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Nissan partners with oil company for electric-car fast charging sites in Charlotte

Green Car Reports

It's one of the questions for future electric-car charging infrastructure: what about putting them at gas stations? On the one hand, drivers are used to going to gas stations, which are often conveniently located on both local and long-distance routes.

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Tesla to expand START training program to Austin, funneling talent for Giga Texas

Teslarati

The START program was designed by Tesla to give students an intensive, small-group education that would accelerate their chance to be an automotive technician who specializes in electric cars. It’s about getting creative to design and build machines of the future. Richard Rhodes, Chancellor of Austin Community College, said.

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News: AAA Offers Mobile Charging

Clean Fleet Report

The pilot program offers mobile charging for free to AAA members in San Francisco, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Orlando, Nashville, Charlotte, Denver, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Avon, Peabody and West Springfield, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, and Bend and Portland, Oregon. Clean Fleet Report agrees completely.

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This EV startup, once valued at $13b, is on the verge of total collapse

Baua Electric

While the company had targeted this year as the date for starting production of its delivery van in Charlotte, North Carolina, only a miracle will make that a reality now. Electrek’s Take Arrival’s shares dropped nearly 95% this year, so it’s the desperate end of days for the startup, with few options to salvage the situation.

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Gadget’s New World

Revenge of the Electric Car

Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric. Gadget made a barnstorming appearance in “Who Killed the Electric Car?&# As 2009 progresses, we’ll be at Gadget and Charlotte’s side as they rebuild their lives.

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