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		<title>London Olympic Committee: EVs Are Gimmicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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We didn’t want a big fleet of electric vehicles. We’re only just over two years or so away from the games and time is running out to create a viable network. Many of the vehicles will be used for around 18 hours a day. It’s hard graft, and we knew BMW could supply the vehicles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Validates Common Sense: Air Cars Are Hot Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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All the hot air about the MDI air car may experience a sudden cold downdraft. Not that cool breezes questioning its efficiency weren&#8217;t already wafting in the air. But now there&#8217;s a genuine academic study questioning the questionable. The NYTWheels has mined a study by the University of California at Berkeley titled &#8220;The Economic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Birth Watch 172: 3rd Generation Sustainability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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&#8220;In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation,&#8221; goes a famous line in the Great Law of the Iroquois, &#8220;even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine.&#8221; Though TTAC tests the thickness of GM&#8217;s skin on a daily basis, GM is ahead of the seven-generation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EV Mode Creates Crisis Mode For Engine Parts Makers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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For manufacturers of engine timing chains, main bearings or any of the hundreds of unique components for engines and transmissions, EVs like the Nissan Leaf pose an enormous threat. Decades of investment in the manufacturing technologies and IP are potentially rendered irrelevant if the switch to battery-powered EVs progresses at the rate that its optimists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aptera Ouster And Product Delay Confirmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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After we posted our take on the reported ouster of EV startup Aptera&#8217;s founders, Popular Mechanics jumped in to deny the charge. The magazine dutifully reported that Aptera&#8217;s founders had conveniently decided to take a vacation, unquestioningly citing the assertions of Aptera CFO Marques McCammon. But it seems the underlying conflict&#8211; whether to go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadmap To Electrification: Please Have Toll Ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
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Battery electric vehicles are widely seen as the most promising long-term automotive greentech, but they&#8217;re also hardly poised to take over the industry. A host of issues are keeping EVs out of mainstream acceptance, ranging from battery capacity issues to the lack of a charging infrastructure.  For a group of electric transportation-sector businesses though (including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aptera Founders Ousted In EV Startup Rite Of Passage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Wired has some fantastic coverage of Aptera&#8217;s coming-of-age struggles, which have been come to a head since the firm received permission to tap the federal ATVM loan program, the most important rite of passage for boutique EV startups. In short, the auto industry insiders led by Paul Wilbur, formerly of Ford and Chrysler, were delaying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nissan Brings Leaf EV Production To Tennessee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cammy Corrigan</dc:creator>
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Senator Corker, rest easy: the imports have your back. Tennessee-based Saturn may be shutting down, but Nissan is bringing the manufacture of their electric car, the Leaf, to Smyrna, Tennessee. Nissan made the announcement today as Rutherford County commission member voted to approve the funds required for the project. Under the scheme, Nissan will get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask the Best and Brightest: Did Chrysler Seal its Fate by Killing EVs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a backlash a brewing over Chrysler&#8217;s decision to axe its EV and hybrid program. The move makes sense from an business point-of-view; the company doesn&#8217;t have enough money to chase sky pie. Politically, it&#8217;s all kind of nuts. Lest we forget&#8212;and even the normally automotively absent-minded USA Today doesn&#8217;t&#8212;ChryCo trotted-out alt power vehicles to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHTSA: Pedestrian and Cyclists Crash Rates Higher For Hybrids</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/nhtsa-pedestrian-and-cyclists-crash-rates-higher-for-hybrids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/nhtsa-pedestrian-and-cyclists-crash-rates-higher-for-hybrids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An NHTSA report [PDF] on the &#8220;Incidence of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Crashes by Hybrid Electric Passenger Vehicles,&#8221; concludes that hybrid-electrics (HEVs) have a higher incidence rate of pedestrian and bicyclist crashes than do internal combustion-only (ICE) vehicles in certain scenarios. And based on the report&#8217;s conclusions, it looks like the relative silence of hybrids running [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cadillac Confirms Converj</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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According to the Detroit News, the Cadivolt is go! Not that the announcement comes as any huge surprise: when has GM ever invested heavily in a new platform and not built a Cadillac version? On the other hand, when was the last time GM built a $40k Chevrolet? More importantly, where does the Caddy version&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fiat/Chrysler Walk Away From Electrification And Hybrids</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fiatchrysler-walk-away-from-electrification-and-hybrids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fiatchrysler-walk-away-from-electrification-and-hybrids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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As we noted in our rundown of the New New Chrysler&#8217;s powertrain plans, the Pentastar&#8217;s ENVI electrification task force wasn&#8217;t mentioned once during seven hours of presentation. Well, by name anyway. Weirdly though, as the slide above shows, Fiat is making Chrysler the focal point for the alliance&#8217;s hybrid and electric technology development. Wouldn&#8217;t that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Volt Birth Watch 171: Weber Bails</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/volt-birth-watch-171-weber-bails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
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Frank Weber, the man in charge of GM&#8217;s electric vehicle line, will be leaving GM for a senior leadership at the soon-to-be-sold (or not?) Opel. Weber previously worked on Opel&#8217;s development of GM&#8217;s global mid-size (Epsilon II) vehicle line, before becoming the head of GM&#8217;s electric vehicle development program in March 2007. Weber is the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>EV Meets Early Adopter Meets Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ev-meets-early-adopter-meets-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ev-meets-early-adopter-meets-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
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GM-volt.com&#8217;s Lyle Dennis finds out that being one of the first 500 Americans to lease a MINI E has its downsides. Especially at $850/month lease cost. At around 5,000 miles, the troubles begin (OK, continue).
As the car is technically a mule or prototype, it is not production-ready and has had some issues.  A month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With This Picture: Cars Of Future Past Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-cars-of-future-past-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-cars-of-future-past-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3WTP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage]]></category>
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Imagine, for a moment, how different this Curbside Classic would be if Honda actually built this little electric neo-600.
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fisker Delaware Plant To Be A Union Shop</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fisker-delaware-plant-to-be-a-union-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fisker-delaware-plant-to-be-a-union-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union News]]></category>

