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Plugless: first wireless charger to provide 1 million charge hours for PEVs

Green Car Congress

1 st production wireless charger available for purchase by EV owners. In 2014 Plugless began selling 3.3kW wireless EV chargers for Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF. 1 st 7.2kW wireless EV charger available for purchase. 1 st production wireless EV charger to inductively charge a Chinese production EV.

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GE and GM to partner on deploying EV infrastructure in China; focus on Shanghai

Green Car Congress

The main piece of the co-operation centers on Shanghai, which was selected by the Chinese government as the country’s first EV pilot city earlier this year and home to both GE’s and GM’s China headquarters. General Motors plans to begin selling Volts in China before the end of this year.

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Deutsche Bank Forecast sees slower transportation electrification and greater gasoline demand near-term; increased confidence in the pace and breadth of long-term shift to efficient transportation systems

Green Car Congress

Key developments in the transportation sector that they note include: Positive for gasoline demand: Strong Chinese car growth in 2010, particularly in the first half of the year, with vehicle sales up 30% year-on-year (YoY) through the first eleven months of 2010. Volt manufacturing capacity will rise from 10K in 2011 to about 65K in 2012.

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Maxwell Technologies Lands $13.5M Order for Ultracapacitor Modules for Hybrid Buses in China

Green Car Congress

has received purchase orders with a total value of approximately US$13.5 David Schramm, Maxwell’s president and chief executive officer, said that deliveries of the company’s 48-volt BMOD0165 P048 modules, which are assembled by one of its contract manufacturers in China, already have begun and will continue through the balance of the year.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

The standard unit of electrical power is the watt, which is defined as a current of one ampere, at a voltage of one volt. More simply, volts x amps = watts. In the UK, the standard wall socket delivers 240 volts. Your power comes from the grid as 240 Volts AC. Again at the time of purchase we knew none of this.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Interest in electric cars is surging: •Nearly 52,000 people were wait-listed as of mid-April for General Motors’ electric model, the Volt, due in November. Bob Lutz, the outgoing vice chairman of GM, has said the company will produce about 8,000 Chevy Volts in 2011. Chinese green-car subsidies on hold.

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Continental and CITC establish China-based for production of 48V battery systems

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Continental and Chinese automotive supplier and battery manufacturer CITC (Sichuan Chengfei Integration Technology Co., will establish a joint venture for the development and production of 48-volt battery systems for the automotive industry. CITC allows us access to the extremely significant Chinese market. Earlier post.).

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