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Racing toward green motoring - Detroit Free Press

Racing toward green motoring
Detroit Free Press, United States - 5 hours ago
Aylett said if the motorsports industry seizes the opportunity to foster fuel-efficient technology, it could contribute to an automotive industry that

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New flying car hope - Detroit Free Press

New flying car hope
Detroit Free Press, United States - 3 hours ago
One leap that engineers and tinkerers have never quite made, however, but refuse to let die: the flying car. Year after year a few more try.

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Your Great-Grandfather May Have Owned One: The Electric Car - Sierra Mountain Times


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Your Great-Grandfather May Have Owned One: The Electric Car
Sierra Mountain Times, CA - 1 hour ago
The latest buzz from Detroit’s General Motors is an electric car from Chevrolet, which will be called the Volt and will have a rechargeable battery and a
A good news, bad news saga regarding auto companies and fuel BloggingStocks
Auto Makers Work Out Fuel-Efficiency Game Plans Wall Street Journal
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GM set to bring Volt electric car to Europe - Financial Times

GM set to bring Volt electric car to Europe
Financial Times, UK - 7 hours ago
By Bernard Simon in Toronto General Motors is planning to rebadge its Chevrolet Volt electric car as an Opel and bring it to Europe as part of the US
Video: Chevy Says Volt Is on Schedule, Despite Issues AssociatedPress
Electric Vehicles of America: Helping drivers go electric & but Scientific American
GM announces improvements to electric car design Detroit Free Press
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GM set to bring Volt electric car to Europe - Financial Times


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GM set to bring Volt electric car to Europe
Financial Times, UK - 1 hour ago
By Bernard Simon in Toronto General Motors is planning to rebadge its Chevrolet Volt electric car as an Opel and bring it to Europe as part of the US
Video: Chevy Says Volt Is on Schedule, Despite Issues AssociatedPress
GM to finish electric car design by mid-September Reuters
Toyota making progress on plug-in car The Age
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Wind power is costly, ineffective source of electricity - Detroit Free Press

Wind power is costly, ineffective source of electricity
Detroit Free Press, United States - 26 minutes ago
A single 1000-MW nuclear power plant would reliably generate more electricity than 2800 1.5-MW intermittent wind turbines on 175000 acres.

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Revved up: What's not and what's not in autos - Detroit Free Press

Revved up: What's not and what's not in autos
Detroit Free Press, United States - 41 minutes ago
GM shows a tiny bit more of the plug-in electric car. Only two more years of teasing left. Stalled: Gas prices for the Dream Cruise.

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WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE Experts pick the cruisers of the future - Detroit Free Press

WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE Experts pick the cruisers of the future
Detroit Free Press, United States - 28 minutes ago
"But I'll bet you'll also see a Chevrolet Volt," the electric car due in 2010. "It'll be a unique powertrain and that'll tend to make some people choose it,

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Electric Vehicles of America: Helping drivers go electric & but … - Scientific American


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Electric Vehicles of America: Helping drivers go electric & but
Scientific American - 1 hour ago
Remember the fabled General Motors EV-1—immortalized in the film Who Killed the Electric Car? It was nice little auto: peppy acceleration with a pretty
Video: Chevy Says Volt Is on Schedule, Despite Issues AssociatedPress
GM to finish electric car design by mid-September Reuters
GM announces improvements to electric car design Detroit Free Press
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Experts pick the cruisers of the future - Detroit Free Press

Experts pick the cruisers of the future
Detroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour ago
"But I'll bet you'll also see a Chevrolet Volt," the electric car due in 2010. "It'll be a unique powertrain and that'll tend to make some people choose it,

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Cruisers of the future - Detroit Free Press

Cruisers of the future
Detroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour ago
"But I'll bet you'll also see a Chevrolet Volt," the electric car due in 2010. "It'll be a unique powertrain and that'll tend to make some people choose it,

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Toyota making progress on plug-in car - The Age


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Toyota making progress on plug-in car
The Age, Australia - 5 hours ago
not comment on Toyota's system, but he said GM is building the Volt because of expertise it learned from building the EV1 electric car in the 1990s.
Video: Chevy Says Volt Is on Schedule, Despite Issues AssociatedPress
GM announces improvements to electric car design Detroit Free Press
GM engineer says rechargeable car is on schedule The Associated Press
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GM announces improvements to electric car design - Detroit Free Press

GM announces improvements to electric car design
Detroit Free Press, United States - 35 minutes ago
In addition, Boniface shared some detail about the center console of the extended-range electric vehicle, which GM plans to launch in late 2010.

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Over 33000 buyers signed up for GM electric car - Reuters


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Over 33000 buyers signed up for GM electric car
Reuters - Aug 14, 2008
By Kevin Krolicki DETROIT (Reuters) - In a bid to show the demand for the upcoming all-electric Chevrolet Volt, a proponent of the car has released details

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Much uncertainty remains five years after blackout - Detroit Free Press

Much uncertainty remains five years after blackout
Detroit Free Press, United States - 1 hour ago
By using clean technologies, such as wind and solar, and by reducing our energy consumption, we can meet our state's energy demands while keeping jobs and

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Green vehicles ready to pose at NextCruise - Detroit Free Press

Green vehicles ready to pose at NextCruise
Detroit Free Press, United States - 28 minutes ago
"Whether you're a commuter or a true gearhead, people are fascinated with coming up with new, clean and green technology." The Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell

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Green vehicles ready to pose at Saturday's NextCruise - Detroit Free Press

Green vehicles ready to pose at Saturday's NextCruise
Detroit Free Press, United States - 12 minutes ago
"Whether you're a commuter or a true gearhead, people are fascinated with coming up with new, clean and green technology." The Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell

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Environmental issues take center stage among voters - Detroit Free Press

Environmental issues take center stage among voters
Detroit Free Press, United States - 2 hours ago
Environmental issues cover a broad spectrum, from global warming to protecting the Great Lakes. In most national voter polls, those issues have been low on

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Will lawmakers' fears cost state new energy policy? - Detroit Free Press

Will lawmakers' fears cost state new energy policy?
Detroit Free Press, United States - 12 hours ago
power from wind, solar and other non-fossil-fuel sources. Granholm, who has been aggressively recruiting advanced energy and other clean-technology

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Jobs Fund grant helps fuel alternative-energy technology development - Crain’s Detroit Business

Jobs Fund grant helps fuel alternative-energy technology development
Crain’s Detroit Business, MI - 12 hours ago
Detroit's Next-Energy, a nonprofit that seeks to commercialize energy technologies, is assisting Nth Power in identifying early stage alternative-energy
Paying the power bill: Utilities seek tax breaks as state looks to Crain’s Detroit Business
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