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What does it feel like to go 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.9 seconds in an all-eletric Tesla Roadster? CNet's Charles Cooper reports that it is a "pure adrenaline thrill".
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Ontario, Calif. – October 12, 2008

Phoenix Motorcars, a leading developer of zero emission, all-electric trucks and SUVs, today announced that it will be presenting at the 2008 Global Investment Symposium at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, UAE.

EVNow has added a tool that will help you determine the cost of using an electric device. It is useful for devices for which you know the average wattage, such as a light bulb. If you think energy-saving compact florescent bulbs are too costly, wait until you find out the cost to operate an incandescent bulb for a year!

The calculator is freely available to all at www.evnow.org/calc. Enjoy!

I recently ran across an interesting web site with a number of videos and photographs of the Corbin Sparrow. The Sparrow is the ancestor of the NmG, a highway legal electric vehicle produced and sold by Myers Motors. The web site is www.yellowmotors.com, although the page says the address will soon be www.mysparrowev.com. If you are a Sparrow or NmG fan, it is worth a visit!

Sometime last summer I came up with the idea that I'd like to live for a few weeks on only solar cooked food. I'm not sure of the motivation for this other than simply to prove that it can be done. For those that don't already know, I live in Pennsylvania, which isn't exactly the sunshine capital of the world. However, I now have three solar ovens, so when a sunny day comes along, I can cook a lot of food quickly. Here are the rules I've established for myself:

Although Tesla Motors has received most of the attention recently, there's another cool new electric car about to debut in California , and it's surprisingly familiar looking.

Read the entire story at PC Magazine, or view the slide show.