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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

2021 Is Here: Here Are the Top 10 Electric Car Companies. Picking the Top 10 electric car makers now involves making some choices as the number of vehicles available increases. Volkswagen ID4 10,685. The Model S is the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S. Tesla Model 3 80,681. Chevrolet Bolt 22,799.

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EcoMotors Names Donald Runkle CEO; Power Density as the Holy Grail

Green Car Congress

EcoMotors was founded in 2008 by Prof. Peter Hofbauer, who, during a 20-year tenure at Volkswagen AG, conceived, developed and brought into mass production VW’s first diesel engine. At Volkswagen, he spent nine years as head of Advanced Propulsion System Research, followed by nine years as head of Worldwide Powertrain Development.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. READ MORE: Every electric ute and pick-up coming soon! READ MORE: Every new electric car coming to Australia in 2022. Cupra Formentor PHEV – mid-sized crossover will come with a Volkswagen 1.4-litre

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Bosch Investing 400M Annually on Powertrain Electrification; Anticipates EVs and PHEVs to Gain 3% Global Market Share by 2020

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Bosch anticipates that electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles will take almost a 3% share of the global new car market in 2020. Work is underway to prepare series production of power electronics components in Reutlingen and of electric motors in Hildesheim. BMW is the first customer of the joint venture, which was set up in 2008.

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VW Jumps on the Bandwagon

Plug In Partners

Here's the story from Motor Trend : VW jumping on plug-in hybrid bandwagon with TwinDrive system Nate Martinez June 26 2008 Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn announced today that pre-production testing of the automaker's plug-in hybrid electric system, dubbed TwinDrive, is underway with the full support of the German government.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! More on Electric Cars: It’s On!

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BYD to supply batteries to major automaker

Green Cars News

Due to professional secrecy, the name of the Chinese manufacturer has not been revealed but it marks a significant breakthrough for BYD, which is 10 per cent owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway and sold 170,000 vehicles in 2008 with target sales of 400,000 this time around.

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