Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2010
Startup electric car company Aurica Motors announced a plan to keep the NUMMI plant, which employs 4,700 people, from shutting down when Toyota leaves on 31 March. Planned production would be 5,000 cars in the first year of production, moving up to 50,000+ within three years. Aurica envisions a battery swap in 3 minutes or less.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 21, 2010
The new Indiana plant will give EnerDel the capacity to produce battery packs for approximately 600,000 hybrid electric vehicles, or 60,000 battery-electric cars. EnerDel is referring to the latter as “electric-vehicle equivalents” —about 20-25 kWh.) million, which comprises a state incentive package of $21.3
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 5, 2010
For more details, follow the link … Ford Plans to Start Electric-Car Tests in Germany Next Month. will start a two-year test program of electric Focus compact cars and Transit vans in Germany on Jan. company prepares to introduce battery-powered models as early as next year. “Ford Motor Co.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
This will take place within the framework of the German economic stimulus package (Konjunkturpaket II) and other national and state programs to jointly address standardization and cost reduction issues. The plan envisages around one million electric cars on German roads by 2020. Earlier post.).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. The SAE standard for this is called J1772.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 30, 2009
Ed Kjaer, the director of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, demonstrates how the Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle or MiEV plugs into their Garage of the Future at their Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Pomona on Thursday, January 22, 2009. Though some types of power generation can easily be.
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car. Photo by Jim Wilson, New York Times. February 15, 2010.
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