This may be the strangest range extender patent ever given it has been filed by an automotive company. Toyota in this case clearly wants to take ride sharing and zero emissions to the next level and arrives where others have long been before.
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Prince Charles says he is looking to add more electric cars to the royal fleet, but seems to be torn between Tesla and Jaguar so far. His Royal Highness has met with Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal and tested a Model X on the occasion.
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Football fans travelling to the World Cup in Moscow in a Tesla car may now go all the way thanks to an initiative of Russian Tesla (and football) fans. They set up two charging stations at hotels along the route through Eastern Europe.
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Now anybody can play at being Elon and build their own life-size electric vehicles. Infento’s new construction kit lineup includes an electric hot rod, a go-kart, a minibike and a quad, as well as several other models.
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Toyota’s versatile concept that is self-driving and electric may build on their cooperation with Seven-Eleven. The technology may find use in the service industry.
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Musk must have gone into his own personal ludicrous mode, or so some may have thought when the Tesla boss first mentioned a Space X trim coming up for the Roadster.
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Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray received a special treat from his local carmaker aka Jaguar Land Rover. The British brand asked their Formula E driver Nelson Piquet jr. to present Murray with their I-Pace.
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BMW’s electric range BMW i has become a full member of the house as the firm launches the latest accessory collection for drivers of the i3 and i8 or those that would like to display a green conscience.
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Forget about gas guzzlers in the common sense. Artist Benedetto Bufalino has found a way hotter use. He converted an old Ford Mondeo into a fully functional pizza oven – all wood fired and stone baked of course.
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Mercedes wants to give people some time to ease into the silence of an electric car. Their latest clip advertising the arrival of their first EQ concept comes with a rather unique ICE soundtrack – not from an artificial but most organic source.
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Ford has come up with what seems to be a bit of a double-edged plan as they want to turn the Michigan Central Station located in Detroit into a hub for the automaker’s electric- and self-driving car activities.
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French EXOMO has teamed up with Aero Composites Saintonge (which made the E-Fan demonstrator for Airbus) to electrify a so-called paramotor. Their 15 kW electric motor drives large propellor that the pilot carries on his back to power a paraglider.
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Of all companies, now Dodge has made advertising which benefits EVs more than their own product. The US manufacturer advertised their gasoline burner Challenger as the fastest serial vehicle for acceleration from 0 to 100 miles per hour. They added a footnote, however, adding that the comparison does not apply for EVs.
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As a celebration of the 100,000th Leaf sold in Japan, Nissan has created a convertible version of the popular EV. Despite it being pretty hot, the Leaf cabrio will not boost sales over the summer months as it is a single custom concept.
Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to complain of the “holier than thou” attitudes espoused by US media, following negative coverage of his company.
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In two Dutch primary schools, children are learning a gamified version of EV charging. The charging infrastructure specialist EVBox modified a few of their charging stations to be more child-friendly and safe for this purpose.
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As “EV” has occasionally been used to cover both all-electric vehicles as well as plug-in hybrids, a British study has shown that consumers are confused by the two. About one third of the queried people stated that they would not buy a hybrid and claimed range anxiety as being the reason.
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The royal wedding is over, promise, but they saved the best bit for the end. After their final “I do”, Prince Harry took Meghan out for a spin in a classy 1968 Jag that has since been converted to electric power.
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NASA is thinking far ahead and has a project with transport potential on Mars sorted before any passengers have even reached the red planet. Whilst the Tesla Roadster is on its way through space, NASA engineers have come up with the Mars Helicopter that will accompany their rover by 2020.
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Seriously. Driving an electric car makes people happy, a study by York University finds. Commissioned by London cab company LEVC, the researchers monitored brain activity of cabbies sitting in diesel and electric vehicles and compared the results.
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Remember Boeing’s infamous Dreamliner and its burning batteries? Well, its reputation has been repaired and the following clip may elevate the plane into the hall of fame, just because it is in tow of a Tesla Model X.
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Hang in there, urbanites: The issue of congestion will not be solved by electrifying and sharing passenger cars alone and so a new startup is out to make public transport more fun to use.
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British inventor John Dingley has come up with a rather wild mix to create his self-balancing electric unicycle. It unites a Kelly boat motor and a jet intake from an old aircraft and that is not enough.
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Forget about supercars; super submarines are all the latest rage. Aston Martin has just started production of project Neptune that is more imaginative than its name suggests.
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When Elon Musk said on TV that he was working so hard, he sometimes had to crush on a small couch in his factory, Tesla fans had decided to crowdfund a better couch for him to sleep on. Now the story developed into something even bigger.
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In honour of today’s unofficial Star Wars day, E.On in Munich has revealed that the Empire drives with clean energy. A photo has been sent out across the galaxy to prove Darth’s dedication to a long a peaceful future.
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Architect Richard Moreta thinks he has envisioned the “ideal zero-emission transport system” and most cycle commuters may agree. As a plus, he certainly found a great name for it.
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A Tesla driver in the UK has to surrender his driving license for 18 months and perform 100 hours of community service, as well as paying a 1,800 pound fee. The reason was that another driver filmed him on a highway with an activated Autopilot.
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An electric vehicle recently crashed into a mobile-phone shop in China. But inside the car was not a person but a dog. It turned out the vehicle belonged to the neighbouring fruit shop, where a staffer had forgotten to switch off the car.
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China’s BYD has landed a deal with London premier league football club Arsenal as it becomes a new sponsor. The vehicle maker is now the club’s official car and bus partner and will also receive prominent BYD branding opportunities.
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