Initial sales of the 2014 Cadillac ELR electrified luxury coupé will begin in January in all major U.S. metropolitan areas featuring interesting coupé design and extended range electric vehicle technology as seen in Chevrolet’s Volt and Vauxhall’s Ampera. Designed for a new generation of technology-driven luxury buyers, the 2014 ELR has a starting price of […]
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General Motors announced today that a 1.8-megawatt rooftop solar array at its Toledo Transmission plant in Ohio would be completed next month. The project, which will generate nearly 3 percent of the plant’s overall electricity consumption, will be the largest rooftop array in Ohio. The energy produced will be enough to power 200 homes in
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Just over 20 years ago, a 17-year-old with a passion for engineering won the prestigious ‘Young Inventor of Great Britain’ award. Ben Hindsley, from Hexham, Northumberland, devised a new type of LED bicycle light that gave 23 times longer battery life. That was 1992. Today Ben is Lead Attribute Engineer on the New Peugeot 308
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Though it is nothing revolutionary that tyres are made from rubber which is a natural product from the rubber tree, it is slightly more eyebrow raising to consider that rubber can be made from flowers; not just any flower either, the humble dandelion. Tyre manufacturer Continental and the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied
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Toyota America has announced it will conduct a voluntary safety recall of approximately 803,000 Model Year 2012-2013 Camry, Camry Hybrid, Avalon, Avalon Hybrid, and Venza vehicles due to a problem with the air conditioning condenser unit housing. In the involved vehicles, water from the air conditioning condenser unit housing could leak onto the airbag control
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Renault UK welcomes the Office for Low Emission Vehicles support for a joint-funded campaign to improve awareness of ultra-low emission vehicles. The Office for Low Emission Vehicles will work with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and five vehicle manufacturers, including Renault, to joint-fund a brand new campaign. Due to launch early next year,
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The Los Angeles Auto Show confirmed that it will host 22 world debuts, making for a total of 56 vehicle debuts overall, to be unveiled in front of a global audience, November 19, 20 and 21, 2013. November 19 will focus specifically on technology announcements held in the Connected Car Expo area of the Los Angeles Convention
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New evidence from Europe has proven that vehicles running on autogas LPG are lower carbon than petrol cars. This includes on average 11 per cent lower CO2 tailpipe emissions compared to the equivalent petrol model. The evidence, taken from an extensive database of vehicle testing information supplied by car manufacturers to the German government, was presented
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Barcelona will host the 27th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition (EVS) on 17 – 20th November 2013. During four days, academic, government and industry leaders will gather in the Spanish city to explore, share and promote the development of electrical vehicles and the technologies to transform transportation as we know it. The city has received
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Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors today announced that the two companies have reached an agreement in which Panasonic will expand its supply of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla. With this agreement, the two companies update and expand their 2011 arrangement to now supply nearly 2 billion cells over the course of four years. The lithium-ion battery
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