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IEA: Electric vehicles posted strong gains in 2016; 2M now in global parc

Green Car Congress

In 2005, electric cars were still measured in hundreds. The electric car stock shown here is primarily estimated on the basis of cumulative sales since 2005. Paris, for example, has mandated that any electric car is allowed to re-charge at the re-charge stations of its car-sharing program Autolib.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. The big problems now is how to create a battery that can charge rapidly and infrastructure to charge them.

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