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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

Green Car Congress

The ITS study worked with a national sample of households representing a plausible early market for PHEVs—households with a high potential for physically recharging—and enrolled them in a design game. It allows more consumers to buy some electric driving sooner, and thus to experience and form value for electric driving. Ken Kurani.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Andy Grove April 17, 2009: 9:30 AM ET The great electric car race High oil prices, green regs, and better batteries are behind the mad dash to create the ultimate electric automobile. rivals in the dust.

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

Once several thousand people get the opportunity to buy the likes of Nissan’s well made EV, the demand from the early adopters’ friends and family will expand exponentially. “Hybrid vehicles compete with the internal combustion engine. . “Hybrid vehicles compete with the internal combustion engine.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Current consortium members include Accenture, Current Group, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Ventyx. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Smart meters and substations will be integral.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Then Mr. Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker. BYD’s engineering prowess.

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