Mitsubishi upgrade its i-MiEV EV car with now improved range
SANYO and Yokohama hit all-time best record at Pikes Peak
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SANYO announced that the EV racing car powered by SANYO Lithium-ion battery system has hit an all-time record for electric vehicles (EV) for the second consecutive year at the hill-climbing motor sports race, “2011 PIKES PEAK INTERNATI[...]
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Toyota develops low-priced EV charging stand
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Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Media Service showed their jointly developed G-Station, a charging stand for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, at the Smart Grid Exhibition 2011. G-Station verifies and communicates via a non-con[...]
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Toyota to Show New GRMN Hybrid Concept at Nürburgring
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Toyota will show the “GRMN (GAZOO Racing tuned by MN2) SPORTS HYBRID Concept II”, a convertible mid-ship gasoline-electric hybrid concept, at the 39th Nürburgring 24-hour endurance race to be held near Nürburg, Germany, fro[...]
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Build-up your Own “JAMAIS CONTENTE” EV Replica just for the fun of it
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Schedule to be put on the market within this year at a price yet disclosed this the JEVC or Japan EV Club demonstrated at Tokyo Smart Grid Exhibition a DIY EV replica of the French first super car the “JAMAIS CONTENTE” that was the fir[...]
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Waseda and Phiaro Design P70T Conch land at Tokyo Smart Grid Exhibition
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Waseda and Phira Design’s P70T is not a new car per se and has been introduced back in 2009 during the latest Tokyo Motor Show. Still many never heard about this concept and while visit this week Smart Grid Exhibition we could not resi[...]
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Honda Releases the Fit Shuttle and Fit Shuttle Hybrid
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Honda has released the new wagon-style compact car Fit Shuttle, which was delayed due to effects from the Tohoku Earthquake. The gasoline model starts at 1.61 million yen and the hybrid model at 1.81 million yen. The Fit Shuttle Hybrid[...]
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Nissan and JAF to Test Roadside Service Vehicle With EV Charger
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Nissan and the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) today announced a joint trial operation of a roadside service vehicle equipped with a charger to assist electric vehicles (EVs) which run out of battery power. The trial service commence[...]
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Gazoo Racing unleashes race-prepped Lexus CT hybrid at Nürburgring
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Sure Lexus’s CT200h is a hell of a hot hatchback, and its Hybrid powertrain is quite sexy, but frankly speaking I have drove “faster” cars in my life, but then again who’s said that Nothing can be improved? And this is exactly what the[...]
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Sanyo and Yokohama Rubber to team up in Pikes Peak race June 26
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Today Sanyo announced that its lithium-ion batteries will be used in the Yokohama Rubber electric vehicle (EV) operated by “Team Yokohama EV Challenge” for the upcoming 89th annual hill-climbing motor sports race, the ̶[...]
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Pioneer integrates iOS into your automobile with AppRadio
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Pioneer recently unveiled its latest innovation, the AppRadio, which they said is the first in-vehicle product designed to utilize the processing power, storage capacity, network connectivity and apps of the iPhone and iPod touch (runn[...]
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First Video of Nissan Stunning LEAF Nismo RC
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This my friends is the EV you always dreamed of driving! Announced by Nissan last April, the Nissan LEAF Nismo RC is the sportier version of your good old LEAF. Capable to reach naught to sixty in 6.82 seconds (0 to 100km/h) the Leaf N[...]
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Toyota to Add Wrong-way Driving Alert to Navigation Systems
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Toyota announced that it will add a function to its onboard navigation systems that gives on-screen and voice alerts to wrong-way drivers. Jointly developed with Aisin AW Co., Ltd. and Denso Corporation, the function monitors vehicle d[...]
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SIM-Drive’s General Manager Masahiro Waragai gives us personal guided tour its Company SIM-Lei EV
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Early April SIM-Drive announced that its newly developed SIM-Lei electric car reached 333km of range on a single charge! Also when we learned that the company will be attending an exhibition at Tokyo Bight Sight last week we could not [...]
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Toyota launch its new 7 Seater Prius A in Japan today and expect to ship it later next year
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Barely a month after our first test drive of Toyota’s Prius A prototype, Toyota invited us today to the official launch of its new Seven Seater known overseas Prius V in North America and Prius + In Europe. So what’s new here? Well act[...]
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Nissan introduces Nismo Racing Leaf… The Japanese first real Sport EV
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The company who gave us the Nissan GT-R is now on the track to release another road monster with this Leaf Nismo RC a racing based version of the actual Leaf EV. Made for stunning performances this Leaf Nismo RC does not comes however [...]
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Microsoft and Toyota Bringing cloud together to cars
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Both the Software Giant Microsoft and the Car Giant Toyota announced yesterday their partnership to invest a Billion Yen in order to bring telematics to futures Toyota cars thanks to Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Platform. This telemat[...]
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Lexus LF-Gh Hybrid Concept To Make World Debut at 2011 New York International Auto Show
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The LF-Gh, which stands for Lexus Future Grand Touring Hybrid, sets out to redefine the premium grand touring sedan, and good lord those teasing pictures seems promising! Through this exercise, the definition of L-Finesse, the marque’s[...]
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SIM-DRIVE’s SIM-LEI EV reached 333km of range on a single Charge!
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SIM-DRIVE is the Japanese company that gave us in 2004 the Eliica, a unique Electric Lithium-Ion Car that was co produced and designed with one of Tokyo’s finest university: Keio University. With such strong expertise, SIM-DRIVE announ[...]
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Hyundai Blue2 Concept, a new FCEV four mid-size Sedan from Korea
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Hyundai introduced at CES 2011 its Blue Link Technology and impressed us all, today at Seoul Motor Show, the company has introduces a new FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) based on this technology: the Blue 2 Concept. Being a concept t[...]
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Kia unveils its new Naimo Electric Concept at Seoul Motor Show today!
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Kia just released this morning at Seout Motor Show its new Electric Concept the Maimo. The Kia Naimo electric concept car combines Korean heritage with innovative modern features. Taking its name from the Korean word “Ne-mo”[...]
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Honda Announced Internavi LINC an iPhone base service
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Internavi is Honda’s All in One Service that bring a long list of useful data and services to your Honda GPS. Last week Honda has announced that they will offer for Free an iPhone application named Internavi LINC that will, depending o[...]
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antonio - [17/05/2013 - 00:16]