Auto Outlook: Drivers wanting better mileage look to foreign cars

Source: United Press International

To avoid a meltdown in 2006, Ford Motor Co. mortgaged the farm putting up its assets â including its Blue Oval logo, and F-150 pickup and iconic Mustang trademarks â to secure $23.5 billion in credit. To avoid a meltdown in 2006, Ford Motor Co. mortgaged ...
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Electric cars a highly charged topic

Source: SeacoastOnline.com

While increasing, electric cars remain a limited option The Nissan Leaf is the best-selling all-electric sedan, which doesn't mean it’s high-volume.SHNS photo courtesy Nissan If electric cars were as common as opin ...
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Elon Musk's glamorous life, pitfalls mirror those of Iron Man alias

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 27, 2012 12:16 am Share with others: By Tiffany Hsu / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- Tony Stark, alias Iron Man, is suave, brilliant, mega-rich and dripping with beautiful women. Sounds an awful lot like El ...
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MARK PERRY: No amount of subsidies can ignite electric car sales

Source: New Haven Register

It’s tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars — vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans — this nation’s costly little secret. But it’s no secret, and that ...
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Cleantech investment slows but many backers remain hopeful

Source: Contra Costa Times

of startups. Wind is dead in terms of startups," Lamond said. "Venture capitalists have to make money for their limited partners, and it's easier to make money in social media." The Brookings Institution last month warned that fed ...
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Business › Nissan begins testing NV200-based EVs with retailer AEON

Source: Japan Today

Nissan Motor Co has begun tests of an electric vehicle (EV) based on the compact commercial vehicle NV200. AEON Retail Co Ltd will use the EV test cars as delivery vehicles within the Tokyo metropolitan area for their innovative, new online business. Th ...
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French EVs account for 0.2 percent of new car sales

Source: AutoblogGreen

Nissan and General Motors would've been clicking their heels if electric vehicles accounted for one in 500 new cars last year. But in the homeland of big EV builder Renault , not so much. EV sales in France have accounted for less than 0 ...
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Nicholas L. Cain: Long-term benefits far outweigh cost of subsidies

Source: GulfToday.ae

Oil prices in the United States have fallen over the last few months and tensions have eased a bit in the Middle East. But despite these hopeful signs, the price of oil on international markets remains at record highs – and the IMF ...
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Historicist: The Dawn of the Horseless Era

Source: Torontoist

The vehicle at right is believed to be the first automobile in Toronto, photographed circa 1912. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 56. On December 7, 1896, the Globe heralded “the dawn of the horseless era” in Tor ...
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