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Mahindra Mahindra Takes Majority Stake in REVA Electric Car Co.

Green Car Congress

Mahindra has a pilot fleet operating with 100% bio-diesel and was the first to launch micro-hybrid technology in India with around 50,000 such micro-hybrids on the road today. Its REVA electric vehicle was first commercially available in Bangalore in 2001 and in London in 2004, under the G-Wiz brand. Earlier post.)

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London Calling: Congestion Charge Recharges Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

India's Reva was first into the market with the G-Wiz. Corporate and public-sector fleets will get to lease 100 test cars for a pilot period of four years. If the tests turn out as Daimler hopes, the company plans to begin commercial production in 2010, before the end of the pilot. “We

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