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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

Women may soon become the leaders in EV purchasing. She’s also been part of a decisive minority when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) purchases. She’s also been part of a decisive minority when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) purchases. Amy Sinclair speaks to friend about driving electric.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. But what about plug-in hybrids?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

If you don't include bathrooms and buying salty snack foods and sugary sodas and lottery tickets, your desktop can be as little as eight or ten minutes, whereas you may spend 30 or 40 minutes every 200, 250 miles in your Tesla. Now it's much simpler, but if you buy Apple stuff, it all works together. But what about plug-in hybrids?

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles. My Web del.icio.us My Web del.icio.us

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Toyota Concerned About Market Viability of Plug-ins, Sees Clear Path to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology in 2015

Green Car Congress

Prius best embodies Toyota’s philosophy on advanced vehicle technology—for vehicles to become true solutions to our climate change and environmental challenges, they must be mass market solutions. It is not enough to build niche vehicles that only a few can afford to buy or fulfill only a small subset of customer needs.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct.

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