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Electric Car Under $10K ?

Meet the concept 'Original Beetlelike' vehicle, the KAR, by the Kleenspeed. Together with the under $10k price tag is a monthly rental on the battery pack of approximately $175 per month. The KAR has a ...

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Mercedes-Benz Electric Scooter Set for Production

The Smart brand of Mercedes-Benz has verified that it will release the 2010 escooter that was shown at the Paris motor event.   Mercedes Benz E-Scooter on display.   The escooter was included in a ...

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The C Evolution: BMW’s Ultra-Green Electric Two-Wheeler

BMW's prototype scooter on London streets. BMW recently released five units of its newest electric scooter archetype, the C Evolution, to a trial on the streets of central London. The C ...

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Tesla Fast Charge Announced

Tesla has secretly deployed a number of solar powered fast charge stations to be made available to the public in October.  A full charge of a Tesla will take an hour while a 30 minute ...

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A fully enclosed electric motorcycle that can’t fall over?

I didn't know what to think of this one when I first saw it.  Its gyroscopic stability means it won't fall over (even when sideswiped).  It's also fully enclosed and has a range of approximately 320kms ...

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Test Driving the LEAF

Nissan very kindly loaned me one of the first Nissan Leafs in Western Australia for a few days and I'm here to report on the results.  In brief - it was very impressive!  By the ...

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Hybrid Sales – the interim step to full EV adoption

Plug In hybrid sales are taking off with sales of the Chevy Volt and Toyota's Prius posting gains of almost 400% in the US (according to Edmonds.com).  Range anxiety seems to be the ...

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Nissan Leaf in Fremantle Western Australia

As I parked my electric car at the Queensgate carpark in Fremantle this morning and plugged in to charge, there parked next to me was the Nissan Leaf.  Had to take a few shots.  This ...

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5 Minute EV Battery Charge?

News is in from Hydro Quebec working in conjunction with the US Dept of Energy which could see a charge station fully charge a depleted EV in about 5 minutes.  This would be another major ...

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Twizy – I want one…..

There are no plans yet for delivery to Australia (and our bureaucratic regulations may even ban the import as they did with the Reva some years ago) but the Renault Twizy is making quite an ...

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