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Volvo C30

Volvo has started producing its all-electric C30, and will start shipping cars to fleets (mostly under leases) in Europe by the Summer. Watch our video test drive of the C30 Electric and our interview with Volvo’s President of Special Vehicles. Read more »

GreenRoadGO

GreenRoad’s greener, safer driving technology has gotten another round of investment. The startup, which is backed by Al Gore and Richard Branson’s funds, as well as Benchmark Capital and others, has raised another $13 million and brought on new CEO Jim Heeger. Read more »

TeslaSantanaStore

The exec formerly in charge of Apple’s famously successful in-store experience, is paving a new path for electric vehicle company Tesla Motors. Tesla’s VP of Worldwide Sales and Experience, George Blankenship, shows us around Tesla’s first experiential store on Santana Row in San Jose, Calif. Read more »

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CayenneSHybrid

It may not be the greenest battery-powered car we’ve driven (at between 21 to 25 MPG) but it’s got the performance of a Porsche, but with some nifty green features, like when you’re driving around 80 mph the power kicks off and you’re basically coasting. Read more »

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All hail the off-road electric 2-wheeler! Using basic bicycle parts, a hub motor, and a battery pack, Diggler’s electric scooters can go 20-miles on a charge, and are being used by off-road and on-road enthusiasts to travel locally without pedal-power or a gas engine. Read more »

Green Overdrive Video: Al Unser Jr. Gets ZAPped

While electric vehicle maker ZAP has had its fair share of less-than-stellar press, we took a road trip up to Santa Rosa to check out what the company is actually producing. We found a manual SUV electric taxi, a low-speed Zappy scooter and Al Unser Jr.! Read more »

For the latest episode of our Green Overdrive video show we checked out Jeff McCabe’s awe-inspiring electric porsche. He stripped out 1,700 lbs from the car — from the gear box to the stock lights — before adding in the lithium ion batteries. Read more »

Wrightspeed’s CEO Ian Wright, one of the original founding team at Tesla, shows us the ins and outs of his X1 electric high performance car prototype soon after he passes Tesla’s Roadster on the Laguna Seca racetrack. Read more »

We got a rare opportunity to take the Think City — an all-electric boxy plastic-bodied car that will be available to consumers in the U.S. in 2011 — out for a test drive. It’s made of plastic. And it’s fantastic! Check it out. Read more »

We took (arguably) the most affordable, mainstream, soon-to-be-released all-electric vehicle the Nissan LEAF out for a test drive for this week’s episode of Green Overdrive (where if it’s green we’ll drive it.) Read more »

The guy who’s flying around the track in our latest episode of Green Overdrive makes “the most interesting man in the world,” look rather dull. That would be Tim Collins, 70-year-old investment banker and founder of electric vehicle startup Kleenspeed. Read more »

You might love your Prius but you might love it just a little bit more if you could plug it into an outlet and it got 100 MPG. Enter Green Gears garage, which for several thousand dollars can convert a second-generation Prius into a plug-in hybrid. Read more »

Watch us cruise around in Mitsubishi’s boxy electric iMiev for the latest episode of Green Overdrive. The car has been on the road in Japan for the last year, and will head to the U.S. in 2011. Because if it’s green, we’ll drive it! Read more »

On this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show (where if it’s green, we’ll drive it) I take Brammo’s electric motorcycle out for a spin. The e-bike costs close to $8,000, has a max speed of 60 mph, and a range of 40 miles. Read more »

Green car DIY-ers of the world, unite! In these week’s episode of Green Overdrive we meet up with green car fanatics that have pimped out their gas-guzzlers into gems of sustainability: the Blackbird plug-in, the biofuel burnin’ Eco-Benz (hemp included) and the all-electric eeVee Motors. Read more »

Blogging iPad Keyboard

Prior to the launch of the iPad bloggers started thinking about how convenient the slate might be for blogging. I wouldn’t want to use the iPad as my only blogging tool, but I admit I am finding it more useful than I thought it would be. Read more »

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