Evelyn Kanter has a lifetime of experience as journalist -- as a magazine and newspaper writer and photographer, radio and television news producer and reporter, and guidebook author and editor, all focusing on travel, automotive, lifestyle, the environment and your rights as a consumer.
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2010 Audi A3 TDI
Who says Germans don’t have a sense of humor? Audi ads on the XLIV Super Bowl are a funny serious look at saving fuel and saving our natural resources. Green police go after the bag guys — the ones who use styrofoam cups and paper plates, and the ones who do [...]
MINI-E Electric Car
Talk about sustainable energy — recharge your electric car with solar power. There are a handful of solar-powered charging stations around the world where drivers can juice up their EV vehicles, and one of them has just opened in New York City.
Solar power to recharge EV cars could be a game-changer, and especially this [...]
2010 Audi A8
The Audi brand is in the fast-lane, for sure. Audi models have been sweeping awards at recent auto shows. Let’s start with the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, now underway.
The all-new 2011 Audi A8 luxury performance sedan took top honors in the prestigious EyesOn Design awards, which recognizes — you guessed it — design. The A8 is [...]
Tour de France, Stage 20, Livestrong photo
When Lance Armstrong is not riding a bicycle, he will be riding a Nissan vehicle. The car maker has announced it is sponsoring Team RadioShack, the new Lance Armstrong profssional cycling team. Nissan becomes the team’s official vehicle of Armstrong’s Team RadioShack.
Lance Armstrong, as if you didn’t know, is [...]
Time magazine is justifiably famous for its annual “Person of the Year” awards. But that’s not the only award it bestows each year. I was delighted to find an electric car, the plug-in Nissan LEAF on the list of Time’s top inventions of 2009. It is the only vehicle on the 2009 list.
What makes the Nissan LEAF [...]
Toyota hybrid concept minicar teaser photo
Green cars were the big news at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September and the Los Angeles Auto Show in December 2009, and the expectation is that hybrid cars, plug-in electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell cars will be making headlines at the important Detroit Auto Show in January 2010.
The [...]
SmartforTwo plug-in electric minicar
Getting smart: The first plug-in electric Smartfortwo minicar has been delivered to customers in Berlin, close to the Stuttgart home of its parent company, Mercedes-Benz. The first two owners — an artist and a dental technology company executive — currently own the regular gas-powered Smartfortwo.
The compact two-seater is the first emission-free vehicle in [...]
BMW 1-Series ActiveE electric concept car
BMW is unveiling a fully-electric compact coupe at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2010. The concept BMW 1-Series prototype is called the Concept ActiveE.
The BMW 1-Series electric concept will have lithium ion batteries, and the packs are placed in the spot a conventional drive train would be in a conventional gas or diesel [...]
2010 Nissan LEAF plug-in electric car
The zero-emission plug-in electric Nissan LEAF has started its 22-city North America to eleven U. S. states and one Canadian province. The five-passenger Nissan LEAF goes on sale late in 2010 as a 2011 model, and Nissan won’t even begin taking orders until spring 2010, so this multi-city preview is [...]
Mitsubishi MiEV plug-in electric car
The Mitsubishi MiEV plug-in electric car is not on sale yet in the U.S. yet, but I got the chance to test drive a prototype recently, and loved every minute.
I wish you could have seen the smile on my face or heard me giggle as I steered the Mitsubishi MiEV in tight [...]
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Where to Find Me March
Dubai
Bangkok, Chang Mai
Colorado
May
Speaker at
Alternative Fuel Conference
Las Vegas
Where I’ve Been January
Beaver Creek, Vail, Colorado
December
Miami - Audi A8 launch
Los Angeles Auto Show
Detroit - GM, Ford
October
St. Lucia
Guadalajara, Mexico
September
Frankfurt Auto Show
Stuttgart, Munich
July
Edmondton NASCAR
Churchill, Canada, "Polar Bear Capital of the World"
May
Taos, Albuquerque
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