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Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

Green Car Congress

The car, intended to be a simple, practical global city car leveraging light-weight engineering, streamlining, and driveline efficiency, is scheduled to be unveiled in November 2015. To address this we are looking at ways to make personal transport as accessible and affordable as possible. City car Fuel Efficiency Personal Transit'

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Tesla Prepping IPO

Revenge of the Electric Car

The person did not give a specific time frame, although IPOs typically take several months. roads by 2015 and low-cost Department of Energy loans for manufacturers. The Roadster, which is built on a Lotus frame, can go from 0 to 60 miles an hour in less than four seconds, making it faster than a Porsche 911 or a Ferrari Spider.

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Meeting the Founder of PMV Electric - India's Electric Micro Car

Plug In India

Went to work for Citibank before starting his entrepreneurial journey in 2015. But PMV, which stands for Personal Mobility Vehicles, will have to work hard to give a very car-like experience to the EaS-E , else it is doomed to meet the same fate as the Nano. We spent an hour chatting up with Kalpit Patel, the co-founder.

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