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Europe’s Most Financed Luxury Car Brand

EV Info

Latest research from Specialist Car Finance Experts, Forza Finance , has revealed that BMW is the most popular luxury car brand to finance in 16 of Europe’s 44 countries including the UK & Ireland based on finance rather than sales or units. Forza – Car Finance Map of Europe Infogram.

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Tesla Had A Deal To Sell Itself To Google Til Musk Walked Away

Green Car Reports

Like any startup company, Tesla Motors has had crises where the electric-car maker came very close to financial collapse. One was in 2008, when its Roadster model was late in delivery and its two-speed transmission proved unable to handle the car''s power. Finance Elon Musk Tesla Motors Merger Google plug-in cars'

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3 Surprising Marketing Benefits of Electric Car Charging Stations

EV Connect

Let’s look at a few of the benefits of electric car charging stations and explore how your business can showcase its commitment to EVs to reach more customers. 3 Marketing Benefits of Electric Cars There are many advantages to being among the first businesses to offer EV charging stations for public use. In the U.S.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles.

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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

I n another announcement at the convention, Google announced two more recipients of their " Recharge It " largesse. million into electric-vehicle maker Aptera and battery start-up ActaCell. million in series A financing led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and including Google.org, Applied Ventures, and Good Energies. "

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

German energy firm RWE has stated that a cadre of respected automakers and energy firms have all come together in agreement on a three-point, 400-volt plug that will enable electric cars the world over to be recharged anywhere, regardless of which recharging station they stop at. There are clean ways to generate electricity.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries.