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Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s Elon Musk said the electric-car maker may form another partnership with Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), as the companies conclude an initial vehicle project that met with mixed results.“If you look out maybe two or three years from now, I would not be surprised if there was a significant deal with Toyota and Tesla,” Musk, Tesla’s chief

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To bring electric cars to the masses, Tesla Motors will use an expanse of desert where wild mustangs still roam for a factory that the company projects will crank out enough batteries to power 500,000 vehicles annually by decade’s end.Tesla chose Nevada as the site for the $5 billion facility, a person familiar with car maker’s plans said WednesdayNevada’s elected

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Last month was a good month for car sales in general, plug-in electrified vehicles (PEVs) in particular, and regarding this latter category, Americans bought their 250,000th.This count includes all road-going U.S. plug-in passenger car sales since 2008 when Tesla’s Roadster was launched, to the present.Early this year, excluding commercial vehicles, we chronicled just over 172,000 PEVs had been sold through

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Sales in the United States of BMW AG electric cars equipped with range extenders jumped in August, inching closer or, depending on whom you ask, even surpassing sales of Tesla Motors Inc. luxury Model S sedan.The continued success of BMW’s BMW, -1.12% i3 model, which sells for about $41,000 in the U.S., could pressure Tesla TSLA, -1.29% and dampen enthusiasm

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An electric car’s main purposes are those of efficiency and reducing reliance on oil. But as cars, they’re also objects ingrained into culture and often bought for emotive reasons, like speed and aesthetics.It’s no surprise that with both plenty of performance and a sleek body style, the Tesla Model S is as loved by diehard gearheads as it is by

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Lots of electric-car news today. Elon Musk hints at a possible second collaboration between Tesla Motors and Toyota, California now has more than 100,000 plug-in cars on its roads, and the Saleen Foursixteen shows exactly what it can do in a new video. All this and more on Green Car Reports.California has hit a plug-in car milestone. There are now

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China continues to expand its footprint over renewable energy markets in emerging economies, with the latest investment in a Polish wind farm project. China-CEE Fund has announced that it will invest €309 million ($399 million US) in a 250 MW wind energy project in Poland. The project will be implemented in two phases. The first phase, expected to be completed

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Carlos Jericho Petilla is the Secretary of Energy for the Philippines. He recently explained that rooftop solar panels are now cheaper than coal there. “As a simple example, the cost of electricity from a coal plant can run up to P5.50 per kilowatt hour, plus P6.50 for distribution and transmission, which amounts to P12.00. If you install solar panels on

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A new advertisement set to run throughout regional-Queensland and -Victoria, as well as on the country’s news station Sky News, prompts viewers to withhold their vote in the upcoming state-elections from parties willing to cut the country’s Renewable Energy Target. Created by the Australian Solar Council, the ad launched on Tuesday and features a young mum looking to purchase solar

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Market research firm IHS has confirmed that there are currently 132 GW worth of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects at various stages of development around the world, with almost half of that residing in the United States and China. However, given China’s recent rhetoric regarding their growing anti-coal stance and their promise to focus on solar development, the country only has

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