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Selling cheap gas to promote electric cars?

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Daily

Let’s see. You’re a gas station owner who wants to get out of the petrol business and into something a little more eco-friendly. Electric cars, say. How do you mark the transition? For Milton Grin, owner of a Valero in Kansas City, Missouri, the answer was to attract attention to his [...] [...]

Zap one step closer to building electric car factory in Kentucky

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, Zap, Green Daily

There has been a lot of noise in Kentucky recently as state elected officials work to bring a large electric car factory to the area. A month ago, Democrats and Republicans were fighting over just who could hold the earlier press conference with representatives from Zap. Then, [...] [...]

Electric bicycle sales soar world-wide

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels
We like the idea of electric bicycles and, apparently, the world does too. We’ve known that electric bicycles have become extremely popular in China but new numbers reveal they’re really starting to catch on in Western countries too. In America, for example, where we have rising fuel costs and an [...] [...]

Some complete speculation on the Daimler-Tesla deal

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Mercedes Benz, SMART, Tesla Motors

It’s time to throw some ideas against the wall and see what sticks. Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge to back up any of what follows. This is all pure speculation based on putting together some puzzle pieces that may or may not actually fit. Let’s begin [...] [...]

AutoblogGreen for 08.18.08

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green
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Where would you have rather been this weekend, checking out the classics during the Woodward Cruise or out in San Francisco looking on as 133 tiny Smart cars packed Lombard Street? Alternately, you maybe wanted to get in on the .99/gal deal that was used to promote electric [...] [...]