Austin, NY likely to see first Chevy Volts

Austin, Texas, and New York will be among the first cities in the U.S. where the Chevy Volt plug-in electric vehicle will hit the road.

General Motors is expected Thursday to announce that a first run of 8,000 cars will be made available in a handful of cities,The Detroit News reported Thursday.

The announcement is expected to come from GM CEO Edward Whitacre, who is set to address the Austin Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

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AMP electric car advances to finals

BLUE ASH - Developers of the all-electric Saturn Sky conversion by AMP Electric Vehicles learned Wednesday that their car will compete in the finals later this month for a share of the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X prize.

AMP's black Saturn is one of eight vehicles to advance to the finals of the global competition. It will compete in a category to inspire development of alternative-fuel vehicles capable of achieving the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon.

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Swiss project brings electric car to Alpine tourism

MEIRINGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - A pair of sturdy goats led 10 cows with regional and national flags tied to horns and bridles up toward the mountains this week at the launch of a new Swiss eco-project.

Behind the animals came a silent line of 60 brightly colored small cars, which then sped off -- equally silently -- toward the nearest Alpine pass.
"I think just one of those cows made more noise than all of us put together," said bemused Swiss tourism official Federico Somarruga, at the wheel of one of the two-seater automobiles.
The occasion was the launch in central Switzerland of a green tourism project, dubbed Alpmobil, to promote the use of battery-driven electric vehicles -- EVs to the cognoscenti -- by summer visitors to the area some 100 km (63 miles) southeast of the Swiss capital Bern.

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