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Tesla delivered ~5,500 Model S worldwide in Q3, more than 1,000 to European customers; non-GAAP profit narrows and GAAP loss widens from Q2

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Tesla introduced its lease-sale hybrid financing product for the Model S through one of the company’s specified banking partners at the beginning of Q2. The company is now producing 550 cars per week. GAAP and non-GAAP reporting. By March 2014, Tesla plans that more than half of Germany should be covered, with complete coverage by mid-2014.

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Partners launch $51M hydrogen fuel cell vehicle and infrastructure project in Europe

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Locations are being sought for three new hydrogen refueling stations in London, one in Aarhus and in Odense (Denmark) and one in Innsbruck (Austria). With a total of 110 FCEVs and 6 new refueling stations, HyFIVE will represent the largest single project of its kind financed by the FCH JU. —The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

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And EV straggler Honda shed a bit more light on its upcoming EVs built on GM’s Ultium battery and powertrain platform. Honda of America sales chief Dave Gardner told reporters one of the electric SUVs will be from the Honda brand, while the other will be an Acura. Honda will offer more details later this year, he said.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." Previous Engadget goes legs-on with Hondas walking-assist devices (with video!) You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Dell Adamo review Is this the Zune HD?

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Pike Research makes 10 electric vehicle predictions for 2013

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Pike Research projects that 3,442 FCVs will ship in 2013 from vendors that include Toyota, Daimler, Hyundai, and Honda. Battery swapping gives way to battery financing. So far, only Renault has designed its vehicle to be compatible with Better Place’s battery swapping technology.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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The two companies have made a series of deals across the world supplying carsfor the electrification programmes of cities and whole countries – Denmark,Israel and Portugal among them. They are placing all their bets on pureelectric vehicles that produce zero emissions at the point of use.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. Honda has probably sold more Civics in a year than the combined total of all 18 of those GM models. If the EV1 was viable (or even close) we would see Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc all with 80 mile cars right now.do you see that?

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