Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

DOT has been conducting research with automotive manufacturers since 2002 in order to assess the feasibility of developing effective crash avoidance systems that utilize vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In general the passenger vehicle industry is also exceedingly cost conscious.As V2V Communications for Safety.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars. Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV 34

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids.

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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41