Around this time next year, General Motorswill unveil its first all-electric car since the EV-1.
Nissan places the battery pack of its LEAF all-electric car in a steel case.
Drive an all-electric car and you'd, in effect, collect cash from gas-guzzler lovers.
The results: an all-electric car costs 2 cents per mile, while a gasoline-powered one costs 5 cents per mile.
Kempton sketches out the (admittedly hypothetical) economics of an all-electric car.
If you think of a company like Tesla Motors, pursuing the all-electric car, what better time to compete with General Motors and Chrysler than when they're floundering on their backs.
Their first test in October 2007 was a success: An all-electric car plugged in at the University of Delaware and rigged with communication software responded to a signal from PJM for a sudden burst of power to help balance supply and demand on the grid.
Last week, Ford announced that the 2012 Focus Electric would be the pace car at the Richmond 400, making it the first all-electric pace car to ever lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
"When you engineer a technology-filled, all-electric mini car that goes from zero-to-60 mph in less than eight seconds, customers won't miss the gas, " said Mark Reuss, president, General Motors North America.
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Company builds high-performance, all-electric sports car that most believe is impossible with existing technology.
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Batteries for Chevy's all-electric Volt car, for example, won't depend on that element, Mintzer says.
Similarly, English outfit No Internal Combustion Engine (NICE, very cute) is previewing an all-electric sports car that it plans to show off at the London Auto Show in July.
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That unique hot rodding legacy will return in a wholly unique way as NORRA today announced the entry of the first ever all-electric off-road race car, the SRI EV1 into this week's four-day General Tire Mexican 1000 rally.
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Of course, there are some high-profile debuts, most notably the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, perhaps the most-hyped car in history, and the Nissan Leaf all-electric, both due in November.
His new car is the first all-electric Nissan Leaf sold and delivered in the United States.
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The all-electric Nissan Leaf beat out 39 competitors to claim the title, 2011 World Car of the Year.
NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.
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The plug-in hybrid is an interesting bridge to the electric car, so settle down all you Prius owners!
But options for would-be electric car owners are fast expanding, and Ford is about to tap into the growing greener car market with a trio of environmentally-friendly cars, including an all-electric vehicle!
Now that Tesla is striving to be a mass-market automaker, it cannot realistically expect all 20, 000 buyers a year (the Model S sales goal) to be electric-car acolytes who will plug in at every Walmart stop.
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For if car companies now must offer you guaranteed access to other vehicles to get you to buy an all-electric one, it raises the question: Why do you need an electric vehicle in the first place?
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