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Eltek Valere Awarded Battery Charger Contract for THINK City

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Norway-based Eltek Valere will deliver battery chargers to THINK City. In addition to the contract with THINK, we expect to gradually develop business with other customers within this segment. The THINK City is being produced in Valmet, Finland, and now is ready for orders. EV Powercharger 3000 Quick Specs.

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US DOE progress report says 1M plug-ins by 2015 ambitious but achievable; not likely to be constrained by production capacity

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Think City EV. Estimated US supply of PEVs from 2011-2015.

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Norwegian Investors Rally to Revived Think Electric Car

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The Aftenposten reports (in English) on the success Jan Olaf Willums is having at the helm of the revived Think Global. My first electric car was a Think City, produced when the company was owned by Ford. My first electric car was a Think City, produced when the company was owned by Ford. When California Th!nk

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President Obama Awards $2.3B for Tax Credits for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs; GE Gets Largest Battery-related Award

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At full capacity the plant could produce approximately 10 million cells capable of generating 900 megawatt-hours of energy per year—the equivalent of the battery power required for 45,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with an 80-mile range or enough energy to support 1,000 GE Evolution Series hybrid locomotives.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

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A few items before I head out to Black Rock City for two weeks. Although Black Rock City probably has the worst air in the west during its brief annual existence, it is where I had my first electric transport epiphany. Their Rechargeit.org campaign really makes the connections between renewable power and plug-in cars.

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Ener1 to Take 31% Stake in EV Maker Think Global; Think City Production Moves to Valmet in Finland

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is the parent company of EnerDel, a leading manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion automotive battery systems based in Indianapolis and an existing supplier to Think. million in debt for convertible preferred shares of Think, effectively transferring the 10% equity stake held by Ener1 Group to Ener1, Inc. Ener1, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Are You Plugged In?

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Are You Plugged In? Some of the first plug-in electric passenger vehicles are slated to roll onto U.S. How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. By Mara Lemos Stein.

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