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It gives me great pride to give UAW Local 435 workers the opportunity to partner with Fisker Automotive to create a greener America by building a plug-in hybrid car that will compete globally
So goes the line from Gary Casteel, the new Union boss for Fisker&#8217;s new Wilmington, Delaware plant at Automotive News [sub]. Why would [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With This Picture: Historical Reva-sionism Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-historical-reva-sionism-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-historical-reva-sionism-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3WTP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Thanks to $7m in state grants and incentives, a $26.5m investment by Bannon Automotive and the promise of $52m in federal loans, Syracuse NY will become the American home of the Reva NXR. The AP (via MSNBC) reports Bannon expects production to reach 15k-20k units per year. But is $25k for 100 miles of charge, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fisker Buying Delaware Kappa Plant</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fisker-buying-delaware-kappa-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/fisker-buying-delaware-kappa-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Fisker&#8217;s first car, the Karma, is being assembled by Valmet in Finland, but Fisker is already looking ahead. Following the Tesla model of offering a second sedan at around half the price of the brand&#8217;s flagship nameplate, Fisker is negotiating the purchase of the former Solstice/Sky plant where it plans on building a $48k &#8220;family-oriented&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deal Of The Day: $42k Off A Tesla Roadster?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/deal-of-the-day-42k-off-a-tesla-roadster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/deal-of-the-day-42k-off-a-tesla-roadster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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That&#8217;s right. Buy a $110,000 Tesla Roadster, and according to the Denver Post, the state of Colorado will give you $42,000 in tax breaks. That&#8217;s 85 percent of the premium over a Lotus Elise. Colorado&#8217;s alt-fuel and zero-emissions tax credit system gives between 50 percent and 85 percent of the premium over a comparable gas-burning [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day: Extension Cords Bad, Home Inspections Good Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/quote-of-the-day-extension-cords-bad-home-inspections-good-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/quote-of-the-day-extension-cords-bad-home-inspections-good-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quote of the Day]]></category>

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Aldo: Hi Mr. Posawatz. I will be buying a Volt and wanted to know if an extension cord could be used to increase the reach for recharging, or if we are going to be limited to the length of the cord that comes with the car. Thanks!
[Chevy Volt Vehicle Line Director] Tony Posawatz: The EVSE [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>EV Success: It&#8217;s The Price Point, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ev-success-its-the-price-point-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ev-success-its-the-price-point-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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Actually, that&#8217;s not the equivocal message we might have expected from a University of Michigan study on electric vehicle (EV) viability [via Green Car Congress]. Instead, the money quote reads:
The data provide strong evidence that a combination of economic and social incentives may be most effective in successfully introducing these vehicles.
The study&#8217;s baseline shows that, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Three-Wheelers Are Cars Too. For Subsidy Purposes.</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/its-official-three-wheelers-are-cars-too-for-subsidy-purposes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/its-official-three-wheelers-are-cars-too-for-subsidy-purposes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Congress has passed legislation qualifying three-wheeled vehicles for federal subsidies by classifying them as advanced technology vehicles. According to Automotive News [sub], the legislation has passed the House and Senate and should be signed by President Obama by week&#8217;s end. The classification is crucial for firms like Aptera to secure the federal Advanced Technology Vehicles [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ask The Best And Brightest: Name Your EV &#8220;Exhaust&#8221; Tune</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-name-your-ev-exhaust-tune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/ask-the-best-and-brightest-name-your-ev-exhaust-tune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask the Best and Brightest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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The rise of electric cars has  pedestrian safety and hearing-impaired rights groups worried about the accident potential of near-silent electric cars. And so the race to aurally differentiate EVs is on. Heinrik Fisker tells the New York Times that his company&#8217;s Karma EV will sound like “a cross between a starship and a Formula One [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Department of Energy in Hot Water Over Electric Vehicle Love</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/department-of-energy-in-hot-water-over-electric-vehicle-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/department-of-energy-in-hot-water-over-electric-vehicle-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Farago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E85]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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Let us begin with the money shot, courtesy BiofuelsDigest. &#8220;If it were up to me, I would put every cent into electric cars.” That would be the US Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Ch, at a  meeting on alternative fuels, according to &#8220;a source present at the meeting.&#8221; As a part of an administration whose [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mitsubishi And Peugeot/Citroen Sitting In A Tree?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/mitsubishi-and-peugeotcitroen-sitting-in-a-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/mitsubishi-and-peugeotcitroen-sitting-in-a-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Niedermeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electric Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Blog]]></category>

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A touching story of auto-industry love may be developing between Mitsubishi and PSA, reports All Cars Electric, citing Wards [sub] and French newspaper reports. It seems the French concern was deeply smitten with Mitsubishi&#8217;s $45k MiEV electric car and pursued the option for Citroen and Peugeot-branded versions. And apparently, the more PSA learned about the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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