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Electric Car Watch #9: Where is the Strom-R3 electric car?

Plug In India

We spoke to EV community member and friend of the channel Mr Zarryl Lobo, who has 30+ years of experience building custom electric golf carts and refurbishing old EVs. They never made it to production and stuck to custom building cars for many years because of low numbers. Ultimately, they had to shut shop.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The governments regulations and policies for things like building electric-car charging stations can be changed more easily here than in places like the U.S. and Korean golf cart maker CT&T Co. Mitsubishi to help Oregon build. Gasgoo.com | ?? | are expected to begin producing jointly this summer.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. I am more reminded of Segway, or that GM thing that Segway helped them build.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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