Green Car Reports

MARCH 7, 2011

During the Detroit Auto Show in January, we visited the Think electric-car assembly plant in Elkhart, Indiana. It's not necessarily a place you'd expect to find electric cars being put together, but the rows of electric two-seat hatchbacks in blue, red, and black turned out to be surprisingly photogenic.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

THINK will begin selling the THINK City, one of the world’s first highway-capable urban EVs, in the US later this year. The THINK City will appear in Detroit next week at the North American International Auto Show 2010. The THINK City is a purpose-built, all-electric car designed for urban environments.

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Think City Indiana Indianapolis Porsche 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

These vehicles will be leased to 20 agencies, including the Department of Energy, and will be located in Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; and San Francisco, CA. Contracts were awarded for Chevrolet, Nissan, and Think City vehicles. These vehicles will be eligible for the initial purchase.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

Among them is Norwegian electric car company Think, which was formerly owned by Ford. Its Think City car, which has a 112 mile range, has been rolling off the production line since December 2007 although production was halted late last year in the wake of the credit crunch.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think has also established partnerships in the U.S. Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled.

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