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There’s more to designing a car’s exterior than making it look cool. You have to make it aerodynamic as well. The science of smoothing airflow is of increasing importance as automakers strive to make their cars more fuel-efficient and as batteries play a greater role in propulsion systems.
The earliest experiments in aero [...] [...]
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President Bush signed a spending bill Tuesday that includes billion in low-cost government loans for the auto industry. The idea is to allow automakers to borrow money in order retool plants to build more advanced technology vehicles—including hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and clean diesel cars—to boost fuel efficiency by 25 percent. Nine Tesla employees stormed Seattle last weekend on a four-day sales and marketing blitz. The trip was a great success – not only for 80 customers and media who got to drive the car but for those of us at Tesla scouting the perfect location for a Seattle-area store, which we are planning to open [...] [...] Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, Audi, Paris Motor Show Audi A1 Sportback Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Africa, Paris Motor Show Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Green Daily Great Scott! An all-electric 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 is now up on eBay for the bargain price of ,600. Well, it’d be a bargain if it could jump through time and wasn’t under the reserve price. The one-off conversion was done by the seller and a friend and uses a [...] [...] Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GM There has been a fair bit of discussion and controversy in the last couple of weeks on the interwebs about the exact nature of the powerflow and battery charging in the Chevy Volt. Back in July GM’s Larry Nitz discussed how the charge sustaining mode would work. As with parallel [...] [...] Filed under: EV/Plug-in, GM, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, Automotive X-Prize Click above for high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Volt |
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