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MAY 9, 2010

“I wouldn’t say it has failed yet,” said Doug Suttles, the operating officer for exploration and production for BP, the company that was leasing the oil rig when it exploded April 20. What I would say is what we attempted to do last night didn’t work.”

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Tesla will stop production of the Roadster in 2011. The next ride won't be the Tesla S Sedan, it will be Tesla the stock. Tesla Motors has filed an IPO plan with the SEC to raise $100,000,000 in a public offering. The electric sedan is meant to appear in 2012.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Production is at least three years away. Mitsubishi plans to show a concept plug-in hybrid at the Tokyo Auto Show. Larger and more upmarket than the all-electric iMiev scheduled to be sold in Japan shortly, there no information yet on what flavor hybrid Mitsubishi will employ. Source: autocar.co.uk].

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JUNE 9, 2011

For a while, gas scooters held sway piled high with people and products. As progressive and foresighted as they seem to be on the transportation front, they’ve got huge challenges ahead regarding electricity production. Fifteen years ago Shanghai was a city of diesel busses and bicycles. It had few private cars. But it is an anomaly.

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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. Consumers would be buying now if there were products,” says Gregor Matthies, a Munich-based partner at Bain who specializes in the auto industry. The only problem?

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

It makes lots of sense, given Chinese battery production. Now, using Lithium (a Chinese product without lead!) Now, using Lithium (a Chinese product without lead!), I've long heard rumors of Chinese auto makers developing an electric car. Now Autobloggreen has a report out of China involving BYD. we get a name, F6E, and a photo.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Once the Smyrna Tennessee plant is up and running, in 2012, Nissan foresees production of 150,000 electric cars a year. The Bay Area, or at least Sonoma County, should be on that list, and I'll assume it was an oversight. Game changing. Source: AutoBlogGreen ].

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MARCH 18, 2009

And another two years before production cars begin to roll off an assembly line. Elon Musk has disclosed the intended price of Model S, even if the car itself must spend another week under wraps. According to the Tesla newsletter "the Model S will have an anticipated base price of $57,400.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Nissan applied for a loan to upgrade its Smyrna, Tennessee plant to assemble electric cars and build a new facility for battery production, according to an Automotive News report appearing in Autobloggreen. Nissan and Tesla are both well on the way to receive loans from the federal government to support their electric car manufacturing plans.

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DECEMBER 26, 2007

FHI's President Ikuo Mori foresees the price down below $20,00 by 2012 for this subcompact, as production ramps up for the Lithium battery packs. Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) has issued a press release, according to Green Car Congress , announcing that 2009 rather than 2010 will see the sales of the first 100 electric Subarus in Japan.

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JANUARY 6, 2008

General Motors might not be able to hit its target to have its breakthrough electric-powered car the Chevrolet Volt in production by 2010. GM has already started to build advertising campaigns around the Volt, even though in the best-case scenario it is years away from production.

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DECEMBER 28, 2007

Think says it has battery supply contracts with three companies, and is moving into production. Subaru's snail's pace production plans are far from ambitious. As previous reported, plan is to sell the car (€25,000) and lease the battery. Zebra batteries first. Online marketing and sales. One question raised in the story is how Th!

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APRIL 7, 2011

The Times has story of the consequences of crop production for bio-fuels: higher food prices and tragic irony.last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s largest cassava exporter , went to just one place and almost all for one purpose: to China to make biofuel.It

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MARCH 23, 2007

Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. DaimlerChrysler AG promised a production fuel-cell vehicle by 2004, but couldn't deliver despite spending $1 billion on the technology. But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Just as major and mid-size auto makers are announcing what seem to be real electric cars for 2009-2010, for example here (Subaru) and here (Mitsubishi iMiev), newly formed independents are finding it difficult to get product out. TeslaMotors' delays have received attention in the blogs and mainstream media.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

In the Niger Delta, the pirates in armed speedboats attack tankers and work with militants in the delta's swamplands who steal around 150,000 barrels a day from oil installations or pipelines, around 5 percent of Nigeria's daily production. The poorly equipped government forces are now receiving support from the US Navy.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2007

If the tests turn out as Daimler hopes, the company plans to begin commercial production in 2010, before the end of the pilot. “We Mitsubishi's i-MIEV, an electric city car (using Lithium) about which much has been written (see EVWorlds report from Tokyo ,) is meant to go into production in Japan for Japan in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

That nascent branch of the industry concedes it has virtually no chance of meeting Congressional production mandates that kick in next year.Carlos A. But now, with motorists driving less in the economic downturn, the industry is burdened with excess capacity, and plants are shutting down virtually every week.In

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

But the same report states that "production of an electric car will still start in late 2010; the car will be mass-marketed globally by 2012." Will the worldwide economic downturn cause a general plug-in postponement? According to Business Week , "the company will suspend its current business plan, announced last May."

