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Just yesterday we brought you spy shots from what appeared to be a hot-weather testing session, and which has the same setting as this official video released today of three Model S Alpha build cars testing on track. The track is partially banked, enabling easier high-speed testing, but also has traffic and road markings--with speeds laid out in metric--making us think Tesla has borrowed another automaker's testing grounds for the Alpha's shake-down. Other than that, there's not a whole lot going on in the video--except the increasingly less-eerie sound of electric cars whipping along at high...
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2011 Nissan Leaf Electric Car Finally Gets Android App
2011 Nissan Leaf owners are right on the cutting edge of car technology, but so far only Apple iPhone users have been able to enjoy the full experience of controlling the car's climate control and charging timer functions from a mobile device. No longer. Android smartphone users are now privy to...
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BMW i8 Plug-In Hybrid Sports Coupe And i3 Electric City Car: Live Photos
Our colleague John Voelcker of GreenCarReports is on the scene for the unveiling of the new BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports coupe and i3 electric city car in Frankfurt today, and he's sent us these live images from the event. Jump into the gallery for a more first-hand look at these slick new...
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BMW i3 Concept: The Megacity Vehicle Finally Revealed
The BMW i3 Concept weighs just 2,755 pounds and features a 167 horsepower electric motor driving its rear axle.
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2012 Fisker Karma Starts Delivery, First One Goes To Investor Ray Lane
The 2012 Fisker Karma is powered by a pair of electric motors rated at a combined 408 horsepower and a 959 pound-feet of torque.
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New Gearbox Will Allow Future Fiskers To Offer Veyron-Like Performance
A multi-speed gearbox in Fisker's electric cars would allow greater acceleration and an increased top speed.
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Ever wondered what the BMW ActiveE looks like while it's rolling through the plant, innards exposed to the open air? Here's your answer. The 1-Series bodies in white glide through the Leipzig plant as they are built up into BMW's all-electric, lease-only ActiveE coupe. As it's being build, BMW assembly worker Mirco Shwarze describes the process (thankfully translated into English). The Leipzig plant where the ActiveE is built is also where the new i3 will be built, right down to its carbon fiber chassis. If you're in the market for a German EV, the ActiveE is your best (and only) bet at the...
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BMW To Supply 4,000 Cars For 2012 London Olympic Games
The 2012 Olympic Games in London will provide a glimpse of BMW’s low-emissions future.
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Nissan Leaf Slings Electrons Up Pikes Peak: Video
The Nissan Leaf tackled Pikes Peak this year, setting the benchmark for production all-electric cars.
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Volvo's Next Generation Of Range-Extended Electric Cars
Volvo's next generation of range extenders show the potential for a peaceful co-existence between electric cars and their combustion counterparts.
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Electric, Natural Gas Race Cars To Join ALMS?
Compressed natural gas and electric race cars could have a very real future in American Le Mans Series racing, and sooner than you might think.
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General Motors Picks U.K. For EN-V City Car Euro Manufacture
Small cars are becoming big business. The smart fortwo, Scion iQ, Gordon Murray's upcoming T.25, the Renault Twizy... more and more carmakers are developing tiny vehicles to provide our city transportation of the future. General Motors has jumped on the bandwagon too. GM showed the cleverly named...
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Going straight onto All Car Tech's list of things we want is a new electric camper van by design collective NAU, known as Ecco. Describing it as a camper van almost doesn't do it justice, though. The teardropped vehicle is more like a Transformer, changing from efficient and spacious vehicle into a sail-like home with space for five, revealing beds and even a toilet. Adhering to the camping ethos of "leave only footprints, take nothing but pictures" the Ecco is a zero-local-emissions vehicle that aims to be both economical as a vehicle and efficient as a micro home. Constructed from...
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e-Wolf Alpha 1 SRF Electric Track Car Spy Shots
Last week we brought you the first details on the Alpha 1 SRF electric track car from Germany’s e-Wolf, and today we have images of an example of the stripped-out, zero-emission racer at the Nurburgring-Nordschleife. You may be wondering why e-Wolf is running up laps at the notorious track...
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2012 BMW 5er Goes Four, Porcelain Veyron, EV Racing: Today's Car News
We collect the day's top news so you don't have to hunt for it.
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Tesla Roadster Wins ReFuel EV Races, We Interview The Driver, Joe Nuxoll
We talk with Joe Nuxoll about winning the ReFuel EV SportElectric Time Trials in a bone-stock, first-generation Tesla Roadster.
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Ford Asks, 'How Should The 2012 Ford Focus Electric Sound?'
Electric vehicles have upsides and downsides. On the upside, they crank out far fewer pollutants than their fossil-fuel-swilling cousins, and they may help ease dependence on foreign oil. On the downside, they're quiet. Too quiet. While some of you might find that a good thing, EV's lack of sound...
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Viper Survives, Leaf Laps, Jag Sips: Today's Car News
We round up the highlights of the past day's car news and drop it all in one place. Today, the Viper survives supplier issues, the Nissan Leaf laps Laguna Seca, and the Jaguar XF diesel makes us jealous.
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Current Rolls-Royce customers may not be warming to the idea of an electric sedan but that hasn’t stopped engineers at the luxury British marque from continuing work on its 102EX electric prototype based on the Phantom. During its initial public unveiling at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show back in March, Rolls-Royce said the prototype will test on public roads during the course of the year in key markets such as the U.S., Europe, the Middle-East and Asia. Now, in preparation of the prototype’s global tour, Rolls-Royce engineers have taken the 102EX to the MIRA engineering facility in...
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e-Wolf Presents Alpha 1 SRF Electric Track Car: Video
Remember e-Wolf? A few years back the German firm released a couple of preview images teasing a new electric supercar that’s still in development. Well, e-Wolf has been busy, releasing a number of other electric cars in the recent past, the latest of which is the new Alpha 1 SRF (Silent...
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2012 Tesla Model S Prototype Spy Shots: Exclusive
The Tesla Model S is due in 2012, packing an all-electric drivetrain, a luxurious, high-tech interior, and stunning good exterior looks. These spy shots show you the first near-production example we've seen.
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Solar Windows For Buildings: Will Cars Get The Tech Next?
A Californian start-up has just received an award of $100,000 as part of the "GE ecomagination Challenge" for an energy-saving idea that could change the way that buildings are constructed. Pythagoras Solar from San Mateo has created windows laced with solar cells and the potential benefits for...
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Tesla Roadster Hits The Autocross Course: Video
One of the raps on electric cars is that they are not high-performance vehicles, at least not in the traditional sense.
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Lotus City Car Concept Details, Sales To Start In 2014: Report
Lotus canned the Elan, but the City Car, or Ethos as it will be called in production, will see production, according to the latest report.
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