Nissan North America is using Hawaii as one of its Leaf electric vehicle test markets along with Tennessee, Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona and Texas, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
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But based on feedback from drivers participating in Smart Fortwo Electric Drive test programs, Mercedes says a more typical charge time might be 3.5 hours to go from 20 percent to 85 percent.
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The Electric Defender test vehicles swap the 2.2-liter, four-cylinder diesel engine and six-speed manual gearbox of the regular Defender 110 for a 70-kilowatt electric motor that puts out the equivalent of 94 horsepower and 243 foot-pounds of torque.
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Earlier this month, I took one of Hertz's electric bikes for a test spin, booking it online the night before.
So far, BMW has carried out the biggest test of electric motoring.
To be sure, some infrastructure projects might pass that cost-benefit test (perhaps electric grid modernization, or unclogging strategic rail bottlenecks).
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X Server Test, the moment of truth.
The first electric cars of this model fitted with Siemens electric motors will be on the test tracks as early as the end of this year.
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Martin Eberhard gleefully showed the safety crash-test videos of the Tesla electric roadster.
The most exciting development, of course, is the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, which I really want to test drive.
This week we test drove a 2013 Ford Focus Electric through the streets of San Francisco (we admit, we did get a bit of range anxiety).
With the Focus Electric rolling into showrooms, I took a pre-production model on a two-week tech test drive around the San Francisco Bay Area last month to experience daily life in the cloud with an electric car.
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In October 2010, four driverless electric vans successfully concluded a 13, 000-kilometer test drive from Italy to China, Nevada has issued the first set of regulations for driverless cars, and WIRED magazine recently ran a cover story anticipating driverless cars in your life in the near future.
Although heaters are minimized to conserve battery range, Consumer Reports rated a Volt test car at a paltry average 25 miles of electric-only running before the gasoline engine kicked in under cold Connecticut winter conditions.
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Another test used centralized billing, just as you pay your electric bill.
The Karma's all-electric range was found to be 32 miles by the EPA under its test criteria.
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Their first test in October 2007 was a success: An all-electric car plugged in at the University of Delaware and rigged with communication software responded to a signal from PJM for a sudden burst of power to help balance supply and demand on the grid.
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