"You may be able to get power and beauty in an electric car, " he said in an obvious dig at rival electric car company Tesla.
But, of course, a fuel-cell car is an electric car, albeit with a complicated hydrogen battery.
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The authors do not analyse individual countries, but Majeau-Bettez estimates that the global warming impact of an EV car driven in the UK is about 10% better over its life cycle than that of a car with an internal combustion engine.
As I calculated in my earlier Forbes article, one needs to multiply the EPA MPGe by .365 to get a number that truly compares fossil fuel use of an electric car with a traditional gasoline engine car on an apples to apples basis.
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Of course car buffs know that an exotic-car company selling an SUV is not without precedent.
Participating car owners install an OnStar car-kit that leverages tracking of vehicles and allows users to unlock cars using mobile phones.
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Away from his client work, one of Lovegrove's projects is the "Car on a Stick, " an electric bubble car that turns into an elevated streetlight at night.
Beijing has already felt the heat about it from various car companies, and last year Daimler managed to stop another Chinese car firm, CMEC from making an electric car that closely resembled its ubiquitous Smart car.
Despite the fact that it weighs only a little more than 80 pounds and folds up to fit into an average car trunk, the Segway carts around an impressive amount of redundant technology.
GlobalPost said Foley was in a car heading for the Turkish border when, an eyewitness said, an unmarked car intercepted the journalist.
In fact, the car apparently already holds the "unofficial" speed record for an automous car at 130 miles per hour and, in the long term, Stanford hopes that it'll be able to complete the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, which stretches some twenty kilometers and includes no less than 156 turns.
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They introduced the insurance giant to Community Centric, a Portland, Ore. upstart, which contacted car-lover clubs and online outlets such as carjunky.com to persuade members to help promote an Allstate car photo contest.
For those two reasons, the EV-1 project was cancelled, and when better battery technology DID finally become available, the Volt was built as an extended range car, with an on-board generator so that you will NOT get stranded like someone driving a Nissan Leaf.
But maybe an angry car-buying public wants more vengeance against the people who sold lemons.
Google has spent considerable effort building an electric car fleet at its Silicon Valley headquarters.
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For example, he's partnered with Gillette to create an online car racing game for Nascar aficionados.
Off the track, Hamilton's life has changed dramatically since his first appearance in an F1 car.
GM's Chevrolet Volt, an electric car with a combustion engine range extender, could be another beneficiary.
The last woman to race an F1 car was Lella Lombardi back in 1976.
The plans also include the completion of an underground car park and pavement cafe.
He has built ones that look like an antique car, a Jeep and a rocket.
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But here we have an inferior car with very limited driving distance between recharges.
For an ultraluxury car, the Bentley has one of the slowest, least usable navigation systems extant.
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There is a lot more to an electric car than its battery, of course.
An avid car enthusiast, he tried to persuade Trimble to buy a Bentley, she said.
But Lewis Hamilton won the last grand prix in Hungary in an improving car.
Wasim has invented an electric car, which he is more than happy to show off.
It can take 22 hours or more to charge an electric car using basic Chademo charging.
At present, regenerative braking adds between 20kg and 30kg to an F1 car's weight.
Instead of loading into an armored car, I secured a local taxi to drive into the city.
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