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Looking under Nissan's Leaf | The Car Tech blog - CNET ReviewsLooking under Nissan's Leaf Automakers tend to agree that the electrification of the car is inevitable, but Nissan is leading the way by readying a mass-market, affordable electric car for production. The Leaf is a midsize hatchback with a range of a little more than 100 miles, according to ...
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Saab Retreat Hits China's Auto Ambitions - BusinessWeekKoenigsegg Group’s decision to walk away from a deal to buy Saab is not just a blow to GM, which now probably has no choice but to shut down Saab completely, and the automaker’s workers. It’s also a setback for China’s auto industry’s global ambitions. Beijing Automotive Industry (BAIC) had been ...
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Rumor Mill: Tesla Preparing to Go Public | Sustainability | Fast CompanyMore than a year after Tesla shipped its first batch of Roadster sports cars, rumors are swirling that the electric vehicle company is planning to file for an IPO any day now. Tesla has officially denied the rumors, but it would make sense for the company to go public.
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Ford Flex 2010 to feature wheat-straw reinforced plasticFord Flex 2010 to feature wheat-straw reinforced plastic Ford is using wheat straw - a waste byproduct of wheat - to reinforce plastic in the interior storage bins of its Ford Flex vehicles Ford is the first automaker to develop and implement environmentally-friendly wheat straw-reinforced ...
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Retrofit kit allows cars to drive themselvesRetrofit kit allows cars to drive themselves The Pronto4 installed on the steering wheel of a military vehicle Let’s say you want to go for a ride in your car, but you don’t feel like driving it. Or perhaps you want to drive your car, but you don’t want to go for a ride in it. These two ...
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New EPA Fuel Economy Numbers: Ford and GM Show the Most Gains : Gas 2.0New EPA Fuel Economy Numbers: Ford and GM Show the Most Gains Published on November 23rd, 2009 New projected 2009 US fuel economy figures out from the EPA show that we have now reversed a long-term trend of gradually worsening fuel efficiency since 1987—that bottomed out in 2004 at 19.3 mpg. ...
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The ECOS Harbinger - an electric, Euro-styled supercar for under US$90,000The ECOS Harbinger - an electric, Euro-styled supercar for under US$90,000 The ECOS Harbinger - a simple, no-fuss electric supercar. Building electric cars will come with its own set of challenges - but then, in other ways things are going to get a whole lot easier. With plenty of battery ...
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Narrow track vehicles - the convergence of the car and the motorcycleSince Nicholas Negroponte first came up with his landmark teething ring visualization of the coming together of communication, computing and content, the term convergence has become the uber buzzword. Now there’s convergence going on in the personal transport industry, with the car and the ...
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Review: Toyota Venza falls short - MotorHead- msnbc.comIt frequently has been observed that it is easier to stalk the leader than it is to preserve that position once it is achieved. A case in point: The struggles Toyota has endured since overtaking General Motors as the leader in worldwide car sales last year. The Venza, a new, hard-to-define ...
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