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How the EV Charging Industry Is Emerging and Evolving

EV Connect

After 150 years without much happening around electric vehicles, Tesla set off a spark in 2006 that triggered a chain reaction of rapid growth and change. Newer, direct-current, fast-charging technology now makes it possible to recharge 60- to 80-miles worth of driving in 20 minutes. Most of the time, evolution moves slowly.

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GM to Launch?

Plug In Partners

GM Concept Car T here has been a rumor that General Motors might have a plug-in to show at the North American International Car Show in Detroit this coming January. GM likely to launch new plug-in hybrid Reuters Nov 10, 2006 DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. GM, which is trying to recover from a $10.6

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The 60,000 Volt Question

Plug In Partners

23, 2007 -- General Motors Corp. The car, expected to run 40 miles without recharging, will cost less than $30,000. "If Selling 60,000 hybrids would be a coup for GM, which lost nearly $2 billion in 2006. could reportedly produce up to 60,000 Volt electric cars in 2010 , its first anticipated year on the market.

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Toyota "Looking"

Plug In Partners

H ere is big announcement for Plug-In fans Toyota looking at Plug-in Hybrids Los Angeles Times June 20, 2006 By JOHN O'DELL Toyota Motor Corp. The Japanese automaker , poised to overtake General Motors Corp.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Then the students replaced the Explorer's big gasoline engine with a fuel-sipper taken from a General Motors Corp.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#.

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