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Tesla: A $1.33 Billion Pile of ... What? Tesla Motors' IPO offering is the first by an American carmaker since Ford's in 1956, and investors are hot for the shares. But what are they buying? |
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General Motors: Gunning for Growth Look out, Toyota and Nissan. General Motors is stomping on the gas, and gaining fast. |
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Tesla Hits Some Serious Potholes Tesla looks confident as it stops the production of the Roadster to make way for the Model S. But will it really help? |
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September 4, 2008 |
Honda, Ford, Nissan Prep Hybrids to Hunt Prius Before Volt Unveil As it is likely that General Motors will unveil the production version of its much-anticipated Chevy Volt later this month, competing automakers are now codifying their plans for next-generation hybrids of their own. |
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GM and LG Renew Their Vows Two familiar partners get together for a new agreement. |
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3 Big Questions for the Electric Car's Future With big pushes from GM, Ford and Toyota, plug-in hybrids are back in the spotlight, but lurking in the shadows is the same old problem: building a lightweight, powerful, affordable battery. |
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Did Electric Cars Just Hit the Wall? Will Chevy Volt battery fires stop the EV revolution before it starts? |
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February 6, 2008
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Inside Plug-in Car Tech's Race to Production (and Top 10 Rides) Big automakers and promising startups say electric vehicles are coming as soon as next year, but there's a lot of work to be done by scientists before lithium-ion batteries are ready for mainstream hybrids. |
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Toyota, Experts See Plug-in Car Trouble: Electric Reality Check With lithium-ion technology finally advanced enough for the world to resurrect the electric car by late 2009, why is the world's No. 1 automaker suddenly questioning its viability? |
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Green Energy: Why Hybrids Still Need Government Motors As the next generation of plug-in cars comes online, a decline in hybrid sales doesn't bode well for their success. |
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NAIAS in Detroit: Let the Show Begin! A preview of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. |
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How Green Is My Plug-In? The carbon impact of the millions of electric vehicles soon to hit the road will depend on the grids that supply them. |
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Autos Weekly: Toyota's Return to Arrogance? Toyota's efforts at world domination resume. Plus: Good news for GM, and the coming battery glut. |
IEEE Spectrum
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Chevy Volt Sparks a Series of Plug-in Hybrids Expect many new plug-in cars to use the gasoline engine only as an extra battery |
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September 15, 2011
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Some Electric Vehicles Are Already Dead in the Water Mass-market electric vehicles are big flops compared to high-end competitors. |
Fast Company
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Why Tesla Motors Is Betting On The Model S Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company - it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan. |
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April 13, 2011
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Ford, Chasing Nissan and Chevy, Rolling Out Focus EV Ford intends to differentiate itself from the rest of the EV crowd in a couple of ways. |
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January 7, 2011
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Ford Promises Fast Charging with Electric Focus Three hours to charge an EV? How do they do it? |
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Detroit Takes Charge Electric cars are poised to make a comeback and this time they might stick around for good. |
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Nissan's All-Electric Leaf Doesn't Stint on Performance The Nissan Leaf is limited only by the range of its battery's charge |
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Eclectic Electrics With the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf hitting showrooms this year, the mass-produced electric car - a century-old dream - becomes a reality. So what are designers dreaming up next? |
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Electric Cars Rule Detroit Auto Show Car makers showed off their latest electric vehicles to a receptive audience at last month's Detroit Auto Show |
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Nissan's CEO Makes the Case for EVs at 2009 Tokyo Motor Show Carlos Ghosn predicts that EVs will make up 10 percent of new-car sales by 2020. To meet this anticipated demand, Nissan partnered with NEC to engineer the lithium-ion battery pack. |
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Will Anyone Buy Electric Cars? They're coming in a big way. But will they sell? |
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America's Sad Love Affair With the Electric Car The biggest letdown is still under the hood. |
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Distinguishing HEV Efficiency From Plug-In-Vehicle Waste The problem with plug-ins. Regardless of chemistry, advanced batteries are terrible things to waste because they require prodigious inputs of scarce mineral resources and are difficult to recycle economically. |
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A Bumpy Road Awaits Tesla Without major infrastructure changes, the electric car pioneer can forget about going mainstream. |
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Has Tesla Motors Gone Too Far? The electric car start-up's stock has surged 50% in the last month. Should you jump in? |
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Ford's Electric-Car Gamble The Blue Oval's unusually tentative strategy could prove to be a bold move. |
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Plugging Away in a Prius Jonathan Sawyer spent $30 000, and voided the warranty, to add a plug to his Prius hybrid. |
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EV Battle: Focus Electric Vs. Model S Ford's all-electric Focus is making headlines, but does it beat Tesla's Model S? |
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Ford Ups the Electric Car Stakes The new Focus Electric is the first five-seater to get a theoretical 100 mpg. Is it a game-changer? |
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Electric Cars Get Charged for Battle The first serious contenders for a mass-scale electric car are on the road. They've already changed GM and Nissan; will they change the world? |
IEEE Spectrum
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Top 10 Tech Cars of 2009 Electric-drive cars take second place to sheer survival. |
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Rags to Riches for Afghanistan and Automakers? Vast riches of lithium in Afghanistan could play a key role in the push for greener cars. |
