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Could Tesla Be Selling 10 Million Cars A Year By End Of Decade?

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As co-founder Ian Wright told me in a 2014 interview, “Martin Eberhard’s initial stimulus for starting Tesla was to build the EV he wanted to buy. Originally posted on EVANNEX. by Charles Morris At Tesla’s founding back in 2003, no one imagined the massive growth that lay ahead for the company. Or did they? Elon Musk had […].

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Continental Mobility Study 2020 finds many people still have doubts about EVs

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The majority of people in Germany (59%) cannot imagine buying an electric vehicle in the future. In France (57%) and the US (50%), at least half of the population cannot yet imagine themselves in an electric car, and the percentage in Japan is only slightly lower (46%).

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ECOtality to Provide Blink EV Charging Stations at Select US Best Buy Stores

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will provide electric vehicle (EV) charging stations ( earlier post ) at select US stores of electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Under the terms of the agreement, the Level 2, J1772-compliant charging stations will be installed at 12 Best Buy stores in Tucson, Ariz.; ECOtality, Inc. Phoenix, Ariz.; Los Angeles, Calif.;

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New report showcases innovative finance tools to electrify truck, bus fleets; TCE Toolkit

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To ensure and accelerate the transition, we must move beyond the set of traditional mechanisms that have been used to assist one-to-one replacements of trucks and buses, such as grant programs providing basic buy-down payments. The solutions featured in this report will help catalyze the electric vehicle transformation.

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PECO Expanding Fleet with NGVs & PHEVs

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PECO is expanding its fleet with new natural gas and hybrid electric models. The utility is participating in a national consortium that recently was awarded a federal stimulus grant to purchase plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and the company is buying more trucks to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as well.

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This is How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect The Global EV Market

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COVID-19 & Global Electric Vehicle Market. It is expected that, with continuing innovations in the car industry, the electric vehicle market has seen steady growth. For instance, on top of ongoing schemes to encourage the selling of electric vehicles , China pledged more than $1.4

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

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A new Federal Grant will enable many electric vehicle early adopters to get their chargers for free. (A Nine United States regions will receive 4,600 free chargers for public and private use through the ChargePoint America program, funded in part by $15 million in stimulus funds administered by the Energy Department.

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