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General Motors India And REVA Form Partnership To Develop Electric Vehicles for Indian Market

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The new REVA NXG introduced at IAA, due for production in 2011, features a Li-ion phosphate pack. General Motors India and Reva Electric Car Company (REVA) have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop electric vehicles for the Indian market. Click to enlarge. Nick Reilly, President of GM International Operations.

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Reva: A little company with big ambitions. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Slow, clunky, even potentially “life-threatening” – these are just a handful of the insults that have been thrown the way of electric car maker REVA and particularly its G-Wiz model. It will allow REVA to boast one of the lowest dirt-to-dust carbon footprints in the automotive world. Leaders of the pack.

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BaaS: Improving the EV Experience through Battery Swapping

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  As we have mentioned in previous articles, the cost of EV batteries is linked to the higher price of EVs. The cost of an electric car’s battery is around 30 to 40% of the total vehicle cost. Though the companies could bring drastic improvements in the range and charging time, the cost of the battery is still a problem.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

Cars That Think

First, he confirmed that showers were a big part of water usage for a typical household, and that no such device was already on the market. Instead, he focused on expanding a burgeoning small business that he was also passionate about—3-D printing prototypes and various parts for hardware companies.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

It was braving through inheriting the loss-making Reva while Tata Motors just had a few R&D concepts of the Vista and Nano electric. Under the UniEVersal mission, the ‘One Tata’ approach bore fruit rapidly, as other companies under the group played their critical part in this journey.

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Driving the Tata Tiago.ev electric car from Mumbai to Pune - A Test Report

Plug In India

Our 165 kilometer journey to Pune is with this Tiago.ev, which has a 24 kilowatt hour battery pack out of which 22.1 T hat is the the sad part about this journey. These are lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries cells so they have no issues charging up to 100%. You may also h ave a faulty battery pack, cells can go weak.

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Its first model, the Tesla Roadster, was the first production car to use lithium-ion batteries and was the first electric vehicle with a range greater than 200miles. REVA: An Indian company that markets the G-Wiz in the UK. Here are some other important names that may yet have an impact in the green car race….