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Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada

Baua Electric

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. According to Japan’s Nikkei , the Japanese automaker is looking at several sites in Canada, including one near its auto factory in Alliston, Ontario.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

If you’re CATL, you can sell in mass quantities to GM and Ford. I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. It’s easier to sell to the light-duty market.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By the time these cars hit the market, General Motors ( GM , Fortune 500 ) will be in production with the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car and Ford ( F , Fortune 500 ) will have its own plug-only compact car. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Now buyers, like the Lamuses, are venturing back.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. Thats less than Ford ( F , Fortune 500 ) ($7 billion at the beginning of April), but more than General Motors ( GM , Fortune 500 ) ($1.3 The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov.

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