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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. Electric motorcycles breakout. Automakers are also launching their own carsharing programs (BMW, Daimler, etc.).

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Africa’s EV Road Back to Eden

CleanTechnica EVs

Six electric tricycles were recently delivered to health centres […] The African continent is bearing the brunt of climate change induced disasters. We see it on the news most nights. Here are some of the attempts to decarbonise the transport sector in these emerging economies as chronicled by Afrik21.