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Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
a provider of lithium-ion battery cells, modules and systems ( earlier post ), announced $125 million in new funding from a combination of private equity investment and support from China. As part of its plans, Boston-Power is establishing an R&D and EV battery engineering facility in China. Boston-Power, Inc., Reorganizing.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 14, 2009
The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Tags: Batteries. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
Plugs and Cars
JUNE 4, 2009
I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. In addition to the California funds there is federal stimulus money, $41 million by mid-April, being doled out to their projects, many of zero environmental benefit. Here's my June column. The trajectory remains clear, and the pace has quickened.
Plugs and Cars
APRIL 24, 2009
I write a monthly column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. And these days a billion dollars is barely a rounding error in the money going to prop up the American auto industry. Tags: byd tianjin-qingyan electric charging infrastructure battery electric car. Here's my April column.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. The car came straight to Omaha from the Detroit auto show. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said.
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