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Ford Starts EV Test Drives

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company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. The company is already trying out battery-powered vehicles in London, Meier said. “Ford Motor Co. 4 as the U.S. 28 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co.

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Pike Research forecasts worldwide grid energy storage spending to reach $22B by 2021, down from 2010 forecast of $35B

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This means that we will need 3x more battery capacity investments to meet 2020 EV demand. “Contributing to the short-term over-capacity issue is that manufacturers rushed to build out capacity ahead of demand to (a) capture stimulus funding and (b) try to drive scale to reduce cost.

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Hasner’s Florida State Electric Car Tax Break Gets Boost

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The Legislature is taking a step toward giving a Sunshine State boost to the next generation of automobiles: electric-powered cars. An effort led by House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, to give a sales tax exemption to consumers who buy battery-powered, electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids picked up a unanimous endorsement today.

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Hasner’s Florida State Electric Car Tax Break Gets Boost

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The Legislature is taking a step toward giving a Sunshine State boost to the next generation of automobiles: electric-powered cars. An effort led by House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, to give a sales tax exemption to consumers who buy battery-powered, electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids picked up a unanimous endorsement today.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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The researchers, Travis Herya and Vishnu-Baba Sundaresan, call the membrane a “ smart membrane separator ” and define it as “ a programmable ionic conductor that exhibits continuously varying ionic impedance due to an external stimulus and applied in an energy storage device (supercapacitor or RFB).”. Travis Herya and Sundaresan (2016).

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

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Under last year’s stimulus package, nearly $200 million will support Nissan’s introduction of the Leaf by permitting the installation of 13,000 charging stations around cities in Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona and Tennessee in the next year or so. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines.

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Chipping away at the ICE

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For example, when a historic downtown area is undergoing a revitalization, I make sure it’s widely known that EV charging stations bring more tourism to town and provide economic stimulus. When they look at me like I’m nuts, I point to my queen and tell them, “I had to drive this gas car out here because there’s no charging station for my EV.

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