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CAFE Rules: Only 1-3 percent of cars need to be electric by 2025
The advent of the electric car is upon us, but despite implications to the contrary, don’t look to Uncle Sam to be as much of a direct driver of this anticipated paradigm shift as some may have previously supposed. In other quarters, there has been much talk of automakers needing to develop electrified cars to
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GM R&D Boss Hints At Tesla-Surpassing Batteries
Unlike Tesla Motors which has gone on record saying by 2016 it will offer a Nissan Leaf-beating, 200-mile-range electric car in the low $30,000-range, General Motors plays its hand much closer to its chest, but it would be inadvisable to think the giant is sleeping. On Wednesday this week at the annual conference of Canada’s
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May 2013 Dashboard
The HybridCars.com monthly sales dashboard is a collaboration of HybridCars.com and Baum & Associates, a Michigan-based market research firm focusing on automotive issues including the hybrid and electric vehicle market. Hybrid sales from April to May increased more than overall sales, while diesel and electric sales narrowly trailed the increase in overall sales. Relative to
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KLD’s OneDrive System Is Gaining Traction
If talks now underway with automakers are successful, KLD Energy Technologies may in due time contribute its OneDrive propulsion technology not just to the off-highway utility vehicle and scooter pictured, but to a composite-bodied series plug-in hybrid passenger car produced by a maker with household name-brand recognition. This we learned from KLD’s business development manager
PowerDisc Solving Fuel Cells’ Unequal Current Distribution
PowerDisc Development Corporation has announced that its eFlow has solved one of the most challenging issues within the fuel cell industry: unequal current distribution. PowerDisc Development Corporation is a fuel cell company based in Vancouver BC. “The fuel cell industry has spent a significant amount of time and money solving issues that stem from non-uniform
Trio Of New Diesel Models Coming From Audi
Audi is making a big diesel push, introducing three more TDI models. Audi is expanding its TDI models with the A6 TDI, A7 TDI and Q5 TDI. These new TDI clean diesel models join the newly-introduced A8 L TDI, and highly-successful Q7 TDI. EPA estimated fuel economy figures for the new clean diesel introductions are
Versa Note Starting At $13,990
The 2014 Nissan Versa Note, which goes on sale this month at Nissan dealers nationwide, The Versa Note is fourth all-new product to appear in Nissan showrooms in recent months – following the redesigns of Altima, Pathfinder and Sentra. Nissan declared that the dynamic new styling, interior versatility and advanced technology of the Versa Note
Toyota’s U.S. CEO Comments On Fuel Cell Vehicle Due in 2015
If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed 2015 is the unofficial launch year for production hydrogen fuel cell vehicles – that is, if you don’t count Hyundai which got started with its ix35 last year, and Honda which has soldiered forward with its lease-only FCX Clarity in California since summer, 2008. Aside from
Toyota Still Seen As Top Green Automaker
Toyota’s consistency as a green company has been confirmed by a third successive top ranking in the annual Best Global Green Brands report. This report was published June 12 by international brand consultancy Interbrand. Interestingly, automotive brands make up 50 percent of this year’s top ten. The report gauges the gap between public perception of