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Elektromotive to make breakthrough in Saudi Arabia

Green Cars News

Saudi Arabia is probably the last place you’d expect to see a concerted shift towards emission free motoring - after all, the Kingdom is the world’s leading oil producer and exporter. Understandably, Elektromotive’s managing director Calvey Taylor-Haw is excited about the deal.

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Energizing America

Plug In Partners

He can do so by setting forth a program for energy security that will play against type for a man from the "Oil Patch," by charting a course for setting America free of its dependence on oil. On the one hand, since we consume far more oil than is available here at home, we are obliged to import most of what we need from abroad.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

Cars That Think

billion in new investment cash, and 65-percent owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, saw its stock surge up to 47 percent on news of the first deliveries. The result is class-best mileage of 131 mpge, or the electric equivalent of one gallon of gasoline. The now-public company, flush with $4.5 But engineers expect a 0.21

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