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Sales of EVs in UK Plummeted 90% in 2009 Compared to Peak in 2007

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The UK’s Guardian reports that sales of new electric cars in the UK plummeted by nearly 90% in 2009 to 55 units, compared with their peak sales of 397 units in 2007. Nearly half of the electric vehicles sold last year were the tiny G-Wiz car.

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What effect will lower tax credits on Tesla and GM plug-ins have? Twitter poll results

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For a bunch of electric-car owning acolytes, our readers are surprisingly sanguine about the reduction and eventual expiration of plug-in tax credits on electric-car sales. When Congress set up the tax credits in 2007, it scheduled them to.

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Will Biofuels Be Better For Plastics Than For Vehicle Fuel?

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Turn the clock back to 2007--when Congress passed the U.S. A lack of public interest, an inability to develop cellulosic sources, and the rise of viable plug-in electric cars have considerably dampened enthusiasm for.'

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Chalmers team develops structural battery that performs 10x better than previous versions

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The first attempt to make a structural battery was made as early as 2007, but it has so far proven difficult to manufacture batteries with both good electrical and mechanical properties. In the longer term, it is conceivable that electric cars, electric planes and satellites could be designed with and powered by structural batteries.

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Plug-in Hybrid Bills in Congress Scare Auto Makers

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The Senate bill is known as the FREEDOM Act ("Fuel Reduction using Electrons to End Dependence On the Mideast Act of 2007"); the House bill the more prosaic "Plug-in Hybrid Opportunity Act of 2007." Whatever it's called, it's got Toyota in a tizzy.

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Brussels plant kicks off production for the new Audi Q8 e-tron

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AUDI AG has owned the Belgium site since 2007. In 2021, Audi Brussels produced 43,866 all-electric cars. Since May 2022, Audi has been using rail transport on the approximately 1,300-kilometer route, a decision that reduces carbon emissions by around 2,600 tons annually. 2018 saw the birth of the Audi e-tron.

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Nissan Breaks Ground on Li-ion Manufacturing Facility for LEAF Packs in Tennessee; Capacity for 200,000 Packs per Year

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It will be located adjacent to the vehicle assembly plant, which will be retooled to accommodate production of Nissan LEAF and will be capable of producing 150,000 electric cars annually. The battery plant, one of the largest vehicle battery manufacturing plants in North America at 1.3

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