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Hitting LA Auto Show tomorrow

November 28, 2012
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Looking to check out the new EV action There will be some interesting electric vehicle (EV) launches at the LA show this year – Chevrolet Spark EV and Fiat 500E – along with the availability of some existing EVs that we haven’t driven yet. We hope to get behind the seat of the Honda Fit EV as well as the [...]

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EVs at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

August 13, 2012
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EVs well represented at Pikes Peak 2012 Electric Vehicles (EVs) were well represented at the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb event this year. Of the 87 cars entered seven were electric. Two of those cars finished in the top ten overall. Pictured above is the racing EV of Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima, running a fully electric race [...]

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Nissan LEAF limo finds a home in Tennessee

July 18, 2012
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Visitors to Nissan HQ to arrive green and clean I had read about the creation of the Nissan LEAF limo not long ago by a Missouri coach building firm. I did not, however, expect to be personally impacted by it. As it turns out, the new residence for the first of these to make it [...]

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New electric record set at Nurburgring

June 29, 2012
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Audi R8 e-tron claims glory We have written before about electric cars setting records at the ‘ring. We wrote about Peugeot’s record in May of last year, which was in a concept vehicle. Then again, we wrote about Toyota’s record, with a full-blown electric race car in August. This time, we write about a production [...]

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Renault to offer EV car sharing program in France

June 13, 2012
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Renault Twizy fleet entering test phase The Renault Twizy is a true electric vehicle (EV) city car. What better way to test market a city EV than through a car sharing program, similar to what Daimler is doing with the smart fortwo electric drive that we just wrote about. The Twizy has no aspirations of [...]

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Toyota to enter EV at Pikes Peak

June 8, 2012
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Toyota’s entry a true electric race car Toyota introduced this car at the Nurburgring last year with an amazingly fast 7:47 tour of the ‘ring, establishing a new lap record for electric cars. Now with more power and torque on hand, they plan on taking on the hill. The car has been regeared from its [...]

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Monster EV to attack Pikes Peak

March 29, 2012
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Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima to go electric at the Peak this year Long time readers of Living LEAF know of our penchant toward motorsports activities. Not only is racing fun, but it provides an outstanding platform to explore the boundaries of engineering. Which in this case, is a very good thing, when those boundaries surround an [...]

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The $40,000 golf cart

March 11, 2012
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Really? The bizarre part about this is that the guy that thought it up got someone else to build it. But I guess if you’re already building a $30,000+ version, if you can put a designer’s name on it and sell it for $40,000 we guess that we’d give it a shot too. The above [...]

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Infiniti introduces EMERG-E at Geneva Motor Show

March 6, 2012
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400 Horsepower with 300 mile range The Infiniti EMERG-E concept takes a huge leap forward in Nissan Corporation’s look at the possible future of alternative fuel vehicles. Designed under the direction of Chief Creative Officer Shiro Nakamura, this Infiniti was developed in collaboration with Britain’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) which led to working with Lotus [...]

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LEAF is not Nissan’s only green transportation

January 31, 2012
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Solar panels help reduce emissions on Nissan’s newest transport ship Nissan not only provides zero emission transport for the masses, they also provide reduced emission car carriers to deliver them. Nissan’s Nichioh Maru, nicknamed RORO (as in Roll On, Roll Off – watch the video and you’ll understand) was just introduced as the first energy [...]

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