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Articles about electric cars (0-50 of 1089)
- Choosing Big Presents For Kids
By: Nick Singh1 | - The majority of adults can remember their childhood years, whether it was a time of innocence or rather more difficult. One thing the majority of youngsters have in common is their desire for great toys to play with. As technology has progressed, so too has the toy industry and many products available today seem amazingly high tech in comparison to those on the market just a few years ago. In the approach to occasions like Christmas, parents/guardians and relations tend to be bombarded with adve ...
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- What Is An Electric Vehicle Conversion Specialist
By: Ezra Drissman | - Electric vehicle conversion refers to the modification of a conventional internal combustion engine or the ICR driven vehicle to one that is battery electric propulsion, thus creating a battery electric vehicle.
The career outlook for an Electric Vehicle Conversion Specialist is good. They make on average $39-$59 thousand a year. Electric vehicles are quickly becoming a mainstay in the auto arena.
Many major automobile manufacturers in the US have started performing ICE ...
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- Kids Electric Trikes Make Great Christmas Presents
By: Nick Singh1 | - Come Autumn, and the shops start preparing us for Christmas. Its like, Summers over, lets all get excited about the festive season, straight away. Going to the supermarket or town centre suddenly becomes a bit of a minefield, especially if the kids are there, as the ever present cry of I want that! seems to be prevalent in the air. No wonder people are taking more and more to shopping online.
However, getting the children aware of Christmas early does have its bene ...
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- What Is An Electric Vehicle Electrician
By: Ezra Drissman | - Electric vehicles are been touted as the newest green initiative mandated by the government. They want to see them widely manufactured as a means to cut dependence on foreign oil and as part of a movement to find alternative energy sources.
The career outlook for an electric vehicle electrician is good. They make on average $39-$59 thousand a year.
An electric vehicle will obviously require repair by somebody other than a person trained in traditional automobile mechani ...
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- Doing Your Christmas Shopping Early
By: Nick Singh1 | - At this time of year, some of us take a look at the calendar and cannot believe it is nearly Christmas already. Local supermarkets already have advent calendars and selection boxes galore, and the Xmas catalogues will start arriving in the post. With all this advertising in mind, some of us decide its a good idea to start writing our Christmas present lists; at least this way, we might make some bargains and beat the last minute shoppers.
For those of us who have little kids to b ...
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- 24v Electric Cars "€" The Ultimate Toy?
By: Nick Singh1 | - Both parents and children tend to share enthusiasm for high tech toys, and adults are often as excited as kids in the run up to presenting them with a great gift for a birthday or for Christmas. There is a growing trend in purchasing boys and girls their very own vehicle electric, ride-on toy cars, tractors and bikes are designed with youngsters in mind. Children have unrivalled imagination, often mimicking adults in their play and like nothing more than games and toys which make them feel m ...
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- Snazzy Electric Cars At The Frankfurt Motor Show
By: Jeff Gilory | - The biggest automobile trade show globally, the Frankfurt Motor Show, began on September 17 and was host to close to eight hundred exhibitors from thirty countries. The biennially held trade show in Frankfurt, referred to as A Moving Experience this year, is a place for car companies to show off their innovative technology and concept cars, widely identifying the potential trend of the universal automotive industry. More than that, it is also a gathering to consult on ideas based on themes ...
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- Where Are We With Electric Cars
By: Jeff Gilory | - The rather accepted electric car appears to be gaining pace in selected markets in these previous couple of years. Even though nowhere nearly as widespread as gas run or even hybrid cars, with environmental problems and uncertain oil reserves, the impending era surely appears to be electric. Governments all over the world are supporting research and development of electric cars with aims of widespread usage within the next ten years or so. A bunch of businesses have individually or jointly made ...
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- Electric Cars: Driving The Future
By: Michael Skatoli | - Basic ZEVs are already available to motorists in many places and are due to become dramatically more sophisticated and widespread in the next few years.
The concept of an electric car is nothing new, it has been around for decades. That said, the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions in the fight to slow global warming has sped up the development of the next generation of road transport.
