Posts Tagged ‘Electric Vehicles’
EVs Voted Most Likely To Succeed
You gotta love a list. Especially when it features innovators and it comes from our friends at the Atlanta-based Mother Nature Network.
Ladies and Gents, we give you the top 10 EVs most likely to succeed, from the proverbial pen of Jim Motavalli, courtesy of MNN, and published in Forbes, which is big on lists.
The ringleader here runs a mere $845,000.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/eco-nomics/2011/08/29/the-top-10-electric-cars-most-likely-to-succeed/
P.S.: Please note the image used is of the Chevy Volt photographed at our very own Washington Auto Show.
As if the Nissan Leaf wasn’t already hot enough…
The all-electric car has found a new spokesman for its product in uber-sexy environmentalist Ryan Reynolds.
Reynolds stars in the Green Lantern, which opens in theaters this Friday. In the film, he sports a seemingly superhuman six-pack and rippling muscles. So perhaps unsurprisingly, the actor has also joined Nissan’s Innovation for Endurance fitness campaign to encourage active living.
Don’t want a gas tax? How ’bout taxing by the mile?
There’s talk about taxing drivers by the mile, according to AOL news.
Read on to learn about the debate and why it has EV proponents riled up.
http://tinyurl.com/3qltn62
Volt and Leaf win top safety honors
The Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf nab the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “Top Safety Pick” in the first U.S. crash tests of mainsteam EVs.
“GM and Nissan have demonstrated that you don’t have to sacrifice safety for fuel economy” — IIHS.
Check out the press release and video here:
http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr042611.html
And while we’re at it —
the latest on the Fisker Karma:
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110322/COPY01/303229890/1193
