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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. I asked her about start-ups that she has liked, She talked of Bolt, which is setting up charging stations for two wheelers using 15 A plug points. The original idea was three wheeler rickshaw battery swapping. 35 to 40% of the vehicle cost is battery. It weighs 24 kg.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable,” the task force noted in its recent assessment of GM’s restructuring plans. — Dan 3. — Ken Smith 4.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. ’s power generation, he said.

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