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California Startup Aurica Motors Trying to Keep NUMMI Plant Open for Manufacturing Electric Cars, Battery Swap System

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Under the proposed plan, the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California would be converted into the manufacturing facility for the Aurica Motors E-Car, an all-electric vehicle, as well as Aurica’s proposed PEP (Power Exchange Package) battery swap system. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system.

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Eaton to Support Project to Develop and Deploy Medium-Duty Plug-in Hybrid Systems; Stimulus Funding to Support Largest Commercial PHEV Demonstration to Date

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Ford Motor Company and Southern California Edison, in the deployment of plug-in hybrid electric commercial vehicles to more than 50 utility and municipal fleets nationwide. The entire system can be recharged by plugging it into a standard 120- or 240-volt electrical outlet.

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ZAP, Zhejiang Jonway Partner to Target China and Export EV Markets

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ZAP will perform research and development of the core technology in Santa Rosa, California and license the technology for this partnership. ZAP hopes to leverage a stimulus from the government for plug-in forms of transportation. million vehicles in 2009, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

Several thousand Leafs made in Japan will be delivered to metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, Washington state, Oregon and Tennessee. When the president of the California Public Utilities Commission, Michael R. Price and tax incentives need to be worked out. Locations must be found for charging stations.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

California Is the Place You Want To Be. Just as we also see California for what it is – the most energy efficient state in the the USA and the only logical model for the rest of the country to follow. Nobody was recharging any cell phones or laptops during the 1976 bicentennial year. (I How powerful will that make you?

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Most electric-car makers are working under the assumption that once the battery runs down, cars will recharge at home rather than on the road – limiting the cars to short distances. The firm eTec got $100 million in funding from the US Department of Energy through the stimulus bill. “That’s going to be tough.&#. .

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

CDM Baby, CDM Ruminations on Vegas and NASCAR California Dreamin' ► February (16) Car Sharing and Saving in a Tough Economy Throwing down the gauntlet to Secretary Clinton Weather Does Not Equal Climate The Hub Lab Seeks Revolutionary New Energy Science. The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. SZ (1) 6753.T

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