UK’s Go Low car sharing service has just taken delivery of 12 Citroën C-Zero electric cars. Go Low – a UK company which describes itself as a fast expanding Community Interest Company (CIC), with Department for Transport funding – says it is using the 100-percent electric Citroën C-Zero cars as part of a unique service it
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An infrastructure project studying smart grids named “Living Laboratory” is underway at the University of Southern California and Mitsubishi is involved with its i-MiEV EV. Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. is supporting the University of Southern California (USC) and the institution’s Viterbi School of Engineering as it develops a special campus-wide Smart Grid “Living Laboratory”
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City CarShare is adding two new Ford Focus all-electric vehicles to its San Francisco fleet. The car sharing company’s fleet now includes 13 plug-in electric hybrids (PHEVs) and five all-electric vehicles (EVs). Forty-four percent of City CarShare’s fleet is now made up of electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles. In total, City CarShare has 18
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This week the first shipment of 2012 Mitsubishi i electric demonstrator vehicles were received for East Coast dealerships at the Port of Baltimore and said to represent its the debut for “most of the eastern seaboard.” According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mitsu’s little EV returns 112 miles per gallon equivalent (energy usage), the
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This week Mitsubishi announced a few details about its limited-production U.S electric minicar due in November, including that it will be the lowest-price, highest-MPGe EV yet available. The “i” is what Mitsubishi is calling the $27,990 “wide body” version of its EV, and just 2,000 will be made available for the North American market. You
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A car designer better known for his work on super-fast machines like the McLaren F1 and Brabham F1 racers has turned his considerable talents toward super-frugal electric city transportation. Yesterday, Gordon Murray revealed his company’s T.27 minicar in London, saying it is a new kind of car designed to answer challenges of CO2 emissions, tight
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It’s just a rumor, but the potential move by Mitsubishi to give its Lancer Evolution a diesel-hybrid powertrain is interesting for several reasons. First of all, Mitsubishi is not afraid to be first on an innovative green technology. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV was the first all-electric car to hit the mainstream market. That was in Japan
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The city of Vacaville, Calif., a small town halfway between the Bay Area and Sacramento, has a little known distinction: It has more electric car charging stations per capita than any other city in the country. That’s why the city has earned the nickname of “Voltageville.” As of a few weeks ago, Vacaville now boasts
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With the first wave of plug-in cars set to hit the market later this year, there is still uncertainty as to whether consumers will balk at price tag and range limitations of early-model electric vehicles. Both of these drawbacks can be traced to the shortcomings of the current generation of lithium ion batteries, which have
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Beijing Auto Show The Chinese auto market is booming. This year’s Beijing Auto Show, which opened over the weekend, features nearly 100 cars powered by electricity or some other alternative to petroleum. The list of hybrids and electric cars on display looks like a grand vision of what China’s roadways could look like in the
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