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London Calling: Congestion Charge Recharges Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone, who enacted London's much criticized congestion charge policy in 2003. nk Global views London as a first market when it relaunches the Th!nk Norway's Th!nk nk City in 2008.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

Fleet insights, US. The data is gathered by devices plugged into the HP fleet vehicles. Data Driven Insurance, London. City Driving On-Demand, London. A fleet of Ford Focus Electric vehicles and Ford Fiestas with EcoBoost powertrains is located across London. Dynamic Social Shuttle, New York and London.

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Bring on the EV Trucks

Revenge of the Electric Car

Fleet vehicles are perfect for EVs, since the routes are very predictable and tend to be within 100 miles per day. It’s easy to spec out a battery pack with enough kWh for a given size of truck to hit 60-80-100 miles, whatever the given fleet buyer needs. More electric trucks! I love that this market is blooming.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

Green Car Congress

California, and those states which have signed on to the California ZEV requirements). These—including, for example, an electric version of the T2, the iconic VW van of the late 1960s and 1970s—were mostly test cars and prototype cars, but also small fleets for special purposes. Soeren Hinze.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hourcar by Hymotion, August 2006 (Twin Cities, MN), contact info@hourcar.org Southern California Edison by EnergyCS, August 2006 (Los Angeles County) Manitoba Hydro by EnergyCS, August 2006, then converted by Hymotion, November 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact jeinnes@hydro.mb.ca 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Jim Tech Ltd.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

In the United States, for example, there are more than 49,000 public charging stations , and it is now possible to drive an EV from New York to California using public charging networks. passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050.