Audi 3 e-tron Electric Car Getting American Trial
At the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, Calif., recently Audi announced plans to conduct a battery-electric A3 e-tron feasibility study in the U.S. to “define a progressive e-mobility driver...
View ArticleAudi Quattro Hybrid To Run 24 Hours Of Le Mans
Last fall brought news that Toyota would take its LMP1 prototype, featuring a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain, to the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Now, Audi says it will take the Le Mans...
View ArticleFord Focus Electric Beats Leaf With 105 MPGE Combined
New data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving Ford the chance to tout its 2012 Focus Electric as the most fuel-efficient five-passenger car in America. The claim is based on...
View ArticleEco-Marathon Engineers Aim For Extreme Mileage
More than 1,000 high school and college students, working in teams, are designing and building cars for the sixth running of the Shell Eco-marathon Americas in Houston later this month, hoping to push...
View ArticleTron-Inspired Electric Motorcycle Up For Bid
Evolve Motorcycles has donated one of its Xenon electric motorcycles to charitybuzz for auction, turning the spotlight back on the wildly futuristic vehicle that the company sums up with the punchy...
View ArticleScotland’s Clean Energy Ambitions Go On Display
The U.K. power company SSE is giving the public a place to engage the range of technologies that are part of Scotland’s headlong dive into clean power. SSE recently opened the “Power of Now” exhibition...
View ArticleSolar Power Makes Fuel Cell Vehicles Truly Green
In Hempstead, N.Y., the city not long ago began creating truly clean hydrogen fuel for their fuel cell vehicles by hooking a 100-kilowatt wind turbine into the system. But wind is just one renewable...
View ArticleVia Answers Verizon’s Call For Electric Trucks
Verizon is jumping on the Via Motors bandwagon. Mind you, the maker of burly electric extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) for heavy-duty work has a modest-sized bandwagon, consisting of Pacific...
View ArticleBig DOE-Backed Plug-in Hybrid Work Trucks Roll
Odyne Systems is the company that turned up on EarthTechling the other day in a piece about turning massive Ford F-750s into plug-in hybrids. If you read the story, you might have wondered: Who buys...
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