January 2012

BMW ActiveE 2 year leases start

January 16, 2012

BMW’s first electric car hits the street Before we get hammered over the head, the MINI E is not a BMW. MINI is owned by BMW, but that does not make it one. That said, BMW learned a lot from its MINI E experience. BMW delivered the first electric BMW – the ActiveE – in […]

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Driving the Toyota Prius v

January 15, 2012

Lackluster performance in today’s station wagon Toyota’s Prius must be credited with changing the way that people think about cars. Honda tried to get a leg up in the United States by beating Toyota to the market here with the Insight, but Toyota Prius actually was the first hybrid sold publicly in Japan in 1997. Prius […]

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Is there a $20,000 EV in your future?

January 12, 2012

Sure, it looks funny – but for 20 Grand? Tata Technologies, the developer of the eMO, is a Tata Group company, of which there are many. Ever hear of Jaguar or Land Rover? Both part of the Tata Group of companies since 2008. Based in India, Tata has over 100 companies with a global presence […]

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Driving the Chevrolet Volt

January 11, 2012

At the San Diego Auto Show The Chevrolet Volt has been out for just over a year, so we figured it was about time that we finally drove one. We had an opportunity to do just that at the San Diego Auto Show. Chevrolet markets the Volt as an extended-range electric vehicle. That is actually […]

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Infiniti to debut range extended electric sports car in Geneva

January 10, 2012
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First mid-ship Infiniti to be range extended EV? This teaser image released by Infiniti today is of the range-extended EV (otherwise known as a plug-in hybrid) to be introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2012. If we understood the video correctly, the range extender will be a 1.2 liter gasoline engine. No word […]

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A big week for Nissan in Detroit

January 9, 2012
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North American International Auto Show to see several Nissan debuts This week is a big week for the automobile industry as the annual North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) kicks off in Detroit. With the slow economy of the last few of years, Nissan corporation has taken a lower profile and actually elected to not […]

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The first DC Fast Charger in greater San Diego

January 8, 2012

Will be in Santa Ysabel? Many reading this will have no idea where Santa Ysabel is. Some reading this will know where Santa Ysabel is, and will never use this fast charging station. Santa Ysabel is about 54 miles Northeast of downtown San Diego. When we say the greater San Diego area, we really do […]

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Karma

January 6, 2012
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Busy week this week, so I won’t post another article until tomorrow. But I had to post this photo of the truck that I saw as I came out of my hotel room this morning. It seemed, to me, a validation of the thought process that I committed to the blogosphere yesterday. As you and […]

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Why I drive an electric car

January 5, 2012
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Pretty simple… it’s the air that we breathe I was driving from San Diego to Orange County for work yesterday. The view above is of the Los Angeles basin as seen from California State Route 73. SR73 is a toll road that spans about 18 miles from Laguna Hills in the South to Costa Mesa […]

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Driving the smart fortwo electric drive

January 2, 2012

Driving car2go’s electric rental car In November we wrote about the car2go car sharing program that came to San Diego. The company offers rental cars by the minute, hour or day. Zipcar also offers a San Diego car sharing service, but Zipcar services basically the University of California San Diego (UCSD) with its few cars […]

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