cheap gasoline Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:59:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How NOT to Kill the Electric Car – Drop Gas Prices https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-not-to-kill-the-electric-car-drop-gas-prices-20150119/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-not-to-kill-the-electric-car-drop-gas-prices-20150119/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:42:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=51377 Especially for commuters, plummeting gasoline prices are common and welcome knowledge, but will it kill the electric car? For some analysts, opponents, and plain old haters, falling gasoline prices would have to be the “killing blow” to the electric car. In their minds, the only reason to buy an electric car, or hybrid, for that […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-not-to-kill-the-electric-car-drop-gas-prices-20150119/feed/ 1 51377 WrightSpeed X1 – The First Retired Electric Sportscar https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-the-first-retired-electric-sportscar-20081222/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wrightspeed-x1-the-first-retired-electric-sportscar-20081222/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:38:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1419 Remember Ian Wright? Right, he's the inventor and producer of Wrightspeed X1, the first most famous electric sportscar. This summer his car was on top of all the newspapers, environmental and auto blogs. Now, the same famous sportscar with plans to be commercialized and developed in the coming years, is being retired and put on the shelf. Why is that happening?

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