffer takes it one step further, and says We are Eating Fossil Fuels . (Actually, Jaymi points out that Michael Pollan says that too .) But whenever one discusses the idea that buying local food saves fuel, the naysayers show up. After all, there is the

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