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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

The Truth About Cars

.& As things currently stand, the European Union has plotted banning the sale of new combustion-engine cars by 2030. Despite Europe having adopted battery electric vehicles far more quickly than North America, the market is still confronting a lot of the same problems. .& I think it could be delayed."

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Multi-nation survey reports consumers want electric cars. Now.

Plugs and Cars

There are no cars for sale. A Business Week blog reports on the survey by the Munich based consultants Bain & Co. Consumers would be buying now if there were products,” says Gregor Matthies, a Munich-based partner at Bain who specializes in the auto industry. battery electric car. Tags: BMW bain and Co.

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Self-Generation Nation – Solar Sales Soar Amid Escalating Energy Costs

My Energi

Self-Generation Nation – Solar Sales Soar Amid Escalating Energy Costs. What’s more, with a hefty associated price tag, is it possible to further maximise efficiencies and reduce the payback on your investment. Over the past decade, the European energy marketplace has continued to experience increasing volatility. With almost 1.1

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Dealing with Petroleum Addiction, British Style

Plugs and Cars

But now the central government, long hostile to alternative-fueled vehicles (it has cracked down on vegetable-oil fueled cars), "decided to buy a G-Wiz and carry out its own crash test after becoming concerned by the rapid growth in sales." The world's major auto manufacturers have steadfastly refused to build electric cars.

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This Volvo and Harris Poll Study investigates the state of EVs in America

Current EV

The EV sector includes HEVs (Hybrid Electric Vehicles), PHEVs (Plug-In Electric Vehicles), and BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles). 4 Trying it for 30 days before buying it (40%). Volvo believes that the future is electric and its Electrification Commitment states that by 2025, 50% of Volvo Cars’ sales volume will be fully electric.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles. Powered by Share » Digg this Add to del.icio.us Stumble It!

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

As one of the GM employees at the event told me, “ We can make each car great, we don’t have to worry about cannibalizing sales from a sister vehicle. ”. GM sees energy storage density as one of the attractive attributes of hydrogen, compared to a straight battery-electric solution. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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