Revenge of the Electric Car

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Tesla to stop Roadster production

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As Tesla files for its IPO, the company reveals that it will stop production of the Roadster — and will focus on the Model S. From the article: “A reading of the fine print by Wired’s Autopia blog uncovers some disturbing product-planning news. Production begins mid-March. By Jack Gruber, USAT.

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GM’s assembly line delivers bouncing baby Volt

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Chris Paine and the Revenge crew (Sean, Craig, Jessie, and Jessica) are proud to say that they are among the first film crews ever to professionally film mass production of an EV. (Of Tags: Film News Production Diary Production News. Of course, this is mostly because no one has made them in so long.) One fine beauty.

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REVENGE Director Gallivants Across Europe

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Leaving the producers and editors to fend for themselves for a few days during post-production, Chris Paine is headed to Europe for some important events in the EV sphere. Tags: Film News Production News. He’ll be participating in another electric car rally, then filming the grand opening of the new Danish Tesla dealership.

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Aptera delays 2e until 2010

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Big changes at Aptera … more details ( plus official press release ) after the jump: Officially Official: Aptera production pushed back to 2010. Officially Official: Aptera production pushed back to 2010. “Aptera’s production and delivery will be tied directly to funding,&# said Wilbur.

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Talking with Thomas Friedman

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Instead, Tom proposes that countries create unilateral incentive programs that charge CO2 producers, and credit entrepreneurs who create solutions to reducing and eliminating CO2 in energy production. For more about Tom’s book, read : < [link] > Tags: Production Diary Renewable Energy Thomas Friedman.

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It’s Happening

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New production electric cars are being delivered at a rate of 100 per month. Back in 1999, when we were all a twitter about Y2K, there were about 5,000 production EVs on California roads with a few dozen more in both Arizona and Georgia. It’s happening. I think it’ll happen some time around 2022, give or take.

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Stan Ovshinsky’s New Project

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They have a small staff and are testing the product in Oakland County. Tags: Production News Bob Stempel Stan Ovshinsky. He started a new company, Ovshinsky Innovations LLC. He is working with Stempel again as a partner on the solar panels.

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