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Electric carmaker Tesla prepares IPO...from a U.S. automaker since Henry Ford's Ford Motor Co made its share debut in 1956. The IPO represents a landmark in the resurgence of electric car technology that most carmakers had dismissed as impractical until recently. Company... In this article: Tesla Motors, US, Electric car, Elon Musk, Daimler AG, Department of Energy, The Westly Group, and Valor Equity Partners |
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 1 day ago
'Silent' electric cars should carry cowbells
Electric cars should be fitted with a small Swiss cowbell to warn pedestrians they are approaching because of their quiet engines, it has been suggested. The call by Lord McColl, a Tory peer, follows fears that the cars' engines - which...
In this article: Toyota Prius, House of Lords, and Britain
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 1 day ago
Cities bid to start national grid for electric cars
The first steps in setting up a national grid dedicated to electric cars has been announced by the Government. Cities to bid to be first on electric car national grid Photo: AP Cities are to bid for GBP30 million of funding intended to...
In this article: Carbon, Britain, Environmental Transport Association, and Richard Dyer
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Nissan chief: Electric car adoption to be gradual
...hybrid market. Nissan Motor Co., however, can be a leader in the all-electric vehicle market, he said. Nissan is releasing the Leaf electric car in limited numbers next year and plans to put the vehicle into mass-production globally in 2012.
In this article: Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, Steven Rattner, NEW YORK, Climate change, Council on Foreign Relations, and U.S.
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Popular Science | 2 days ago
Roboticists Want to Make You an Electric Car Customized for Your Personal Commute
...a guide to customized car technologies for individual drivers Drivers who want to know energy tradeoffs between gas guzzlers and electric cars may find some help at the ChargeCar project, where researchers have begun investigating how...
In this article: Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh
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CNET News.com | 3 days ago
Intel sees opportunities in wind, electric cars
...vehicles are going to contain a lot of electronics," he said, adding that Intel could see itself being involved certain aspects of the electric car such as energy management and range prediction. "It would be an extension of our business...
In this article: Intel, Venture capital, CNET, and Nintendo
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Times Online | 3 days ago
Former world champion John Surtees tests electric car under the Channel
...champion seven times before switching to cars, did the drive in a Ginetta G50EV, a prototype electric car made in Britain. "It's one of the fastest electric cars and it's got a lot of torque, although you couldn't try it in the tunnel," he...
In this article: John Surtees, The Italian Job, Formula One, Locomotive Act, Ferrari, and Michael Caine
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Makers of electric cars address shortage of recharging station
As their manufacturers see it, the electric cars entering U.S. showrooms as early as next year will be engineering marvels: stylish, battery-operated, zero-emission wonders. Yet for all their technological prowess, there's one practical...
In this article: Anxiety, Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, Chevrolet Volt, Leaf, and United States
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
Group urges gov't to invest in electric cars
...called the Electrification Coalition, is urging Congress to pass a series of tax credits and loan guarantees to help bring 14 million electric cars to the road by 2020. Their plan envisions building up the use of electric vehicles in six to...
In this article: Washington
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Detroit News | 7 days ago
Electric cars to be auto show stars
Chevy Volt | Photo by: David Coates / The Detroit News Electric cars to be auto show stars Electric cars dominated this year's North American International Auto show, prompting planners to devote an entire display and test track to the...
In this article: Cobo Center, Chevrolet Volt, Recession, Anxiety, and Dow Chemical Co.
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Telegraph.co.uk - Top ten stories | November 12, 2009
Electric cars 'could increase carbon emissions'
...will increase. "Even if the grid has the capacity and the basic infrastructure to meet the needs of electric cars, the new demand patterns they will create may mean greater use of coal and nuclear power," the report argues. Coal-fired...
In this article: Carbon, Coal, Environmental Transport Association, Nuclear power, Andrew Davis, and UK
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An electric car is an alternative fuel automobile that uses electric motors and motor controllers for propulsion, in place of more common propulsion methods such as the internal combustion engine (ICE). Electric cars are specifically a variety of electric vehicle created or adapted for use on the road. Electric cars are commonly powered by on-board battery packs, and as such are battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Other on-board energy storage methods that are expected to come into use in the future include ultracapacitors, fuel cells, and a spinning flywheel which stores kinetic energy.
Electric cars enjoyed popularity between the mid-19th century and early 20th century, when electricity was among the preferred methods for automobile propulsion, providing a level of comfort and ease of operation that could not be achieved by the gasoline cars of the time. Advances in ICE technology soon rendered this advantage moot; the greater range of gasoline cars, quicker refueling times, and growing petroleum infrastructure, along with the mass production of gasoline vehicles by companies such as the Ford Motor Company, which reduced prices of gasoline cars to less than half that of equivalent electric cars, led to a decline in the use of electric propulsion, effectively removing it from important markets such as the United States by the 1930s.
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