Affordable electric cars and ZEVs are already being manufactured and will soon ...
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- Indian Electric Cars Getting Ready For A Big Show
By: carazoo.com | - The economically mature western countries are moving towards greener mobility which has opened the gates of opportunity for Indian car manufacturers lately. The Indian companies like Tata Motors and Reva Electric Car Company(RECC) have set in motion huge plans for European and U.S. markets.
An electric version of Tata Indica Vista is on cars for the Scandinavian country Norway and RECC is looking at the lucrative U.S, markets. But both companies release that Europe and North Ame ...
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- Looking At Fuels Of The Future
By: Jill Black | - As the future of the American automobile industry seems uncertain there has been a lot of talk about the cars of the future. Unfortunately, less and less people can afford a new car now, let alone a possibly more expensive car with green technology. But gas prices are edging up again, despite oil prices continuing to fall. There is doubt that Americans will experience the sudden gas hike of the summer of 2008 again anytime soon, but it's not a bad idea to keep an eye on the gas alternatives t ...
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- Top Five Electric Cars
By: carazoo.com | - The environmental hazards have created awareness among the people and to save the earth every one is contributing in some or the other way. A metro like Delhi has taken the initiative of saving nature.
More people are opting for eco-friendly cars now. Alternative fuels like CNG and LPG has changed basic transportation in the Capital and close to 10% of private cars run on it and now it is the time for the electric car to make its presence. Electric car are not only affordable but ...
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- Hybrid Vehicles- Technology For Tomorrow
By: Max Info | - Men have been invented new technologies time by time. It is said that Necessity is the mother of invention. The inventions helped men for growing easily and in the routine works of the man. When men needed something to be changed and they changed the things. When something was not appropriate for the man then men changed them. The new changes are said to be inventions. The vehicles are used by men since many decades. Men have been using petrol and diesel since many years. By the time, men ...
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- Reasons For Popularity Of Hybrid Vehicles
By: Max Info | - The popularity of the non-traditional energy sources are increasing since more than two decades. People have known about the advantages of the hybrid non-traditional energy sources over the traditional sources. Non traditional energy sources such as solar energy have a lot of advantages over the traditional sources. The hybrid cars and especially electric cars are getting more popularity nowadays in the automotive market. There are some reasons for this much popularity of hybrid vehicles. In thi ...
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- How Electric Car Works
By: Max Info | - Electric cars are shown up in the news nowadays. The hybrid vehicles and especially the electric cars are talk of the town. The electric car is the best alternative for the petroleum cars. The reason for this includes many statements. The electric cars have a lot of advantages over the old fashioned petroleum cars. The popularity of the electric cars has reached almost all over the world. We are taught in schools about the alternative sources of energy. The alternative sources of energy are sola ...
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- Facts Of The Hybrid Batteries
By: Max Info | - Hybrid word means a combination of two separate things. There are many things in this world which are hybrid. The hybrid batteries are the batteries which can supply power for the hybrid vehicles to run. In the case of hybrid batteries, the batteries that can use the two technologies are said to be hybrid batteries. The HEVs or Hybrid Electrical Vehicles uses this type of hybrid battery to get power. This way, the owners of the hybrid cars uses less petrol; the gas engine would run that amount o ...
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- Hybrid Cars - Which Is The Best ?
By: Bercle George | - Which is the best hybrid car ever made so far? Who can point to a hybrid vehicle and say this is the best hybrid car? Well, if you really want to make a difference, let me tell you this is something very difficult to do. Just think about the competition in the car industry. Each and every car maker has one important goal in their range of activity, namely to create better green vehicles, and hopefully the best hybrid car.
Several factors indicate the candidates for the title of " ...
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- Hybrid Cars - Toyota Motor Corporation
By: Bercle George | - Toyota hybrid cars were the first to hit the market. After decades of quality gas-fueled vehicle manufacturing, Toyota Motor Corp. redirected its creative efforts in an environment friendly direction. The first model from the Toyota hybrid cars was Prius that made a true revolution in the world of automakers. The design of the Toyota hybrid cars is considered superior to all the other similar models available on the market: the engine, the mph rate it gets within a few seconds and all the road c ...
