Chevy Volt
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Is the Chevy Volt really an electric car?
The Chevy Volt will be in showrooms soon and that's raising the question of whether it's an electric car wannabe.
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The climate clock ticks faster, a solar campus, butter as biofuel, and 7 more green tales
Ten stories you might have missed from the greenosphere.
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California's Bay Area ponies up for electric-car charging stations
The Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt will hit dealer showrooms in just a few months. To make sure Bay Area buyers have places to charge their new EVs, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District just agreed to subsidize installation of more than 5,000 public and private charging stations.
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Can't afford an electric car? Rent a Nissan Leaf
Enterprise Rent-a-Car will loan out Nissan Leafs in Phoenix, Tucson, Knoxville, Nashville, San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle.
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Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt? Choosing your green drive
Are you a Volt kind of gal or a Leaf guy? General Motors and Nissan are revving up to put the first mass-produced electric cars in showrooms.
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GM bets Volt will move Californians to buy American
Chevy hopes the Volt takes California by storm.Photo: Todd WoodyIf you happened by an empty parking lot near San Francisco’s waterfront baseball park Tuesday morning, you would have seen some people putting a low-slung black sedan through its paces on a makeshift track outlined by fluorescent orange pylons. What was remarkable was not so much […]
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The award for the reporter who is as confused about plug-in hybrids as the folks he quotes …
… goes to Mike Musgrove of the Washington P0st for his piece, “As carmakers plug ‘green,’ Washington Auto Show consumers have plenty of questions.” As evidence of the kind of questions that puzzled consumers have about how plug-in cars work, Musgrove writes: The unmistakable message is that the day of the electric and hybrid car […]
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What does it mean for a car to get 230 miles per gallon?
GM has created a bit of buzz around its claim that the Chevy Volt gets 230 miles to the gallon in city driving. From the internet a great chorus has replied: “This number doesn’t make any sense!†And it doesn’t.