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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The Lithium extraction industry is open to more sustainable raw-material extraction.

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How to Electrify Your EV Fleet the Smart Way

EV Connect

Moreover, the private sector is betting big on the future of EVs, rewarding innovative EV startups with investments and spurring the old guard of the auto industry to invest tens of billions of dollars in new electric vehicle models that will put millions of new drivers into EVs each year.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Auto-week ) 5/10/07 "Toyota Motor Corp. By 2020, [Masatami Takimoto, executive vice president in charge of powertrain development] said he expected hybrids to become the standard drivetrain and account for "100 percent" of Toyotas vehicles.He Comstocks Magazine, February, 2006 ) "Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.,

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