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Your EV range anxiety is making the world ugly – just ask the Tesla Model Y | Opinion

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Until that happens, it seems, we’ve really all got to find some kind of universal drug to treat our range anxiety – Va Va Valium, Mercedes-Benzos perhaps – so that car companies can make EVs look less ugly and boring, or at least that’s what the experts are saying.

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LADOT orders 130 BYD electric buses

Green Car Congress

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has ordered 130 BYD battery-electric K7M buses, the largest single order of battery-electric buses to date in the United States. BYD considers the LADOT purchase as a signal to the market that zero-emission buses are here to stay and that their use will continue to spread.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. The buses will be deployed in areas such as downtown and the University. Napa Valley Transportation Authority. 1,200,000.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Marc Gunther Last Updated: April 13, 2009: 9:29 AM ET Warren Buffett with BYDs E6. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Also meeting BYD e6 owner! Started the day with a visit to India’s first owner of the BYD B6 car. The BYD is going to be Jay’s car now. The BYD folks use kWh per 100 km - please spare us guys and move on to wh/km.) With BYD’s proprietary blade cells, it probably is the best car in the country.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

They wanted to buy one or two trucks and test them for several years, and startup companies couldn’t stay alive that long. They said, “No, no, we buy a lot of power from the utility. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. At the time, there were eleven OEMs.