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- Car Auctions Blog - Some Facts About Electric Rc Cars
By: qxmax | - Electric RC cars are the most popular types of RC cars today. This might be because of the fact that every RC car hobbyist begins with this type of vehicle. The operation of an electric RC car is simple enough to be understood even by children. This makes it ideal for the beginner RC car enthusiast.
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Electric RC cars have a lot of advantages. These advantages are what make them appealing to the general public. RC cars, which started as toys, have now become accepted ...
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- The Electric Car Crapshoot
By: Klaus H Hemsath | - Al Gore, Rick Wagoner, Tom Friedman, our President Elect, Barack Obama, and many more celebrities are all heavily favoring and supporting a wholesale changeover from fossil fuel driven cars to electrically powered automobiles.
Their faith is based on the Lithium Ion battery. These batteries are very expensive, are heavy, must be replaced after several years, and require hours for recharging. Lithium is not widely available in the US and must be imported.
Electric ...
Tags: Al Gore, Rick Wagoner, Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, US Energy Policy, electric cars, energy crisis, global overheating, liquid transportation fuels, renewable a
- Electric Cars: Why They Are The Best Alternatives
By: AdamBoulton | - Electric cars, as the name indicates, are vehicles that work on electricity and whose only source of power is electricity. They are also known as battery electric vehicles. The most advantageous feature of electric cars is that they are zero emission vehicles and so, do not pollute the atmosphere.
The number of parts in an electric car is also less as against other hybrid cars or cars that run on gas. The noise from electric cars is almost negligible. Basically, an electric car i ...
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- The Future Of Electric Cars In California
By: Samson Paulotti | - Green technology is in the boom in California. Today, the state is the leader in promoting the use of renewable energy sources and fighting global warming. Most buildings and homes in California are now energy-efficient and are using both solar and wind energy resources. And aside from renewable sources, the state is also looking into extending green technology to transportation.
During a recent conference, the governor of California together with a few mayors and council leaders ...
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- An Open Invitation To Mr. Gore
By: Klaus H Hemsath | - Al Gore, our former Vice President and Nobel Prize recipient, has done more than any other human being to warn the world of an impending, global, ecological crisis.
On November 9, 2008 he published an OP-ED article in the New York Times explaining his five-part plan for avoiding this major disaster. He introduces his plan by saying "It is a plan that would simultaneously move us towards solutions to the climate crisis and the economic crisis - and create millions of jobs that can ...
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- Environmentally Friendly Green Electric Cars
By: Joey Lee | - The technology for auto manufacturing has indeed evolved throughout the century. From steam powered automobiles to gasoline guzzlers to hybrid cars, the technology has been evolving. The Japanese, American, German car manufacturers have been constantly competing to offer the best car model and product to the market.
Cars of today are more superior to those of the past. The exterior designs have improved greatly in terms of aerodynamics. This you do not need to put a Ford Model T next to a ...
Tags: Environmentally Friendly Cars, Hybrid cars, electric cars, eco cars, green cars, fuel efficiency
- How To Build Electric Cars
By: Andrew Oke | - So you want to learn how to build electric cars. Well, you've come to the right place. I have successfully built my own electric car and have taught four of my friends how to build electric cars. I was just like you... very skeptical about my ability to build an electric car. I went searching on the internet and found several different plans all of which were too difficult to read, but then I stumbled across a set of plans that I could actually understand! The plans were so crystal clear that an ...
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- Hydrogen Will Change The Future Of The Automotive Industry
By: Todd Ash | - With the prices of gasoline on the rise, and the amount of fossil fuels consumed by the United States, coupled with the effect green house gases are having on our environment, it comes as no surprise that alternative fuels in the automotive industry are being researched.
We hear politicians talk about our fuel alternatives and mention electricity as a real possibility for the automotive industry. We hear things like senator McCain offering enormous amounts of incentive monies t ...
