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UC Berkeley Study Concludes Battery Switching Model Would Accelerate Mass-Market Adoption of Electric Cars; Baseline Scenario Projects EVs Reaching 64% of New LDV Sales in 2030

Green Car Congress

In two other scenarios considered, a high oil price scenario (using EIA projections) and a battery swap operator-subsidzied scenario, EV new vehicle sales penetration reaches 85% and 86% respectively by 2030. Electric Cars in the United States: A New Model with Forecasts to 2030” was written by Thomas Becker, a Ph.D.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

The Whole Life Times just published an Interview with Chris : The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Filmmaker Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? What happens to an electric car deferred? Ask Chris Paine, director of the documentary film Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. must create a strong electric car industry. The answer may lie in Silicon Valley. And they exist.

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Intel Founder: Look to Silicon Valley for Electric Car Development - GoodCleanTech

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As oil prices fall, "the push for new energy technologies isbeing shoved aside by the nations other economic woes," Grove said. Comments that contain personal attacks or profanity may be edited or removed. Comments containing personal information such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, or addresses may be edited or removed.

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Li-ion Reserve in the World: How it Revolutionised the EV Industry

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Back then the rivals of an electric vehicle such as gasoline-powered and steam-powered personnel carriers or cars were very difficult to operate. Electric vehicles were seemed to be the perfect solution as it doesn’t have any of these issues. Newly found reservoirs of petroleum and crude oil decreased the oil price.

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

Nissan is not alone in going electric. maker of Subaru cars, began leasing electric cars in Japan. owned 10 percent by Daimler AG, received a $465 million government loan to help bring its $57,400 Model S electric sedan to market. “A lot of Americans really want to stop using imported oil,&# he says.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is a company that has already invented new processes (the way it makes batteries) and products (the battery in its electric car) and it is focused on innovation. Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion. Wang told me, when I visited BYD last year. BYD’s forward-thinking management. You are not logged in.

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