green cars, green travel and smart spending
Going Green News: Honda is launching a program that allows owners of its electric vehicles to get money back when they recharge vehicles when demand on their local grid is lowest and availablity of renewable energy is highest. The new Honda SmartCharge program helps you save money and reduce your environmental footprint at the same
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Rimac is a small automotive technology company, based in Croatia, with big plans. They are launching a $2 Million electric supercar using the lithium batteries and systems Rimac produces for brands including Land Rover and Koenigsegg. The Rimac C-Two is a beauty, with stunning good looks power and technology, scissor doors, 1,194 HP, 230 MPH
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Meet the world’s largest electric vehicle, expected to save more than 1,300 tons of CO2 emissions and 125,000 gallons of diesel fuel over the next decade. Not suprisingly, this huge dump truck also has the largest battery ever made for an electric vehicle. The world’s largest biggest electric vehicle is on the job in the
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Once again, the Trump Administration is considering slapping hefty new tariffs on imported vehicles and vehicle parts. And once again, the White House is overlooking millions of foreign cars made in America, hundreds of thousands of Americans who work those foreign car companies in the USA, and the many billions of dollars those foreign car
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Eco-conscious newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drove from the luncheon after their wedding at Windsor Castle to an evening reception in a zero-emissions Jaguar electric vehicle. It is an EV conversion of the classic Jaguar E-Type, which Enzo Ferrari once described as “the most beautiful car in the world”. The new Duke and Duchess
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Travel Technology – A short stretch of road just outside the Stockholm Airport can recharge your electric car or truck when you drive over it. It’s in the test stage now, and if successful, this electric road could be a model for making it easier to own and drive EVs long distances. The electrified rail
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Seats five comfortably, head-turning good looks, and costs $37,490 fully loaded with all kinds of safety features not usually found at this price. Ditto the paddle shifters and leather-wrapped steering wheel. I was even more impressed by the fuel economy. I clocked an impressive 51.6 average MPG, nearly 10 miles more per gallon than the
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What a concept! The future will be here before you know it, and so will some of the concept cars manufacturers have been showing at auto shows around the world. Every carmaker spends millions on R&D, and concepts are an important preview of what’s down the road for design and technology, arriving in our driveways
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If you thought electric vehicles and PHEVd are just for commuter cars, you haven’t been plugged in to some of the biggest news in electrification. EVs are being super-sized, with up to 1,000 horsepower and 300 miles or more on a single battery charge. Tesla made news recently with the introduction of a huge Semi
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If there’s still any doubt in your mind about the potential of electric vehicles, let’s bust some myths about EVs: That they don’t work in extreme cold, can’t go fast, and that they won’t grow up to be heavy-duty vans or big trucks. As EVs drive into the mainstream, it’s time to shatter those misconceptions
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