Tags: hydrogen, electricity, mccain, gasoline, technologies, electric cars, hydrogen operated, hydrogen gas
- Electric Cars - How To Build Them
By: Andrew Oke | - While many people I talk to tell me that there is no way the they could build electric cars themselves, I tell them they are dead wrong. After helping 4 of my friends (one who has NO mechanical skills at all) I'm pretty confident when I say anyone can build their own electric cars.
After all, the reasons for doing a conversion far outweigh those for not doing one. With the price of gas going up, it is much cheaper to power things with electricity. For example, my friend used to sp ...
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- How To Make Electric Cars
By: Andrew Oke | - When we first wanted to learn how to make electric cars it was almost impossible to find a good set of plans. We searched and searched for how to make electric cars, but it was almost impossible to find plans.
After quite a bit of searching we finally found some plans which told us how to make electric cars... the problem was that after reading them we couldn't understand anything we read! It seemed that the author simply wanted to proved that he was smarter than everyone who was ...
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- The New Generation Of Electric Car Batteries
By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Electric cars run on batteries anywhere from 12 to 24 of them underneath the hood. When it comes time for new batteries, they are actually readily available. The batteries used to run an electric car are similar to those used to power cell phones and even those little vehicles that kids like to drive around the yard. Getting new batteries for your electric car should not be a problem when the time comes.
The reality is that electric car batteries last for quite a long time, so ...
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- Learn The Latest News In Eco Cars?
By: Dominic Donaldson | - The environmentally friendly tag has been banded around as a marketing gimmick in the motor industry for years however it seems that now there are some major companies that are really investing in the technology. I doubt whether it is time for the oil executives to start sweating however there are is some good eco news and this article gives an overview of the latest environmentally friendly developments to hit the motor trade.
One of the biggest companies in the world is General ...
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- Discover The Latest Developments In Electric Cars
By: Shaun Parker | - Cars pollute, kill the planet and generally are not that green are they not? Here is the latest news from the world of the eco-friendly electric cars trying to prove the car hater wrong. The limited edition Micro-Vett electric 500 is an electric, eco version of the famous Fiat 500. This little green-mobile has a maximum speed of 60mph, a range of 70 miles, and takes 6-8 hours to charge.
Transmission is manual 5-speed but there is an automatic option. It weighs around 1050kg, has ...
Tags: Electric Cars, Eco Friendly Cars, Hybrid Cars
- Rc Electric Cars Or Nitro High Power Cars?
By: John Brennan | - When you hear the term radio controlled (RC) nitro high power car, it probably brings to mind events like a Saturday evening at the hot rod races or of the roar of dragsters hurtling down the track making your head spin.
Perhaps its so familiar to you that all you need to do is think of it and you can inhale the exhaust smell and all but hear the roar of the screaming crowd. There are shouts of encouragement as the drivers roar off from the start line in a haze of blue smoke.
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- Run Your Car On Water As Well As Gas - Double Your Mileage
By: Bestyet77 | - Are you ready to run your car on water and laugh at the rising gas cost, while at the same time, you are helping to reduce emissions and preventing global warning?
Anyone can convert their car or truck to burn water as well as gasoline and double their mileage!
With the ever-increasing cost for gas, everyone is thinking about purchasing a flex fuel car to double their mileage.
Why invest thousands of dollars when you can double your own cars mileage b ...
Tags: run your car on water, hydrogen cars, hydrogen powered cars, electric cars, hydrogen fuel cell cars
- Hybrid Car Comparison: Which Hybrid Car Should You Choose
By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Hybrid cars are getting more and more popular today. In fact, more and more people are now purchasing hybrid cars because of a number of reasons. One is that they will enjoy tax incentives as a buyer of a hybrid car, two is that they will be able to save a lot of money from the rising cost of precious, expensive and limited supply of fuel and three, it will enable them to generate less pollution to the environment because of the extremely low toxic emissions generated by hybrid cars.
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- Hybrid Cars Tax Rebate: The Benefits You Get When You Own A Hybrid Car
By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Hybrid cars are one of the latest innovations in the car industry today. Because of the rising cost of fuel, car manufacturers have integrated the hybrid technology in their cars. The concept of the hybrid engine technology is actually very simple to explain. Although hybrid cars still use fuel, it can efficiently save it. This is because the hybrid technology combines the electric motor technology with the gasoline engine.
