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Uh-huh… New Retrofit Kit can Turn Any Car into a Plug-In Hybrid
Dr. Charles Perry at Middle Tennessee State University continues driving toward success in the development of the plug-in hybrid retrofit kit for any car. Dr. Perry, his collaborators, and students are...
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Eye-roller: World’s First Wind-Powered EV Charging Station Installed in...
Critics of electric vehicles attack the claims that they are a truly green source of transport, due to the fact much of the electricity that they use to charge their batteries is generated in coal...
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Compressed Air Vehicle – Has the Electric Car Met its Match?
EV’s are so last season. Those of you into the latest and greatest clean energy technologies need to get yourself a car that runs on compressed air. The idea of an air powered car has been around for a...
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China Raises Rare-Earth Export Quota
China’s government eased its restrictions on rare-earth exports for the first time since 2005 in an apparent nod to a trade fight over Beijing’s tight global grip on production of the strategically...
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Henry Payne: The Volt economy
With sales nowhere near the predicted 45,000-per-year, General Motors halted production of “Obamacar” — the Chevy Volt — here for the second time this year as its inventory levels lag the industry...
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Obama Mileage Mandate Will Fuel Auto Disaster
On the same day the administration releases rules mandating a near-doubling of fuel economy standards, GM announces it is suspending production of its plug-in hybrid Volt amid disappointing sales. The...
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Standards for Fast Charging Are Getting No Closer
WITH a steady flow of battery-powered vehicles arriving in showrooms, and charging infrastructure plans being announced almost daily, it would seem that the initial beachhead for electric vehicles is...
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Plug In or Get Lost: Forcing a Shift to Alternative Cars
A new ruling requires US automakers to more than double average fuel economy by 2025 in a move that will push up prices for cars but more than offset the cost in fuel savings, but the longer-term...
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Ford Attempts to Gain Traction in the Hybrid Car Market
Taking advantage of unpredictable gas prices and a rising consumer interest in all things green, auto-maker Ford is finally making its way into sales of dedicated hybrid vehicles with its freshly...
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Los Angeles Yanks Plug on Free Parking for Electric Cars
Without free parking, EVs are “expensive, underpowered and not really all that green.” From today’s Wall Street Journal: On a recent morning, Jack Luu parked his plug-in Toyota Prius in one of the most...
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IBD: Electric Cars Don’t Sell But Let’s Build More Anyway
“With $1.4 billion in help from American taxpayers, Nissan has begun assembling its electric vehicle in Tennessee. It had better use some of the money to buy a large parking lot to store all those...
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Firms Sue Energy Dept, Claim Cronyism in ‘Green Car’ Loan Program
“The White House and the Energy Department say all clean energy loans and grants were decided on the merits” — the merits of political contributions, that is. “An electric car start-up and its sister...
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Nissan’s In Hot Water With Leaf Owners In Hot-Ass Arizona
EV batteries don’t stand up to the heat. “Arizona Leaf owners have been complaining for a while that their cars’ batteries have no effective cooling method, causing them to prematurely lose anywhere...
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EU: Electric cars set to hit the road
For the sake of their drivers and passengers, let’s hope nothing hits them back. “The European Commission today announced an ambitious package of measures to ensure the build-up of alternative fuel...
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IBD: Boeing Battery Fires Highlight Folly of Obama’s Electric Car Push
“After lithium-ion batteries caught fire on Boeing’s new Dreamliner, stories popped up about how dangerous they are. Turns out they’re the same kind of batteries President Obama is forcing into U.S....
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EV sales off to slow start in 2013
Even with a $7,500 tax credit. Read more at the Detroit News.
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Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway
Memo to Elon Musk: Nikola Tesla may be wanting his name back. “If this is Tesla’s vision of long-distance travel in America’s future, I thought, and the solution to what the company calls the “road...
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WaPo Columnist: The electric car mistake
“The Obama administration’s electric-car fantasy finally may have died on the road between Newark, Del., and Milford, Conn.” Charles Lane writes in the WaPo today: …Federal billions cannot overcome the...
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Elon Musk: A Most Peculiar Test Drive
Elon Musk use the Tesla’s black box data to rebut the New York Times test drive of a Tesla. Still $100,000 for a car that requires 47 minutes for a 200-mile charge? Read more at Tesla Motors.
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Enviros: Tesla offers incomplete, misdirected response to New York Times...
“Here’s the latest installment in the great war between Tesla Motors and The New York Times, launched after a Times reporter chronicled a troubled test drive of Tesla’s all-electric sedan.” Read more...
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NYTimes v. Tesla Motors (Round 3): Broder responds to Musk
Grab the popcorn. More green on green violence. Read Broder’s response.
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Bloomberg to install more EV chargers
Bloomberg rides to Tesla’s rescue? “To make New York even more environmentally-friendly, during the year ahead we’ll encourage use of electric vehicles by installing curbside battery chargers at sites...
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$142 million green energy grant used to play video games, cards
“The only explosions heard at the Michigan factory that was supposed to be producing electric car batteries came from the employees who have been playing video games like “Call of Duty” at taxpayer...
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Tesla’s gets last laugh in the NYTimes test drive debacle?
Tesla is happy that the NYTimes public editor has taken John Broder to the woodshed. “Yesterday, The New York Times reversed its opinion on the review of our Model S and no longer believes that it was...
