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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Infrastructure, recharging and business models. You now have hundreds, thousands of different entities, whether it is a municipal government, a retail shop owner, or someone who manages parking garages or a utility or someone else who has to make decision about well, what are we going to do, how are we going to build this infrastructure?

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

Plug In India

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. The aim is to build batteries at a large scale to reduce prices. Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. Well except Japanese automakers, who have buried their heads in the sand!

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: M&N/Alamy Some operators of early direct-current power plants at the turn of the 20th century solved the problem of uneven power output from their generators by employing large banks of rechargeable lead-acid batteries, which served as a kind of buffer to balance the flow of electrons.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

If you’re CATL, you can sell in mass quantities to GM and Ford. When we were first starting off at Daimler Truck, trying to find a battery cell supplier that would build us a pack that was good in the truck was difficult. If you don’t build something like that, people can’t refer to it. It’s less time and effort. It won’t work.

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The best electric cars in Australia in 2024 between $100,000 and $150,000

EV Central

From the driver’s seat though it’s smooth and swift transport, aided by a claimed 520km range and swift recharging capability. The Luxury is the cheaper of two RZ450e models, but that doesn’t actually make it cheap. It comes here without the squircle (squared circle) steering wheel also known as a yoke. Maybe in the future.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. BYD – Chinese car maker (the name means Build Your Dreams) has huge plans for Australia, including a range of SUVs and a sports sedan. Ford has also confirmed the smaller Transit Custom to go EV.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It In the basement of his school's engineering building, Dr. Frank and his students tinker with sport-utility vehicles.