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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Tom McGhie, Financial Mail reports: The political battle for the electric car vote stepped up a gear last week when the Conservative Party pledged that owners of battery-powered cars would be guaranteed an overnight charging point. Source: thisismoney.co.uk

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MAY 17, 2010

VW has released some more information on its electric plans. Sailing" occurs whenever the driver – adopting an anticipatory style of driving - releases the gas pedal, or more apropos: the electric pedal. Look for an e-Golf to be launched in 2013. 93 mile range from a 26.5 kWh lithium battery pack. According to VW's press release: ".the

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

GM recently entered into a 50/50 partnership with Reva, the Indian electric car company, to produce an electric version of the Chevrolet Spark. According to a report in the Business Standard of India, GM plans to sell 4000 electric Sparks in India in 2010. electric car spark electric spark.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Tesla will be producing battery packs for Daimler's electric Smart, reports Ken Basinger in the LA Times blog Up to Speed. The electric Smart is eligible today for $7500 in federal tax credits. Tags: tesla electric smart daimler smart think global. One thousand packs will be delivered this year and next.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Al Gore has probably been presumed to be a long-time booster of electric cars, but it hasn't always been so. Tags: al gore battery electric car. Like many, he couldn't see past the dirty, coal-produced power many plug-ins would utilize, despite the environmental benefits. Now he's sees a EVs a'comin'.

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MAY 27, 2009

A 50-electric car parade took the issue right to the Trade and Industry Department in downtown Oslo. A concrete proposal for a Guarantee Institute for Electric Vehicles was presented to the government. In Norway, the effort to find a means to get financing so Th!nk

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Reva, the Indian electric car company best known for the G-Whiz in England, has signed a deal to bring their new product to Iceland with sales beginning within a year. Electricity is a more renewable resource than ice in Iceland. Tags: mitsubishi imiev iceland reva battery electric car.

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OCTOBER 24, 2007

Joseph White, Wall St Journal Detroit bureau chief, is writing about electric cars again , this time about the majors. Hybrid or All-Electric? Car Makers Take Sides Nissan-Renault continue talking up small all-electric cars. White suggests Honda is lining up with Nissan, seeing a future not in hybrids but rather electric cars.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 7, 2011

The infrastructure, ubiquitous electricity, exists. Consumers, it's often suggested, have rejected plug-in cars because there is no charging infrastructure. No, I've always said, we have a chicken problem. No plug-in cars.

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JULY 17, 2008

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. We could further increase the value and efficiency of a Unified National Grid by helping our struggling auto giants switch to the manufacture of plug-in electric cars. Full speech available here.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 11, 2009

Four hundred fifty electric Minis will hit the road in the next few weeks in California, New York and New Jersey. Ex-EV1 drivers will be among those taking advantage of their first opportunity to get back in an electric car. Ex-EV1 drivers will be among those taking advantage of their first opportunity to get back in an electric car.

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JANUARY 29, 2009

There is an existing market for electric vehicles, especially among those who can afford the extra cost of limited-production new technology vehicles. For years BMW disparaged electric cars, and poured money into liquid hydrogen ICE vehicles and promoted them ad nauseum. Yet it took BMW less than one year to make an electric car.

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

I've long heard rumors of Chinese auto makers developing an electric car. Seems to me the Chinese ought to capture the American market for electric cars before the majors get off the dime. Tags: electric car china. It makes lots of sense, given Chinese battery production. Now, using Lithium (a Chinese product without lead!)

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MARCH 21, 2008

Subaru has brought some R1e electric mini-cars to NY. They have a program with Tokyo Electric Power Company that has been testing vehicles in Japan since 2006. Tags: subaru r1e battery electric car. Now, they're at the NY Auto Show, and two of them are joining the New York Power Authority fleet. Much like the Th!nk

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JANUARY 29, 2009

As a part of the new government economic stimulus plan, Norway will be getting a "forest" of charging stations for electric vehicles. Tags: norway think global charge point battery electric car charge station. The Scandinavian nation, which is home to Th!nk, nk, today has about 2500 EVs on the road.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

An Agence France Presse report has produced a small flurry of articles this past week, here and here , for example, that has a German company developing Lithium batteries that would be suitable for electric cars. Of late, the French, Irish and Finns are creating feebate structures that could push electric cars.

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APRIL 20, 2007

In one, electric drive is seen as inevitable. In the other electricity isn't even mentioned. Tags: GM electric car plug-in hybrid electricity. An incredible pair of stories in the Detroit news here and here. Thanks for the tip to Felix Kramer of CalCars.

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JULY 19, 2007

Simply put, the study found what advocates of electric transportation have long held to be true: as regards greenhouse gases and pollution generally speaking, the worst electricity is still better than petroleum. The use of electricity is an important attribute of PHEVs. billion metric tons.

