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BCG study finds conventional automotive technologies have high CO2 reduction potential at lower cost; stiff competition for electric cars

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Assuming the China government remains committed to EVs, BCG expects that these vehicles will represent 7% of new vehicle sales in 2020, supported by car buyers’ enthusiasm for the technology and the country’s high gasoline taxes. Source: BCG. Click to enlarge. The consumer.

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Alabama will be ‘first to mass produce green cars’ says HK Motors

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Los Angeles-based start-up, Hybrid Kinetic Motors (HK Motors) has announced plans to construct a new green-vehicle manufacturing plant in Baldwin County, Alabama in the US. The firm has set an ambitious target of offer a full-range of hybrid vehicles with production set to start by 2013.

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. Electric vehicles components. 505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. Earlier post.) . 2,962,743 to Leyden Energy, Inc.,

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Annual use of an EV should be less than the average cost of $8,000 per year for using a gasoline in many countries including the USA. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. This will be five percent of the nation’s vehicle population. Email Neal. SZ (1) 6753.T

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