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Electric Car Watch #12: The sad state of Electric Car conversions in India

Plug In India

Some wanted to convert a Maruti Dzire, some an Audi A4, some an Hyundai i20, and some a Tata Nano. So if you have an Audi A4 or Hyundai i20 or a Tata Nano, you are out of luck. Maybe the ICE car auto industry or BIG OIL is behind this, or maybe this is the typical disease that ails all bureaucracies: the fear of change.

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VW Chief Executive Says Company Will Introduce EVs Based on the Up! New Small Family in 2013; Cautions Against Electro-Hype

Green Car Congress

With electromobility, the automobile industry faces a fundamental technological upheaval.Our path leads away from oil, to emission-free mobility, and the electric car plays a key role.CO The perspective of rising oil prices is a turboboost for a change in customer behavior, he said. 2 -neutral fuels play another key role.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The hundreds of thousands of new cars being added every year to roads in China could further damage already shaky air quality if they are oil-based vehicles. China auto parts firms face. Chengdu Auto to be Chinas No.1. Gasgoo.com | ?? | Great Wall Motor Co., Bridgestone to lift China tire.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

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The big car companies and oil companies are scared and are using every available tactic to slow down the growth of EVs. There was an article in Evannex , i n which a respected auto journalist, Jim Motavalli, pointed out the huge contrast in anti- and pro-EV comments. All of this definitely feels orchestrated.

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Electric Car Watch #4: Toyota is the new Kodak

Plug In India

The entire auto industry has given up on investing in Hydrogen cars. Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi who initially tried to play the H2 game, but now are totally anti-Hydrogen and are investing in battery electric cars. We have control over it, unlike oil production where we are dependent on foreign governments.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. GM Press Release ). Bloomberg ). Reuters ).

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