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Renault “Get You Home” Guarantee Promises Free Loaners For Tapped EVs, But With A Catch [If You're Stranded Under Certain Circumstances, Renault Will Bring A Loaner To Your Drained Electric Car]

By on Friday, 18. March 2011

Perhaps the most backhanded guarantee ever comes to us from the folks out at Renault, who have introduced their “Get You Home” guarantee, but when you look further at the guarantee, you’ll discover that it really doesn’t cover you as much as you might think.

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GE EV Experience Tour Kicks Off, Hawks WattStations Like Crazy [GE Shows Off Its Big Electric Car Charger On A Grand Tour]

By on Monday, 14. March 2011

We haven’t had a lot of electric car news of late, so it’s good to catch word of the big event that GE’s launching on to promote its line of electric car chargers, the WattStation. They’re calling it the EV Experience Tour, and if you wanted to get a charger [...]

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Tesla Model S Prices And Availability Announced [Electric Sedan From Tesla Coming Next Year, Starting At $49,900 For 160-Mile Battery]

By on Thursday, 10. March 2011

Tesla is facing increased competition in the electric car space in North America this year as he Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt are slowly starting to show up here. Just on cue, Tesla has announced some preliminary pricing and availability information regarding the Model S – that’s their four-door sedan offering. The Model S [...]

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Chevy Volt Launches in Europe [Chevrolet's Volt EV Gets European Launch in Germany. Priced at 41,950 Euro. No Tax Incentives?]

By on Tuesday, 8. March 2011

The Chevy Volt has been one of the most-anticipated EVs due to its design and technology. The Volt got a US release late 2010 with a $42,000 price. Now, the Volt is seeing a European debut.

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Coda Automotive Means To Sell 50,000 Electric Cars By 2015 [Coda Has Big Sales Plans For Its Electric Vehicle Line, Primarily Targeting The United States]

By on Saturday, 5. March 2011

The United States hasn’t exactly been a huge market for electric vehicles. Between the “happy motoring” past which evokes images of fuel-sucking muscle cars roaring into the night or a gigantic 1953 Ford Colossus ambling down the road on a sunny Sunday at a whopping 3.1 miles per gallon, and [...]

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Play Asphalt Audi RS 3 iOS Game & Win an Audi A3 [Gameloft LIVE Contest to Award an Audi A3 Sportback 2.0 TFSI as Prize for Winning at Asphalt]

By on Friday, 4. March 2011

If you love driving and playing arcade games, this is probably the game for you. Gameloft, in cooperation with Audi, is giving away an actual Audi A3 as a prize for playing its latest iOS game.

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Mitsubishi Lancer Evo at End of Life [Mitsubishi is Killing Off its Famed Evolution Street-Legal Rally Car; Will Focus Instead on Green Cars Like EVs & Subcompacts]

By on Thursday, 3. March 2011

Is that a collective sigh we hear from Mitsubishi fans all over the world? If it is, they’re probably sad to see the famed Mitsubishi Evo series reach its end-of-life after a 20-year run.

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Nook Color Hacked, Turned Into In-Dash Car Stereo System [Barnes And Noble's eReader Nook Has Strange New Applications With a Little Engineering]

By on Friday, 25. February 2011

Chances are, when you think of a Nook, your first thought is not of driving down city streets at night with Phil Collins shrieking “In the Air Tonight” with Genesis. But now, as one particularly enterprising soul has discovered, your Nook Color has a lot more use than you might [...]

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TomTom Brings Out Pair of New Models, The Go 2435 and Go 2535 [Few New Attributes Involved In TomTom's New Products--Many Left Wondering What's Up]

By on Thursday, 24. February 2011

I’m very fond of my TomTom navigation system. I love having that little GPS sitting quietly on my dashboard, telling me all the turns I need to make to get to the places I want to go. And if I miss a turn, TomTom will quietly recalculate, and figure out [...]

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Mini Cooper Gaming Chair Built From Parts of A Car, Variety of Appliances [Coming Soon To A Shop In Pimlico, Your Own Mini Cooper Gaming Chair With Host of Amenities]

By on Wednesday, 23. February 2011

I’m torn between wishing these would go into wide release and wondering why they even exist, but one thing is plain as day: the Mini Cooper Gaming Chair is downright impressive.

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