Recent claims that electric cars are often less ‘green’ than their conventional counterparts have been refuted in the strongest possible way, backed up with considerable evidence. It had been suggested that the pollution released in the production of electricity used by zero-emissions vehicle is actually greater than that exhausted from an equivalent vehicle burning fossil [...]
Sluggish sales of electric cars and hybrids may be attributed in no small to part to lack of education or public ignorance, a new survey has suggested. Generally speaking, car buyers across the United States know little to nothing about electric vehicles and hybrids, according to a statement by market research company Synovate released this [...]
By 2012, Ford Motor Co. will have 7,000 more workers in the U.S. Among these will be 750 engineers charged to design a better battery and technology to overtake General Motor’s current lead with the Chevy Volt. The engineers hired will focus on electric or hybrid vehicles. In 2011 the company will put 4,000 manufacturing [...]
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