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2011 Pirelli calendar presented by Karl Lagerfeld
Filed under: Etc. , Design/Style 2011 Pirelli Calendar by Karl Lagerfeld – Click above for high-res image gallery The Pirelli Calendar is an annually produced gift, intended for friends and VIPs who associate with the top-tier tire manufacturer
Video: EVO's Chris Harris takes on the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Videos , Bugatti , Luxury Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport reviewed by EVO’s Chris Harris – Click above to watch video after the jump We know what resident lucky bastard Autoblog contributor Rex Roy thinks about the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport . Now we get another perspective on the hypercar courtesy of EVO magazine’s Chris Harris. His thoughts?
Race of Champions adds Tesla Roadsters to roster
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Europe/EU , Germany , Racing Tesla Roadster 2.5 with 2010 F1 champion Sebastian Vettel – Click above for high-res image gallery The Race of Champions (RoC) is a competition between many of the planet’s greatest drivers going head to head in a variety of identically prepared vehicles. This year saw a cleaner, greener machine added to the roster with the inclusion of Tesla Roadsters
Calstart to host first French-American electric vehicle forum
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Nissan , Peugeot , Europe/EU , USA On December 8th, Calstart , in conjunction with UBI France , will host the 1st French-American EV Technology Forum and it’s open to the general public.
Report: GM studying how to double or triple Chevy Volt production
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Manufacturing/Plants , Chevrolet , GM Early Volts reportedly cost $40,000 to build How’s your math? If you have 240,000 “potential buyers” but only 10,000 vehicles to sell them in the first year, what can you do? If you’re General Motos and the item in question is the Chevrolet Volt , then you look for ways to seriously increase the number of Volts you can build (and, of course, sell).
Cracker Barrel to install high-speed plug-in vehicle charging stations at 24 Tennessee restaurants
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , USA Crackel Barrel Old Country Store, the restaurant chain that’s modeled to represent a time when Americans spent much of their day lounging around in rocking chairs on covered porches, will steam into the 21st century by installing Blink electric vehicle charging stations, provided under ECOtality’s EV Project , at 24 of its eateries across Tennessee. Twelve of the 24 Cracker Barrel locations slated for charger installs next spring have been identified and all are located in the “Tennessee Triangle,” a 425-mile stretch of land connected by I-40, I-75 and I-24. Select locations – 12 of them to be exact – will feature Blink’s DC Fast Charger , allowing restaurant-goers to charge most plug-ins to 80 percent capacity in a mere 20 minutes.
Is Hyundai's plug-in hybrid inching closer to launch?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Hyundai Hyundai Blue-Will Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Back in August, Hyundai chief executive officer John Krafcik proclaimed that the automaker would shoot for a 50-mile-per-gallon fleet average by 2025 .
Honda expects hybrids to account for 23% of its Japan sales next year
Filed under: Hybrid , Honda , Japan European Honda Jazz Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery Honda has an ambitious sales target for its hybrid models in its homeland of Japan. For the next fiscal year, Honda forecasts that hybrids will account for 23 percent of its total sales in its native stomping grounds, up from the 10 percent share that the automaker says the gas-electrics will capture by this year’s end. Looking at the numbers, this is a good news/bad news kind of thing
Report: EU's goal to slash emissions will be offset by China's growth
Filed under: Etc. , Europe/EU , China View from a bell tower in Xian, China Back in October, thirty European companies banded together and called on the European Union (EU) to slash emissions by 30 percent by 2020 .
Supercapacitor breakthrough beats batteries with graphene *UPDATE
Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , USA In the coming decades, hybrids, and maybe even all-electric vehicles, may cruise without batteries.
