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Polaris to buy Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM) from Chrysler

Green Car Congress

The GEM e2 two-passenger vehicle features six 12-volt flooded electrolyte batteries and a range of up to 35 miles on a charge. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less. To date, GEM cars have driven more than 450 million emission-free miles. Click to enlarge.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

Electric Auto Association

Thomas is only 18 miles long, so range anxiety is not an issue. People feel more comfortable buying a car they know can be serviced and repaired.” It was a Polaris GEM , it ran at 25 miles per hour (mph). Unfortunately, the taxi drivers weren’t so happy and they hit back.” White’s Polaris GEM with added solar panel.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. In our Gothenburg and Oslo taxi projects, the chargers are at the taxi stands. John Holland: Yes.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

When I told a taxi driver in Marrakech that I was going there, he got angry and shouted: “No! To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person? It’s legal to ride this train, it’s also free. It stopped a few kilometres before the entrance to the port to drop off passengers, taxis were already waiting.