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Your favorite gadget just broke, and is no longer under warranty. Should you repair it or replace it? DailyFinance consumer advisor Regina Lewis examines the best options for your ongoing consumer electronics happiness.
General Electric plans to purchase 25,000 battery-powered vehicles during the next five years for its own use and to lease to commercial customers.
Tesla Motors has signed a $60 million contract with Toyota Motor to develop an all-electric version of the popular RAV4 compact sports-utility vehicle, Tesla said Wednesday.
The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission is recalling 470,000 BlackBerry batteries that were installed in refurbished devices because they are counterfeits and could catch fire. The batteries -- CPSC doesn't know where they were manufactured -- were distributed from March 2004 through October...
GM has finally put a sticker price on its much anticipated plug-in electric hybrid. Granted, a hefty federal tax credit will defray the cost, but the Volt carries a premium price. GM's challenge now is convincing consumers the Volt is worth it.
With Honda's president saying the company had "no future" if it didn't make vehicles that emitted less carbon dioxide, the Japanese carmaker is now gearing up to join Toyota, GM and Nissan in the electric-car and plug-in hybrid derby.
To reassure customers who want to purchase Chevrolet's electrically powered Volt, General Motors will offer an extended, 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty on critical components used in the all-new vehicles.
One year after issuing a recall of tens of thousands of computer batteries, Hewlett Packard has expanded the recall to include another 54,000 batteries used in Compaq and HP notebooks, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The lithium-ion batteries can overheat -- creating the risk of...
Traditionally, when you went to purchase a cell phone you had a few features to compare but it all boiled down to the price of the phone, price of the service and ultimately network coverage. This method of evaluating a purchase -- looking at the actual costs -- has been greatly complicated by...
Two start-ups, biofuel maker Codexis and solar-energy firm Solyndra, recently filed, and others are rumored to be doing so, including sexy electric-car company Tesla Motors and smart-grid integrated-technology maker Silver Spring Networks.

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