2:36 pm in audio video, Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, News, Science & Technology, television, transportation by TreeHugger
Internet, Space Rockets, Electric Cars & Solar Panels
Earlier this week, Bloomberg TV ran an hour-long profile of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur of South-American origins who has been involved in companies like Zip2, Paypal, SpaceX, SolarCity and Tesla Motors. While it isn't just about his green activities, it shows that from the very start he's been thinking about ways to have a big impact on the world (his targeted areas: making commerce possible on the Internet, making space exploration cheaper, making clean energy more accessible and cheaper, and ma...
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3:15 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, prototypes, transportation by TreeHugger
A Quick Taste
Tesla has released a sneak peak video that shows a few electric
Model S Alphas driving around a track. It's only a preview, so the video is short, but there's a longer one below with shots of the Model S zipping buy with only tire noises, a nice reminder that there are only electrons under the hood (well, technically, under the hood is a trunk, but you know what I mean...)....
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3:48 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, electric vehicles, Science & Technology, solar power by TreeHugger
The conducting tread in this story is Elon Musk: The CEO of
Tesla Motors is also the chairman of
SolarCity, so it is any surprise that SolarCity would start to offer solar-powered chargers for electric cars? (In fact,
it's not the first time they do this) Candace Lombardi w...
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10:19 am in cars, electric cars, renewable energy, united kingdom by TreeHugger
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There's been a lot of interest in
the Renault Fluence ZE, and Brian even got to take a test drive when he
visited a Better Place battery swap station in Denmark. There are good reasons for all the buzz. From its design origins as a regular, run-of-the-mill car, to its readiness for battery swap technology, it is certainly...
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8:37 am in alternative energy, Business & Politics, cars, electric cars, renewable energy, united kingdom, wind power by TreeHugger
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While
initial sales of electric cars may have been slower than expected, andwith a
Government u-turn on public charging points, electric car advocates will be delighted to see some good news emerging from the UK this week. Yesterday Ecotricity—pioneers of wind, solar and biogas in the UK—are launching a truly nationwide network of electric car charging stations t...
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2:08 pm in Cars & Transportation, electric cars, hybrid cars, News, Science & Technology, transportation by TreeHugger
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Competition for the Chevy Volt
While Toyota is getting ready to go 100% electric with the
Scion iQ EV and the
Toyota RAV4 EV with a Tesla powertrain, it is also betting a lot on the intermediary step that is the plug-in hybrid technology (...
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Dale Vince is not your ordinary business man. He built a wind energy empire that got him on Britain's rich list. He has just launched one of Britain''s biggest solar farms (that nurtures bees too). And he is creating a nationwide network of free electric car charging stations. He's...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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An Electrifying Joint-Venture
As I've 
Nissan, in a joint venture with China's Dongfeng, will build an EV for the Chinese market by 2015. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said:
"We see a clear need for cars that are affordable, practical, spacious and zero emission. Nissan is clearly the global leader in zero emission mobility, now with more than 10,100 electric Nissan Leaf vehicles already sold worldwide."
"We are fully prepared to follow the Chinese government direction to promote the adoption of zero emisssion vehicles. We are ready to produce electric cars locally in China under the Venucia brand." Via 
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