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Electric bus market and trends 

Electric Vehicles India

BYD received Israel’s largest electric bus order. In a recent trend of electric vehicles and electric bus segment, the Egged, Public transport operator and the largest bus company in Israel has ordered 100 purely electric 12-metre buses from BYD. Electric bus market and trends .

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots.

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Indian Oil Corp exploring hydrogen to use as eco-friendly fuels 

Electric Vehicles India

Indian Oil Corporation’s research and development (R&D) centre is exploring how the hydrogen can be used as fuel since early 2000s in their recent test the hydrogen has been mixed with the compressed natural gas (CNG) to make H-CNG. Indian Oil Corp exploring hydrogen to use as eco-friendly fuels . 600 crores each.

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Tritium partners Solcon Industries to provide EV charging infrastructure in Israel & Palestine

Electric Vehicles India

Tritium partners Solcon Industries to provide EV charging infrastructure in Israel & Palestine. With the partnership, Solcon Industries becomes an official channel partner and service provider of Tritium’s range of fast charging technology to help meet the growing demand for EV charging infrastructure in Israel and Palestine.

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Pike Research makes 10 electric vehicle predictions for 2013

Green Car Congress

More broadly, Pike envisions PEV sales in California—the leading market for such in the US—expanding into smaller urban and suburban regions with more dealers beginning to offer the vehicles. Pike also anticipates forward momentum with PEVs in China.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. dealer network. The first car will be the Wheego Whip, which is most certainly not a smart for two, and the plan is to find 50 dealers in America who want to sell them.

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