>Based on the Nissan Leaf, the world’s first street-legal electric limousine did not hold its job at the Embassy suites hotel in Nashville, Tennesse for long since the car was listed for sale on eBay with a starting bid of $50,000 and a ‘Buy it now price’ of $57,000.
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Using solar energy or photo-voltaic systems is an environmentally friendly way of producing electricity which also helps reduce the carbon emissions. Car manufacturer Renault is using this technology to come up with the ‘ World’s largest photo-voltaic system in the auto industry.’ This project will ‘hit two birds with one stone’ for Renault. Not only will they use the system for environmentally friendly purposes, the photo-voltaic panel will act as a shield for the company’s cars before they roll out of the premises, to protect them from natural elements, especially hail.

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Toyota is preparing a new sub-compact model that will be based on the Mazda2 for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Manufacturing will take place at Mazda‘s plant in Mexico, which is currently under construction and is scheduled to become operational within the fiscal year ending March 2014.
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Under the hood of the 2014 Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series is the same 6.3-liter V8 that powers the regular SLS, which in this case makes 622 hp and 468 lb-ft or torque. That means this car gets a jump of 40 hp and a loss of about 10 lb-ft of torque, though it is still the most powerful combustion engine in AMG’s lineup. A DCT sever-speed automatic transmission is responsible for the power this Mercedes has.
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Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) promises safer roads and this year, a group of undergraduate students will have the chance to create innovative ways to use the technology.
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According to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), up to 200,000 vehicles might need to be replace as a result of Hurricane Sandy. This figure includes both automaker losses as well as the combined tally of individually owned vehicles. Nissan projects that they lost 6,000 vehicles between their two brands. Although this number doesn’t even come close to the losses from  Hurricane Katrina, it is still devastating.
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Maserati has been teasing everyone with numerous sets of spy photos, but the day has come where they have released official images of the 2013 Quattroporte, which will make its debut at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. Even though exact specifications for this vehicle have not been published, we know that the available powertrains are all new, and were developed in conjuction with Ferrari.
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Volvo is testing out a new fast-charging station that will put charging times under two hours for their C30 model electric car that is available in Europe.
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