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Reports: GM to offer all-electric city car in US

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The Detroit News reported that GM will announce on Wednesday it will introduce a full battery-electric city car in the US. Green Car Reports fleshed that basic item out with additional details: The vehicle is the Chevrolet Spark EV, unveiled as the Chevrolet Beat EV, in India. Earlier post.). ( Earlier post.). (In Earlier post.).

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REVA Electric Vehicles to be renamed

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It’s the dawning of a new era for India’s REVA Electric Car Company with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd to acquire a majority stake in the company and rename it as Mahindra REVA Electric Vehicle Co Ltd. per cent equity in Mahindra REVA. The agreement sees Mahindra & Mahindra own 55.2

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Reva: A little company with big ambitions. The Green Piece

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Slow, clunky, even potentially “life-threatening” – these are just a handful of the insults that have been thrown the way of electric car maker REVA and particularly its G-Wiz model. According to Chetan Maini, the man behind the company, the factory represents the first mass production of a green car. Leaders of the pack.

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REVA to develop electric car market in Iceland

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It’s not just Mum who has gone to Iceland… it is electric cars too, with the REVA Electric Car Company signing an agreement with Northern Lights Energy (NLE) to jointly develop the market in Iceland. The NXR is a three-door, four-seat family hatchback design for urban driving. It has a top speed of 65mph and a range of 99 miles per charge.

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REVA to unveil electric cars in Frankfurt

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It’s not just the big name manufacturers lining up new concepts for the Frankfurt International Motor Show – the Reva Electric Car Company (REVA) will also be getting in on the act. The company plans to unveil two new electric cars at the show which kicks off next week.

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GM scrap plans to build electric Spark with Reva

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General Motors looks set to shelve plans to build an electric version of its Spark model with Indian car firm Reva after the latter sold a majority share of its company to Mahindra & Mahindra (see story). Tags: Chevrolet REVA electric GM Mahindra & Mahindra spark.

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Columbia moves into green car era

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Further proof, if it were needed, that green cars are a truly global phenomenon, came when engineers in Bucaramanga presented Columbia’s first electric car to a proud audience last weekend. Tags: Green cars Latest news Colombia Columbia Lexion Salamandra. It has a 15 horsepower engine and can achieve speeds of 65km/h.