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It was surely no mistake that on the same day that General Motors unveiled pricing for its 2011 Chevrolet Volt, Nissan tried to grab at least some of the plug-in limelight and revealed new details about exactly where it will first roll out the 2011 Leaf. Nissan is making the Leaf EV available in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and...
Electric vehicles are ideal for hopping around town, making frequent stops and carrying heavy loads, so it's not surprising to see the major automakers roll out all-electric commercial vans in addition to more mainstream models. The latest is Mercedes-Benz, which has unveiled its new Vito E-Cell all-electric van and announced a trial fleet more...
The other show has finally dropped and GM has revealed the price of the much anticipated (maybe less so now) 2011 Chevrolet Volt. As you have undoubtedly noticed, the entry-level price will be $41,000 when it rolls into the showrooms later this year. Many analysts and industry experts have already said that any thing over $40K could potentially...
A few hours after Chevrolet announced its pricing structure for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, Nissan have responded with details of the warranty it will offer on its 2011 all-electric Leaf. At the Plugin 2010 Conference in San Jose, California, Carlos Tavares, Nissan's executive vice president and head of operations in America, told a packed audience...
Now that the world knows the price of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and of the 2011 Nissan Leaf...let the PR games begin. To the educated consumer, the difference between a Volt and a Leaf may be slight. Though the Volt uses a range-extending gasoline engine, it's an electric car--since its wheels are turned entirely by the force generated by electric...Cutting-edge technology never comes cheaply. Automakers routinely subsidize it in new cars in new markets to gain a foothold, or even a competitive advantage--and still can lose money on innovation.Does Nissan plan to lose money with its upcoming electric car, the 2011 Leaf? "We don't," says Nissan director of product planning Mark Perry. On hand...
When we wrote about the debate over whether silent electric vehicles should have noise legislated into them, we obviously hit a nerve. Now EV enthusiast Mark Larson has added further data to his original analysis of 1994-2008 traffic death figures from the Fatality Reporting System maintained by the NHTSA. He added a new analysis of injury data...
The big news in green cars today will be the noon release of pricing and ordering information for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, GM's upcoming range-extended compact electric car. But GM had more noteworthy news today, all the way from the other side of the world. General Motors, the company pilloried for "killing the electric car," is going to build a...
Electric cars have been in the news a lot as of late; a lot of the news is coming from the much-anticipated announcement of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt entry-level price. We have also heard about the Volt battery warranty and the industry reviews of the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Late today, we started hearing about he Mitsubishi electric mini car—the i-MiEV...
With the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevrolet Volt arriving this fall—if you're so lucky to be one of the top names on the list—the electric vehicle buzz is about migrate from social media platforms and signup lists to real dealership showrooms. Barring the exclusive (and somewhat impractical Tesla Roadster), there simply aren't any fully legal EVs...
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