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Considering renting a Tesla Model S next time you’re in the UK? Well, you might want to reconsider, based on the current going rate. Or maybe just deal with the high price and say that you’re doing it to reduce your carbon emissions, right? The price? $580 a day. With that nice plump sum, though, you do get 200 miles

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Tesla Fever has extended far and wide, winning over critics and everyday enthusiasts alike. The company is rapidly expanding its efforts both in its home market and abroad, but for some of its wealthy fans, that move isn’t happening quite fast enough.Dmitry Grishin is one such enthusiast. The 35-year-old multi-millionaire founder of Russia’s Mail.ru is a big fan of Elon

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The 2015 Nissan Rogue is now in showrooms nationally and its MSRP still begins at the lowest point in the segment. The Nissan Rogue is now in its second-generation and has been setting sales records for months. Now, the 2015 model is entering showrooms around the country and Nissan has announced manufacturer’s suggested retail pricing (MSRP) for the Rogue. As

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This 2009 Subaru WRX STI owner convinces his skeptical wife that this vehicle is the best in any conditions. How did he do it? Chris Good and his wife Maria live near Aspen Colorado where snowfall is measured in feet not inches. Chris is an owner of a stock 2009 Subaru WRX STI and it’s the first Subaru he’s ever

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2015 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV takes on 2014 Australasian Safari with Team Mitsubishi Ralliart Australia. Will it hold up? The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is entering another grueling global rally race, this time in the outback of Australia. This will likely be the plug-in hybrids toughest challenge yet. This Australian rally entry marks the third international off-road rally outing for an

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The first rally-prepared 2015 Subaru WRX STI will make its debut with the Subaru Rally Team Canada. We’ve been wondering why we haven’t seen a rally-prepared 2015 Subaru WRX STI this season. Now, the first 2015 WRX STI Rally car will be making its debut with Rally Team Canada at Rally Defi. We thought the 2015 STI would make its

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There’s an old saying in the biofuels industry: “You can make anything from lignin except money.” But now, a new study may pave the way to challenging that adage. The study from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrates a concept that provides opportunities for the successful conversion of lignin into a variety of renewable fuels, chemicals, and

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Two scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been included in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Research list for the thousands of citations of their work by fellow researchers over the past decade.The Highly Cited Researcher list represents some of the world’s leading scientific minds. Researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated

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Here at RMI we love seeing electricity generated by the sun. And while it’s great to see large homes owned by the likes of Woody Harrelson and Will Ferrell being solar-powered, rooftop solar should be accessible to people across the socio-economic spectrum of the U.S., not just the one percent. But putting solar on all of these different roofs is

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Some Chinese Tesla Model S owners are taking a big road trip using China’s still-nascent charging network. Actually, they will be installing charging stations along the way. This article about it is in Chinese if you happen to read Chinese. Hopeless with Chinese, I stuck it into Google Translate. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make the read much easier. As an example,

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