GigaOM’s Green Overdrive show has test driven a decent amount of electric cars, but most of them have been around the block or on a closed track. But for the latest episode we wanted to

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For the latest episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we bring you a ride in a Beta version of electric car maker Tesla‘s second car – the Model S. A Beta car is an

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An engineer at solar panel maker Solyndra electrified an old Volvo and has been using it for his daily commute to work, where he designs aspects of Solyndra’s tube-shaped solar panels.

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For the latest episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we test drive an electric folding scooter that can carry a large box (or me!). The company that made the cargo scooter is called

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Tesla has a new inspiration for selling its pioneering electric car: Apple. Last Summer Tesla hired George Blankenship to be in charge of its interactive in-store customer experience.

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Cutting down on the fuel usage of company trucks and fleets could make a major dent in the oil consumption of the U.S. Silicon Valley-based startup Wrightspeed is led by a co-founder of Tesla

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We’re excited to announce that GigaOm has unveiled their 10 Big Ideas winners that will present their innovations at the third annual Green:Net 2011 event on April 21 in San Francisco. The

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For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we bring you a behind-the-scenes look at the testing program for Tesla’s next-generation all-electric sedan, the

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On this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s video show Green Overdrive (where if it’s green we drive it), I take Brammo‘s all-electric motorcycle the Enertia out for a spin.

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For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we take you to the offices of GreenRoad, a startup that has developed a technology to help company drivers reduce crashes

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Introducing the all-electric VW bug! No, you can’t buy it out on the showroom floor — DIY-er and entrepreneur Al Bullock electrified his VW bug and has been driving around Livermore,

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Turning the Bay Area’s restaurant cooking oil into fuel is the goal of the folks at Got Grease. And on this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we go on a

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Here comes the next generation of car sharing: neighbor-to-neighbor, or car sharing 2.0! RelayRides is a young startup that connects people who want to loan out their car to people that want to

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BMW doesn’t have plans to commercially sell its electric Minis, but boy is the car fun to drive. For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we drove an

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Porsche’s Cayenne S Hybrid might not be the greenest car on the road (it gets about 25 MPG), but it can drive on electric power at under 40 MPH and also has a fun no-power coasting mode at

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In one of the most interesting electric vehicle partnerships of 2010, Tesla and Toyota announced last year that they would jointly build an electric RAV4, combining Toyota’s SUV with

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Volkswagen’s got close to two years before it will launch its all-electric Blue-e-motion Golf car, but GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show got a chance to take the car to the streets

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After 6 months and close to 30 shows, GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show is celebrating the coming of 2011 with a year-end wrap. Here’s our year in review for electric vehicles in

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For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive Show, we got a chance to test drive Mercedes fuel cell car, the F-Cell. Mercedes only made 200 of these vehicles and is renting

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About a decade ago Honda developed one of the earliest electric cars, but like many big auto manufacturers it decided to ditch those plans. Now with the return to popularity of the electric car

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For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive video show — where if it’s green we’ll drive it — we hung out with Saul Griffith, entrepreneur,

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There’s only one of the Fiat’s fuel cell hybrid cars in the world — called the Panda because of its cute, boxy frame — but for this week’s Green Overdrive video

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The world’s first 7-passenger electric luxury minivan is coming, and it’s brought to you by start-up AC Propulsion and Taiwan automaker Yulon. For this week’s episode of GigaOM

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If you thought off-road mountain biking was fun, why not try the battery-assisted version. Yep, that would be electric bike off-roading, with big ol’ fat tires, courtesy of Fortune

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Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno sure has a lot of cars and motorcycles down at his garage in Southern California — his collection numbers roughly 200 vehicles. That’s not so

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Electric sports car maker Tesla recently released an upgraded version of its inaugural car the Roadster, dubbed the Roadster 2.5, which has a new front-end design, new wheel spokes, a bigger

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How do you turn a hot rod Porsche into an electric vehicle? According to Jeff McCabe, who made his own homebrew EV Porsche, you first strip off any excess weight until you’ve taken a

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Ian Wright left the electric car maker he helped found — Tesla — to create a company that builds high performance electric and hybrid race car technology. The result? His X1 electric

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Norwegian car maker Think won’t be selling its boxy all-electric, plastic-bodied car the Think City in the U.S. until 2011, but GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show got a rare chance to

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For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive video show we test drive the all-electric Nissan LEAF, which will go on sale starting in December in select cities. With a

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