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APRIL 1, 2008

He briefly recaps the problems with ethanol and hydrogen and concludes: Of the alternative transportation options, electric vehicles coupled with increased use of renewables and other clean sources of energy will be the most efficient way to reduce pollution and eliminate dependence on foreign oil. Read the entire article here.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 11, 2007

My first electric car was a Think City, produced when the company was owned by Ford. By then, every other maker of a ZEV Mandated electric car had leased all their cars and were plotting their destruction rather than making any more to meet the demand. The little car demonstrated to me that electric vehicles were ready for prime time.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tags: GM ev1 regenerative breaking battery electric car.

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MARCH 9, 2008

Touchstone Energy Cooperatives has made an ad touting its preparedness to deliver electricity whatever needs it in the future. Hattip to Domenick Yoney - AutoblogGreen.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 1, 2007

The French Post Office, La Poste, is seeking to place 10,000 electric vehicles in service in the next five years. There has never been such a big order (for electric vehicles) in the world," said French Industry Minister Francois Loos in an interview with AFP, referring to the plans for 10,000 electric vehicles. Full story.

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DECEMBER 21, 2007

Electric cars, including many Th!nk Electric car advocates know that nothing can take a bigger bite out of greenhouse gas emissions than switching from internal combustion to electric drive. click on the photo below to see more photos thanks to ElBil Norge , click on the video image to see Youtube video.)

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MAY 29, 2008

Next, Friedman hopes, new leadership will choose the right policy, one that leads us to electric cars. Ultimately, we need to move our entire fleet to plug-in electric cars. Tags: thomas friedman barack obama battery electric car plug-in car. Obama was not blown away by his opposition to the gas holiday.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2007

London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. The policy, which exempts electric cars from hefty daily taxation, is resulting in increasingly significant vehicle choices for English consumers. Daimler Smart ForTwo electric trials are set to begin in London, according to the Financial Times.

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DECEMBER 24, 2007

Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first of 100 electric Smart ForTwos to fleet customers in the UK. Coventry City Council will be using the electric Smart in its fleet. Smart Car of America has the most complete report, straight from Daimler, with most of the relevant stats. The energy storage is a sodium nickel chloride battery.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Tags: mitsubishi jim motavalli fuel cell imiev hydrogen battery electric car.

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JULY 17, 2007

Thomson Financial reports in Forbes that General Motors Corp unit Opel plans to bring out an all-electric car at the end of 2010. GM's European chief Carl-Peter Forster is said to mention the EV in an excerpt from tomorrow's Auto Motor Sport magazine.

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MARCH 4, 2007

Phoenix Motor Cars in California has been working with lithium battery manufacturers AltairNano to come out with a new all-electric car. Surf around his site EVFinder.com , and you just might find yourself an electric vehicle. Tags: electric cars phoenix motor cars evfinder.com. The car had a coming out in LA last week.

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APRIL 25, 2007

An excellent piece on electric cars by Steven Wickens in the Toronto Star here. Let's not forget, as GM hypes the Volt , 1000 140-range NiMH EV1 electric cars rot in the Arizona sun. Let's not forget, as GM hypes the Volt , 1000 140-range NiMH EV1 electric cars rot in the Arizona sun. Tags: electric car ev1 RAV4 EV.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Khalid Abdullah Al Bu Ainnain, Chairman of Baynuna , told Gulf News in an interview that the group has signed a deal with a French company to export 10,000 electric cars. "We We are cooperating with the giant French group Dassault to produce an electric car which can operate on clean power with a speed of 160 km/h," he said.

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DECEMBER 7, 2007

As reported on the Green Car Congress website , electric vehicles would receive 5 times the rebate available to the best currently conceivable ICE vehicle. An electric car would receive €5000 (over $7300.) French automakers probably have put more electrics on the road than all others combined, although they were limited to fleets.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

Every electric car advocate is asked the same question every day: Are EVs really cleaner, greener, better for the environment? percent of our nation's electricity is generated by the burning of coal. percent of our nation's electricity is generated by the burning of coal. The long tailpipe, and all that.

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

nk City electric car has rolled off its Norwegian assemblyline. Biggest piece of news: According to [CEO Jan Olaf] Willums, General Electric (GE) is now an investor in Think and the company struck a deal with GE to collaborate on battery technology. It wouldn't be the first time GE has dabbled in electric cars.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 6, 2008

Tags: rechargeit.org google.org battery electric car plug-in car.

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JULY 27, 2007

There are some lessons we need to learn as we are inundated with adverts about "clean coal," if we are not to get snookered as enviros did over the electric car. emphasis added] The glee with which the automakers tracked down the trial electric cars that they had produced, and crushed the cars into small cubes, must have been palpable.

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