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Renault Will Bring EVs to America - By Way of Israel
Renault promises to build "a range of electric vehicles" beginning with a sedan it's betting will electrify Israel's vehicle fleet and says it will bring an EV to America within two years. More »
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Xtreme Motorsports Announces Electric Sand Car, Interest Ridiculously High
Sand cars are one of those really fun, but incredibly impractical corners of the automotive world we don't manage to get around to very often. Apparently Xtreme Motorsports out in California has decided to jump on the green bandwagon and has announced the availability of an all electric version of their popular car. Built around the same Li-Ion batteries and a beefy electric motor good for 663 lb.ft. of torque, the car should be quite a screamer as the company is quoting 0-70 MPH times around 5 seconds and a range of 200 miles. More »
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Porsche Goes Green, Builds EVs In 1899, Hybrids In 1901
At the tender age of 25, well before his work with the Auto Union Type C, Ferdinand Porsche entered the 1900 Paris World Exhibition with his all-electric car after developing the key systems for Jacob Lohner & Company. It was heralded as the "most innovative invention" of the show and consequently orders were filled for 300 of the cars. With 1800 lbs of lead-acid batteries, it's quite amazing the cars would routinely achieve a staggering for the time top speed of 31 mph. Since the motors were an in-wheel system, there was really no problem to include a second set in the back for the purposes of racing.More »
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Mustang or Cobra, Now Available In All-Electric Forms
There's something distinctly bizarre about the idea of an all-electric Ford Mustang, even more so with a battery powered
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Raytheon HY-DRA Shows Off In-Wheel E-Motors
All the big names in defense are here today hawking their wares and Raytheon has an off road badass-mobile that practically begs to be flogged mightily. The Hybrid-Defense Recon Assault (HY-DRA) shows off some pretty neat tech (which actually is sort of the military version of the Chevy Volt). The HY-DRA is an EV with in-wheel motors, an on-board range extender, a sweet McLaren F1-style three seat layout, and a monster .50 caliber up top. Funny thing about that .50 cal, before they decided to go with the in-wheel motor design, they had inboard mounted motors and half shafts running out to the wheels. When fired perpendicular to the line of travel, the recoil from the gun would actually knock the HY-DRA on its side. Yeah, this is one instance where unpsrung weight and low center of gravity go well together.More »
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Dansk Olie og NaturGas (DONG) has announced it will be partnering with Renault and Shai Agassi to develop Denmark's electric vehicle infrastructure. DONG is a big swinger in the gas supply world and also has about 600 MW of installed wind turbines — a perfect fit for the EV market. DONG will be rolling its system out first in Copenhagen in 2009 with 100 cars, and then spreading its stations across the land with up to 20% of the market as EVs by 2020.
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DONG Energy Gets Big On EV's
Dansk Olie og NaturGas (DONG) has announced it will be partnering with Renault and Shai Agassi to develop Denmark's electric vehicle infrastructure. DONG is a big swinger in the gas supply world and also has about 600 MW of installed wind turbines — a perfect fit for the EV market. DONG will be rolling its system out first in Copenhagen in 2009 with 100 cars, and then spreading its stations across the land with up to 20% of the market as EVs by 2020.
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Lashing out the Action, Returning the Reaction: New Batteries Could Give E-Cars Needed Juice
What's the biggest problem with electric cars? Sure, some would say it's that they're too quiet, making them a danger to pedestrians, but that's been solved by a simple technology called Baseball Cards in the Spokes (or something like that). The real biggest problem is battery technology. But one company is testing a new formulation of lithium-ion batteries, using nanotechnology, which may offer e-cars a longer range and charging times acceptable to those who don't have all day to spare. Could they be the answer to the electric-car conundrum? More »
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How to Void Your Toyota Warranty, 101: Hacking the Prius
We can't help but be in the CalCars guys' corner on their quest to give the Toyota Prius hybrid full-electric capability. After all, as someone once said (Mark Twain? Henry Ford?) "tinkering is the best revenge over those who'd just as soon spit in your eye as say hello." (Hmm, that doesn't sound quite right). CalCars is a non-profit group of "entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers" who take on projects that promote its interest in national security, jobs and global warming. At an upcoming MAKE magazine event, CalCars engineers plan to hack a new Prius to make it plug-in capable, installing a battery pack and tweaking hardware and software so it can go all-electric. We won't tell if you don't. Oh, wait... More »
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New Electric Supercar: Mullen GT
It may be on the pug side of pretty, but the Mullen GT supercar is fast as a bowl of fuck. Now, it's gotten a good greening. The company's working with Hybrid Technologies, which has fitted the GT with a high-performance electric-drive kit that's recast it as an e-supercar. Word is the zero-emissions version looks and performs identically to the fossil-fueled Mullen GT — zero to 60 in three seconds and a top speed of 180 mph. And next to the $600,000 Venturi F tish, the $125,000 Mullen looks like a helluva e-bargain. More »
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A New Electric Supercar: The Wrightspeed EV
If you still thought electric cars were only good for carrying pissed-drunk men wielding metal clubs, the Wrightspeed EV — shown in a video sent by one Jalopnik reader — will likely change your outlook in a hurry. Using an already quick-and-ready (and street legal) Ariel Atom open-wheel roadster as a donor car, creator Ian Wright stuffed in a high-tech electric motor from AC Propulsion (tZero, Tango), wired it up, and devised a faster-than-hell EV that can do zero-to-60 in a neckbone-threatening three seconds. Check out this video of a test drive — if you can get past the cyclonic wind noise. Insane. [Thanks to Eric for the tip.] More »
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What Would George Clooney Drive?: Tango und Cash
Our Los Angeles bro who cracks wise to Hollywood power, Defamer, posted a shot of actor George Clooney's new, Prodrive-built Tango 600 electric one-seater parked outside the star's trailer on set of "The Good German." Clooney took delivery of the electric wonder earlier this year, but to our knowledge has yet to attempt a 12-second quarter mile in it, though the company says such performance is possible. Still, after "Syriana" comes out next month, he may need that kind of juice to outrun the Trilateral Commission's black helicopters and poison-dart-firing ninjas on Suzuki Hayabusas. More »
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