What holds back electric cars? Car dealers, says VC
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Those dealer contracts have to be broken or skirted for electric cars to get to the mass market.
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Pick your vehicle&#151;stock car, motorcycle, pickup truck, riding lawn mower&#151;and competitors in the United States race them. So, too, the solar-powered car.
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 31--California's much-vaunted law restricting greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles won't make a dent in global warming, even if adopted worldwide, a group of automobile manufacturers declared Wednesday.
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The Zeo runs purely on batteries. It's a direction the other big automakers are not so keen about.
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China's Small Industries Struggle to be Green (3) Meanwhile, for small industries, even if the entrepreneurs want to make their plants energy friendly by upgrading the technologies, getting loans from the bank is not easy.
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Before any law has been passed, carmakers are putting on stability control systems. They like their buyers alive. Rollovers are the safety curse of sport utility vehicles.
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The issue of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars has lodged in the brains of car industry executives, but the evidence under the bonnet at the Geneva car show is less conclusive.
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Plug-in electric cars could defeat Toyota's Prius and recharge Detroit. And Detroit desperately needs recharging. By John Gartner.
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A recovery in the economy later this year will keep U.S. vehicle sales from plunging as deeply as the most bearish forecasts suggest, according to an outlook released on Sunday by the group representing U.S. auto dealers.
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Two start-ups are coming that will lease, rather than sell, batteries to consumers. Isn't this what big, bad GM did?
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Sales of small pickups are still in the dumps, but car companies have thoughts about picking up this business.
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DetroitÂs big rebates and interest-free financing deals have strengthened car sales for the last three years. But they have also eroded the resale value of many American automotive brands.
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The world&#39;s auto industry that meets this week at the International Motor Show (IAA) is counting on innovation and new models to stand out amidst fierce competition and pressure to preserve the environment.
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A patent filed by EEStor promises to replace electrochemical batteries, allowing motorists to plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip without gasoline. Some plug-in hybrids on the drawing board have to be charged overnight and promise only 50 miles of gas-free commute. Could this be the death knell for the internal combustion engine?
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Vendors worry about the impact on their own businesses. Also: Satellite radio car competition & hellip;. A Chinese car powered by bleach & hellip;. and more.
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With the advent of electric cars and plug-in hybrids, the humble car battery is now taking center stage in new research.
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The car industry says low emission cars already exist, but that motorists do not want to buy them.