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GM Ventures invests in nano-structured steel alloys company NanoSteel; potential for light-weighting

Green Car Congress

General Motors Ventures LLC has invested in NanoSteel Company, a developer of proprietary nano-structured steel material. GM Ventures joined lead shareholders EnerTech Capital and Fairhaven Capital Partners and five existing investors to complete the Series C financing round. Terms of the GM Ventures investment were not disclosed.

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Yes, Automakers Stand To Benefit From Installing Public EV Charging Stations

EV Connect

will need as many as 235,000 fast EV chargers to meet demand — up from about 47,000 chargers that are available today. This internationally recognized initiative is designed to support the creation of EV charging software that can communicate across different vendors and platforms.

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

A handful of bidirectional-capable EVs are available today, and automakers are quickly implementing the technology. More and more renewable energy is being added to the grid, but the distribution system has to be designed for the peaks. When you mix EVs and renewable generation, the peaks are going to get even bigger.

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Road Test: 2024 Kia EV6 GT-Line RWD

Clean Fleet Report

The EV6 designers made the body as slippery as possible, which allowed our test car to achieve an excellent efficiency of 3.8 This situation’s roots are the high interest rates used to control inflation in the US, which has affected anything that needs financing. Our EV6 charged its 77.4 Light Short Range) – ~3.4

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. This car was bought in or designed for america! Neutral BloodyHell @ Apr 19th 2009 9:01PM Oi!

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The hybrid models available today use lead-acid ornickel-metal hydride batteries that are are proven, reliable, and fairlycheap, but their limited storage capacity means that the cars’ driving rangeusing electricity alone is short. So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor. Post to Fark Post to Yahoo!

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Most charge points available today take much longer to re-energize batteries than it does to fill a gas-powered cars tank. Perhaps more importantly, quickly "pouring" electricity into many of the batteries available today may stress the very expensive component and shorten their useful lifetime.