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Here’s an interesting alternative use for your hybrid electric. John Sweeney, who lives in Harvard, Massachusetts, was one of the many victims of the snow and ice storms in the north east that caused power outages for hundreds of thousands of people a year or so ago. In times of adversity, human innovation takes over.

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West Race Cars, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the premier makers of race cars on the market. Their latest model, made in conjunction with Kleenspeed Technology, is the WX10-T, an all-electric sport racer.

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Remember the movie Tron? Lightcycles were the coolest thing back in the day and everyone dreamed of owning one, riding one, or just had the Atari game to play like they did. Well, if those cycles were to be made today, they’d probably look like the MOTOrepublic Beta.

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The Phylla electric car is solar-powered and capable of going 80mph. The concept prototype was driven by some VIP guests at the Turin Environmental Park recently. It’s a “2+2” seater, which means it can seat two or four people, depending on how much luggage space you’d like.

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A few years ago, Tom Hanks was pushing this company and then it suddenly just went poof. After an appearance on Letterman, a couple of videos on his Myspace page, and a few guest spots in newspapers and magazines, AC Propulsion and Tom Hank’s promotion of it suddenly disappeared.

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Until you sit down and really think about it, charging an electric car from a public charging station seems like a pretty simple concept. Then you start to realize that things like vandalism, theft, billpoints, and other stuff starts to come into play. So saying a public electric vehicle charging station is as easy as plug it in, give it your credit card, and walk away is like saying an ATM is just a machine that you say “gimme money” to and it spits it out.

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We here at Zoomi Life are big fans of ecomodder and their informative, DIY-oriented eco-modifications to cars. They posted a hilarious article about one of their featured writers, Ben Nelson, getting pulled over for speeding in his converted electric Geo Metro.

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Dale Vince, the CEO of Ecotricity, has announced that their electric sports car, which so far has not been given a name (just tagged the “Wind Car”), is ready to name his electric dream vehicle. Back in May of 2008, Dale announced his intention to “build an electric sports car to rival the Tesla.” Ecotricity, the company Vince runs, is a wind energy company in the UK and the announcement for the car was made on Vince’s blog, Zerocarbonista.

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Cree, which was founded in 1996 and began prototyping and testing an innovative 3-wheeled electric called the SAM, went out of business in 2003 due to lack of sales and investors. The vehicles were being tested on Swiss roads almost exclusively by private consumers in Zurich and Basle.

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The Triac is neither a car nor a motorcycle, but sort of a combination. It’s in the same category as the Aptera and other “technically-motorcycles, but really cars” vehicles, with it’s 3-wheeled design, thin body, and light weight.

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