With the hybrid technology, it allows consumers to save a ...
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- The Pros And Cons Of Hybrid Cars
By: Hilal Abdelwali | - Hybrid cars are considered to be the car of tomorrow. Because of the benefits it can give you, you will definitely want to get one for your own. In fact, more and more people are now considering selling their conventional car and purchase a hybrid car. So, why is it that more and more people prefer getting a hybrid car instead of a conventional car even if hybrid car retail prices are far more expensive?
The answer to this is that these people are thinking of the long term benefit ...
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- Hybrid Cars - Should You Buy A Hybrid Vehicle?
By: Serg Caro | - A hybrid car is a specifically planned and made vehicle that mixes the strength of the conventional gasoline motor and electricity. In the past, many have referred to hybrid cars as electric cars.
Technically, a hybrid automobile can not be classified as just electric because only about 40% of the energy use of the vehicle is from electric sources, in the form of collected electricity in batteries.
As oil costs continue to rise with depleting supplies and rapid exp ...
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- Electric Cars And Other Future Car Technologies
By: roy | - When were the first Electric cars built? A brief outlook on future automobile technologies in pipeline.
Cars have been an object of interest ever since they came out on the streets. Cars and in general all kinds of automobiles not only provides us a very comfortable means of transportation but also proves to be something that we all love to own, talk and even collect.
This article is not about how cars were invented and who hold first patent and the first factory to product the fir ...
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- Fuel
By: Steven G | - $3.39 per gallon I paid for gas today 5-19-07 in Rio Rancho, NM. I heard some stupid citizen/person being interviewed on the news last night say that gas prices are no big deal and that she is getting used to it. Stupid! How many interviews did Albuquerque's local news team have to do before they found some little girl that is okay with spending mommy and daddy's money on gasoline? I do believe that if she was spending any of the $5.15 per hour that she is earning, she would then have a problem ...
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- Energy Conservation In Motion Hybrid Automobiles!
By: Joel Gray | - Automobile companies go to extreme lengths to one up the competition, they roll out new makes and models yearly. The cars of today are lean, mean horsepower monsters showcased in the most beautiful designs imaginable. During times of oil and petroleum crisis, consumers are still waiting in line to purchase the latest automobiles.
So it is very fortunate that there are some manufacturers that came up with the concept of hybrid automobiles. Hybrid cars were developed to save on the ...
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- Save Gas With A Hybrid: 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid
By: Lyn Davis | - Starting at $22,150, the 2006 Honda Civic hybrid is a great choice for any car buyer who seeks a safe, attractive, environmentally-friendly vehicle at an affordable price. Honda retooled the Civic hybrid to make it even better than before. Standard features include an 8-valve 4-cylinder gasoline
engine, anti-lock brakes, front and side cushion airbags, a sleek, multi-tier panel and a top-notch audio system.
Like all hybrids, the 2006 Civic combines a gas engine, powerful ba ...
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- Consider A Hybrid Car To Save Gas
By: Lyn Davis | - Why you should consider a hybrid Vehicle...
Hybrid vehicles work by combining a gas powered engine with an electric motor generator that gets power from a battery pack. You do not need to plug in or charge your hybrid, as most vehicles have the ability to charge themselves while you are driving. This onboard system is called RESS (rechargeable energy storage system).
You may already know that hybrid vehicles are a good way to reduce pollution and harmful emissions a ...
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- The Future Of Alternative Energy For Cars
By: Mike Batta | - During the old hot rodding days,oil was king. It was also only about 25 cents a gallon, and everyone thought there was an endless supply. Then we were hit with the oil shock of the seventies, and we realized that there was not an endless supply of oil (only of lines at the gas tanks) and we had to change our ways. Big, gas guzzling cars had to give way to economy models,and many of the traditional car companies suffered. But continued hish oil usage still threatens the supply.
Th ...
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