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Chevy Volt Buyers Can Get Free Charging Units

Evelyn Kanter — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:29:58 +0000

Chevrolet Volt buyers eligible for free home charging stations

The long-awaited Chevrolet Volt goes on sale Fall 2010. A real problem for owners of electric cars and plug-in hybrids is that recharging stations are still limited. General Motors and its partners will reduce what’s called range anxiety by making 15,000 charging stations available to Chevy [...]

April Car Sales Climb 20%, Indicating the Economy is Stronger

Evelyn Kanter — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:44:57 +0000

2010 Audi A3 TDI

Car sales are a great indicator of the state of the economy. when car sales are down, so is the economy. In April 2010, car sales were up 20% over April 2009. That’s a good sign that the economy is turning around.

Of course, some brands did better than others.

2010 Nissan [...]

Audi Super Bowl Ads Focus on Green

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:27:06 +0000

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 [...]

Solar Power Recharges Electric Car

Evelyn Kanter — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:05:13 +0000

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 [...]

Audi Wins Top Auto Show Awards

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:56:54 +0000

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 [...]

Nissan Sponsors Lance Armstrong Professional CyclingTeam

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:29:34 +0000

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 [...]

Nissan LEAF plug-in electric car is one of top inventions of 2009

Evelyn Kanter — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:50:43 +0000

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 Minicar Concept Intro at Detroit Auto Show

Evelyn Kanter — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:14:12 +0000

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 [...]

First Electric Smart Car Delivered to Customers in Germany

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:31:46 +0000

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 to intro plug-in electric coupe at Detroit Auto Show

Evelyn Kanter — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:42:44 +0000

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 [...]