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California Energy Commission approves more than $20M for clean transportation projects; Tesla, Quallion, other EV, battery and alt-fuel vehicles projects

Green Car Congress

the air district will demonstrate specially designed battery electric taxis that can use switchable batteries to give the vehicles essentially unlimited range. Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used.

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

Green Car Congress

GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less.

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Failure to equalise VAT on public charging a missed opportunity

My Energi

Plug-in grants will continue until at least 2025, however, for motorcycles, vans, taxis, trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles. This will clearly play a key part in consumer decision making when it comes to buying an EV, and has the real possibility of slowing the transition to electrification.

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Three perspectives on China’s EV industry (spoiler alert: legacy brands are toast) – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Car Wars Han Feizi, writing in Asia Times , offers a colorful assessment of the current EV scene in China, which he compares to the notorious Japanese “motorcycle wars.” In the 1950s, over 100 companies in Japan started making motorcycles, sparking a “wild, untamed, often unscrupulous and dazzlingly innovative” melee.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

The electric motorcycle scene has disappointed. For example, there is no news from Tork motorcycles. For example, when you buy an EV, there is no Road Tax and Registration Fees. We know people who are yet to receive their electric motorcycle having booked it in early 2020. There has not been any action as anticipated.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I One was affordability.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

Ended up buying some harbaara , carrot, cucumber and oranges. I wonder how he can use art to make cycling less infra dig amongst the motorcycle driving community that is India. We reached there around 1100 hrs - and found a Blu Smart MG taxi already charging. There were a lot of cabs parked waiting for customers to happen.