Category Archives: Electric

GM Volt owners can get loaner during fire probe

By doris | Published: November 28, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Motors said Monday it will loan cars to any owner of its electric-powered Chevrolet Volt who is worried about the risk of a battery fire after a crash. The automaker, which reasserted the overall safety of the car, had no estimates about how many loaners might [...]

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Ford announces Focus Electric price: $40,000

By doris | Published: November 2, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Ford has begun to take orders for its first plug-in passenger car, the Focus Electric, in New York, New Jersey and California. The car’s price will start at about $39,995, about the same as General Motors’ (GM, Fortune 500) Chevrolet Volt. But unlike the Volt, the Focus [...]

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GM announces Chevy Spark fully electric car

By doris | Published: October 12, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Motors, maker of the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, will sell a small totally electric car beginning in 2013, the automaker announced Wednesday. The Chevy Spark EV will be sold in limited markets in the U.S. and other countries, GM said. Smaller than a typical subcompact, the [...]

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Made with wind power, now branded

By doris | Published: June 15, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The wind power industry unveiled a new standard Wednesday that will qualify products to get its WindMade consumer logo. Products made with electricity that’s at least 25% derived from wind power will meet the new standard and be awarded the WindMade logo. The logo — three concentric blue [...]

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Ford announces Chevy Volt competitor, C-Max Energi

By doris | Published: June 9, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Ford will soon produce a competitor to General Motors’ Chevrolet Volt. The new van-like compact car, due out next year, will be available in the U.S. in two hybrid versions. One of those, the C-Max Energi, will be a plug-in hybrid with capabilities similar to those of [...]

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Refrigerator Redux: How to Put Your Electric Bill on Ice

By doris | Published: May 2, 2011

Full Story at DailyFinance.com With families across the country struggling to economize, the electricity bill looms as a great place to cut expenditures. While unplugging laptops and installing compact fluorescent bulbs can certainly help trim your power bill, those items only account for a fraction of the average household’s electricity expenditure. To really cut down, [...]

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Electric Car Boom Could Deliver a Surge in Grid Power

By doris | Published: April 30, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com (gigaom.com) — Here’s the bad news about electric vehicles: They’re going to be hell on the grid. The Utilities Telecom Council trade group reports that electric vehicles will require a 16-fold increase in power usage in the next decade, putting pressure on utilities to find out how to handle car charging [...]

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GE to buy most of Converteam in $3.2B deal

By doris | Published: April 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — General Electric Co. said Tuesday it will spend $3.2 billion for a controlling stake in French equipment developer Converteam as it continues to position itself as a major player in what’s expected to be a 20-year boom in oil and natural gas demand. Converteam, which serves a variety [...]

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U.S. sales of Smart cars hit a wall

By doris | Published: February 18, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com FORTUNE — Don’t feel too sorry for automotive mogul Roger Penske, who this week threw in the towel on the exclusive U.S. distribution rights for the Smart line of small cars. Investors were cheering his decision Wednesday, along with the financial results of Penske Automotive Group (PAG, Fortune 500), bidding shares [...]

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Nissan Leaf: 99 miles per gallon

By doris | Published: November 23, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Nissan Leaf electric car will get the equivalent of 99 miles per gallon according to its official EPA fuel economy label rating. Since the Leaf uses electricity and not gasoline for fuel, the EPA had to create an “mpg-equivalent” rating. Ninety-nine miles a gallon would make [...]

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Honda recalls vehicles over ignition switch

By doris | Published: August 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Honda Motor Co. is recalling the popular Accord and Civic passenger cars to address problems with an ignition switch that could allow the key to be removed without the transmission being shifted into park, its third recall over the problem since 2003. Honda said the most recent recall involved [...]

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GM to boost Chevy Volt production

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors announced Friday that the automaker has raised its planned production of the Chevrolet Volt electric car to 45,000 in 2012. Originally the automaker planned to produce 30,000 Volts in its second year of production. The announcement coincided with a visit by President Barack Obama to [...]

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Solar power done cheap

By doris | Published: June 29, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com LOS ANGELES (CNNMoney.com ) — In a construction van winding through Los Angeles’ crowded streets one hot spring morning, 25-year old Tim Morris laid bare his contribution to changing America’s dirty, fossil fuel-based economy. “I’d like to see America and the world become sustainable,” said Morris, a transplant from Flint, Mich., [...]

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Carmakers agree to make electric cars noisier

By doris | Published: May 20, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Automakers and advocates for the blind have agreed on a plan to address an unintended problem caused by electric and hybrid cars: They endanger sight-impaired and distracted pedestrians because they make no noise when running on electric power. The groups joined together to present Congress with a [...]

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