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

Plug In India

One was the conversion kit by Hyderabad based e-Trio, and the other was Pune based Northway Motorsports. Many of you want to convert your existing petrol/diesel cars into electric cars. Only when a kit provider has successfully got certified can they start selling the kit in the market. What about the original OEM?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. There are also plans to conduct public-road tests of the TOYOTA Plug-in HV in the United States and in Europe. and Europe are still undecided, Takimoto said.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. WTF do they need ANOTHER $10.3B

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