Tesla Motors Receives $40 million Cash Influx to Avoid Insolvency
Tesla Motors has been promised $40 million in financing in order to avoid bankruptcy and insolvency. The electric car manufacturer has had a tough couple of months. First, there was a pretty huge round of layoffs and then their Detroit office closed down.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Audi Releases Information Regarding the A1 Sportback Hybrid Electric Car
Audi has announced another green vehicle based on it’s A1 hybrid concept. The five-door A1 Sportback will go from 0-62 MPH in 7.9 seconds, reach a top speed of 124 MPH and manage up to 72.4 miles from a gallon of fuel.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Photo of Tesla 4-door All-electric Model S Sports Sedan Revealed
Tesla has revealed a finalized photo of their 4-door, all-electric Model S sports sedan, shown above. The car was designed completely by Tesla and will get around 240 miles per charge. It will also go from zero to sixty in approximately six seconds.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Australia commits to huge electric car grid - 600,000 stations by 2012
Australia, location for the classic film “Kangaroo Jack”, is building over 600,000 electric car stations. This gigantic ongoing infrastructure project won’t be done until 2012, at which time Australia will point and laugh at us Americans as we wait angrily at ever-increasing gas lines.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Rolls Royce CEO talks up electric Phantom
It’s easy to imagine electric Honda Civics or Chevy Malibus, but electricity powering the creme de la creme of automobiles? A bit harder to imagine. Not for long, says Rolls Royce CEO Tom Purves.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BMW’s MINI E readies for lease
BMW is readying the all-electric MINI E automobile. The motor offers 204 hp of pure electric power. The auto boasts a 150 mile range off of it’s 35 kWh lithium-ion battery pack. It can hit 62 mph in 8.5 seconds and completes a full charge in just 2.5 hours. In other words, it’s perfect.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Green Delivery
Hand it to the Brits - a British chain of supermarkets, Tesco, won an award for using Modec EV vans in their home delivery fleet.
These have a 100-mile range and are especially useful in cities because they do not idle (wasting electricity - or fossil fuels) so traffic congestion is no problem.
Great idea - [...]
Electric Car War
Toyota has stumbled in the all-electric car race and now GM thinks it sees the finish line.
Because battery-safety problems, Toyota is delaying the plug-in, lithium-ion-based model until 2011.
Meanwhile, GM has just solidified a deal with Massachusetts-based A123 Systems to produce flat lithium-ion batteries for use in their future plug-in electric vehicles, like the Chevy Volt. [...]
Electric Car by Edison/Ford
The electric companies want to keep their fingers in the consumer pie and continue to push for electric cars. Ford and Edison are embarking on this very project — in the creation of vehicles capable of being plugged into a power outlet. The new cars will use a combustion engine in a hybrid mode.
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