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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. The NXG and NXR, revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show recently, have a Th!nk nk City-like footprint, 100 mile range and 65 mph top speed.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Challenges that still need to be overcome before mass production is possible for Honda include reducing the amount of metals used for fuel cells, improving hydrogen storage and lower-cost production of hydrogen, according to Fukui. Of course, the current cost of fuel cell cars is estimated at more than 10 times that figure.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Chatanoogan.com reports on a luncheon at which Mark Perry, director of product planning and strategy for Nissan Americas, discussed the automaker's intentions. Nissan is telling Tennesseans that their state will be included in a Fall, 2010 launch of an electric car.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Intending to sell for under $100,000, an initial production run of 15,000 trumpeted in their press release would be most welcome by the market waiting for plug-in cars. It sort of shows the vehicle, appropriately if obnoxiously dubbed ECO-CHIC, they will debut at the Detroit Auto Show.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2007

to be site for electric car production "New Mexico's biggest city will be home to an automobile assembly facility for Tesla Motors' all-electric, four-door, five-passenger sedan that will sell for at least $50,000." "The And GM keeps telling us the batteries aren't ready. AP via the Detroit News Link Albuquerque, N.M.,

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APRIL 3, 2012

The Volt has had to contend with the overblown battery fire incident and the production hiatus. It just might be up to us. Sales of plug-in cars are steady, but not overwhelming. Fisker is delivering the Karma, but not without glitches and its DOE loan is being questioned. Aptera went under. Bright Automotive went under.

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APRIL 2, 2010

is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Greg Cummings, from Abbottsford, B.C., had just gone to bed at the RV park across the bay from the refinery when he heard a loud whoosh and saw the flames. “I I thought it was a terrorist attack,” he said. San Antonio-based Tesoro Corp.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

Commenting on its technological achievements, John Zwerner, GM Advanced Product Engineering, says "we wanted to drive a stake in the ground.as Seventeen years ago GM could imagine, and then produce, an electric car. Check out this 13 minute GM video on the car that became the EV1.

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JUNE 26, 2008

Today, were product available, such an incentive would see consumers lining up for cars they once might have snubbed as range-deficient and over-priced. We need to see policies that will push electric cars and plug-in hybrids with available battery technology.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Prius might be the most perfect white product ever. By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4WD stastion wagon. But these days, there is only one car for white people. One car that defines all that they love: the Toyota Prius.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2008

He says BMW is also working on an electric car but a decision on production is yet to be made. "We We will only bring this [electric car] if it makes sense," he says. "At At the moment we are not really convinced it will work for BMW. But if it makes commercial sense and it makes sense to our customers, then we will do it."

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OCTOBER 10, 2007

Story includes a photo and gives some stats: Lithium batteries, 125 mile range, but no word on whether it's actually to go into production. Unlike many electric prototypes - Nissan's Pivo comes to mind - the G4e looks like it could appear in showrooms today. Cnet's story raises two important questions.

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DECEMBER 3, 2006

But it's not enough to sell a product and make the biggest profits in the history of the world. As long as we have no choice but to buy their product, their power only increases. Almost every American who drives (and for better or worse that's most of us), must pay oil companies for the privilege. And they make a good profit.

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OCTOBER 4, 2007

Unfortunately, it remains in the foreign automakers' interest to sell us their biggest product. The question for us in the USA is whether plans will include cars that meet the peculiar and unique legal requirements which limit the availability of many more fuel-efficient, interesting vehicles. Don't take my word for it.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2006

1 auto maker is accelerating its efforts to meet the challenge by being the first to offer a plug-in hybrid and by expanding its production of biofuel vehicles. (GM) Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said Wednesday that the U.S. needs to reduce dependence on foreign energy and insisted the No.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The 200 Angelenos who get to lease Honda's limited-production show dog will be impressed. It is limo-spacious and drives electric-smooth. It is extremely well-appointed down to the walnut wainscoting and eco-friendly plush fabrics. Honda will be pleased, as it gets greater CARB ZEV credits.

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JANUARY 6, 2008

They couldn't have been in worse shape had they continued even very limited production, and sale, of the EV1. Every automaker wants to continue selling only internal combustion engine cars (hybrids included) because they believe that is the best route toward the greatest profitability in the near term.

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MARCH 5, 2008

Tuesday expressed doubts about the viability of hydrogen fuel cells for mass-market production in the near term and suggested their companies are now betting that electric cars will prove to be a better way to reduce fuel consumption and cut tailpipe emissions on a large scale. Top executives from General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp.

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