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Today on Planet 100: Eat, Pray, Love, and Shop? (Video)
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Martin Eberhard with a Tesla electric Roadster. Photo: Flickr , CC EV Forecast: Sunny, But Uncertain Martin Eberhard, one of the original co-founders of Tesla Motors in 2003 and now director at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), is predicting that that within the next 10 years, electric cars will have a range of 500 miles and more. It’s a bold prediction considering that the Tesla Roadster has a range of 244 miles (at a very high cost, and for a lightweight 2-seater) and that most other e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tesla Co-Founder: Electric Cars with 500+ Mile Range by 2020
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Image credit: Planet Green Dare to dream. When I was a little kid, I used to hear it all the time. Dare to dream. You can be a lawyer or a doctor or even the President of the United States. I dared to dream. And I became me. Hahahahahaha. Sometimes though, if you dare to dream, things can work out beautifully. I dared to dream of double digit episodes of The Fabulous Beekman Boys …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Store-Openings And Surprises On The Fabulous Beekman Boys Season Finale
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Photo: Nissan Only 3,300 LEAFs in U.S. Until March 2011 One of the things that makes the Nissan LEAF electric car so promising is that Nissan was aiming for mass-production from the very beginning (f.ex. The Smyrna plant is expected to produce up to 150,000 vehicles annually, and there are other high-capacity Nissan EV plants in Oppama, Japan and Sunderland, England). Other car makers are no doubt thinking about big numbers for their upcoming EVs, but so far they’ve been more timid… In any case, it looks like would-be buyers of the LEAF in the United States will have to be patient,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nissan Diverts 2/3 of Electric LEAFs from U.S. to Japan
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Photo via CSMonitor Politico reports that Rush Limbaugh spent a huge chunk of yesterday’s radio broadcast lambasting the Chevy Volt and the tax credits supporting them. Through the course of his ranting, it became clear — as it so often does — that Limbaugh has no idea what he’s talking about. In it, he asserted that “nobody wants” electric cars, and that they amount to nothing more than overpriced AIDS rib… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rush Limbaugh: Electric Cars are Overpriced AIDS Ribbons
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Photo: Flickr, CC Not Sexy But Useful Some of the most important scientific and technological breakthroughs are the invention of tools that allow you to make better tools, or to do research faster. The general public never sees these things, but it still reaps the benefits. A new technique to test electric car and hybrid car batteries more quickly might just be such a breakthrough, because it could allow engineers to know within weeks how a new battery chemistry performs instead of having to wait months or even years. A faster EV development cycle should drive down costs and increase the pace of innovatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: GM From 30,000 to 45,000 Units Thanks to strong interest by the public, GM has decided to boost production of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid by 50% in 2012. This means that instead of making 30,000, they’ll make 45,000 at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant. The company is probably hoping that it can improve the economics of the Volt by reaching economies of scale faster than initially planned, and it no doubt feels Nissan breathing down its neck with its cheaper LEAF el… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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GM to Boost Volt PHEV Production Capacity by 50% in 2012
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Photo via the Resilient Earth This year will see the debut of some of the most hotly anticipated electric cars ever designed for the mass market — notably, the Chevy Volt and the Nisson Leaf. And right on cue, the complaints and criticisms about EVs have begun to fly. The cars, which will at first be produced in smaller quantities and with new technologies, will be relatively expensive — $41K for the Volt and $33K for the Leaf, though a … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why We Need Electric Car Subsidies
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Photo: Imgur, via Digg Better to Laugh than to Cry Getting off oil is one of the hardest things that our petroleum-addicted society will have to do. It’s a challenge of epic proportions, and it’s going to be hard especially in the transportation sector where oil utterly dominates as a source of energy. We’ll need to change our cities (make them more like Copenhagen ), and change our vehicles (allow them to be powered by clean(er) sources, like electricity from renewables). All of this will be … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The "LOL OIL" Tesla Vanity License Plate
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Photo: Government of Ontario Always Read the Fine Print When the rebates for plug-in hybrids and electric cars were first announced by the government of Ontario , there was no word on how many applicants would be accepted, and the size of the rebates was aid to be between $4,000 and $10,000 (depending on the capacity of the car’s battery). But now that the tax measure is phasing in, the details are changing, and not for the better. Read on for details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ontario Limits Size and Quantity of EV Rebates
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