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Tesla Loss Is Wider Than Expected (20%!)
These results pre-date the now famous NYTimes test drive. “The electric-car maker reported a fourth-quarter non-GAAP net loss of 65 cents per share on revenue of $306.3 million. A year earlier, the...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Fights Perceptions as Stock Drops
Tesla’s $465 million loan from taxpayers is not working out for anyone. Read more from Paul Chesser at NLPC.
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Electric cars struggling in India
Surprise? India is only 65% electrified and more poorer than the US, which is also not taking to EVs. Read more at the New York Times.
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Jaguar Chief: Electric cars not mass-market solution
“Ralf Speth criticizes UK government subsidy of ‘poor electric vehicles’ and nationwide charging stations.” Read more at The Guardian.
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Marc Gunther: If electric cars are the answer, what’s the question?
“What problem to do they solve for electric-car owners?” Read more at MarcGunther.com.
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Tesla scraps $52K econo model and claims profit; Fisker teeters on edge of...
Hardly a success for the Obama-run Central Planning Venture Capital. Read more at The Hill.
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Broke California giving away up to $55,000 vouchers to purchase...
Only $12 million left — so hurry on down to your car/truck dealer now and get your share of OPM. Read more at NGTNews.
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Edmunds: ‘The Internal Combustion Engine Is the Future’
“Gasoline is a very talented energy source.” Read more at Edmunds.
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WaPo Columnist: Government’s bad bet on Fisker
“Government can efficiently affect energy usage through fuel taxes and basic research. When it intervenes on behalf of specific technologies and specific companies, however, bad things happen —...
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Tesla: The Other Government Motors
The Wall Street Journal editorial page exposes electric car maker Tesla for what it is — another taxpayer boondoggle. The list of the Obama Administration’s industrial policy failures is long, from...
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Tesla CEO calls for carbon tax
So taxpayers can continue to subsidize his lame-o electric cars to the tune of $7,500 a pop? Read more at ValueWalk.
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BMW unveils its i3 electric car
USA Today reports: BMW is introducing the electric car that its hopes will become the industry benchmark, the one that overcomes range anxiety and stays true to the performance orientation of the...
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Audit shows Obama admin wasted $135 million on electric car charging stations
Paul Chesser writes: An audit by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General found that the persistent weak demand for electric vehicles harmed the deployment and timeliness of a $135 million-plus...
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Luddites Live! UK Liberal Democrats propose banning internal combustion...
The internal combustion engine is one of the greatest inventions of all time. The Telegraph reports: Nick Clegg’s party has unveiled proposals to only allow ultra-low carbon vehicles on UK roads by...
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Green car co. launched by Dem Virgina Guv candidate to miss production target...
Terry McAuliffe’s promise of one million cars annually gets scaled back to 30,000 — at least his form exceeded its quota for federal investigations? The Washington Times reports: The green car company...
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Another failed green car
Hybrid sports car maker Fisker Automotive owes the DOE — that’s us taxpayers — $192 million but no one wants to buy the troubled company. It hasn’t built a car in over a year, according to Reuters,...
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Why not Drive an IED?
These stories of all electric cars raise some questions, but note that the Tesla driver whose car burned up said he would buy another one in a minute. Gotta love these enviros. The Fisker isn’t really...
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Political payoffs vs. (supposed) Enviro friendliness. Guess who wins?
The Tesla electric car is a darling of the Rich and Yuppie enviro crowd who want to believe it’s a “green” vehicle and want to show off their tree hugging credentials. Of course the truth ain’t quite...
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Will EV’s help pollution in China?
MIT says it won’t do much for the environment. In an article in the MIT Technology Review,Selling Teslas in China Won’t Do Much for the Environment, reports on research by Christopher Cherry,...
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Another Electric Car goes poof
Another electric care debacle. Millions for nothin’. Besides, you got to plug the damn things in and at the other end of the line is a power plant. Not a gerbil on a wheel, not magic, certainly not...
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Chrysler/Fiat’s CEO: Please don’t buy Fiat 500e electric car
It seems Sergio Marchionne either didn’t get the memo, or won’t play along. He’s right up there explaining that his company loses $14,000 on each electric 500e they sell Reuters: Speaking at a...
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EV sales
Sales of electric vehicles are slow or stagnant. How much market was really there, even with tax credits? From The Los Angeles Times, Electric vehicle sales are running out of gas Electric car sales...
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Who reaps the benefits from electric vehicle rebates?
In the State of Washington nearly half the tax breaks go to the wealthiest 10% with no real environmental benefit. Thanks to a Junkscience reader who provided this link to Washington Policy Center...
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Video: Tesla electric cars charged via DIESEL generator at Tesla battery swap...
It’s hard to be green. Read “Tesla And Its Customers Find It’s Not Easy Being Green”.
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Electric cars are stupid–stupid, stupid, stupid
I work on a Federal Reservation where recycling and elctric cars are promoted–boy what a waste. http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/electric-vehicles-more-or-harm-than-good/
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Tesla is a bubble fraud and it will come apart–Musk is a creep says Kimball–I...
I have a Tesla owner in my family–she thinks she is helping the environment and I wish her well. Kimball takes the Tesla fraud on and its “legendary” owner. Electric cars are not sensible–and they are...
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