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BMW previews future electric SUV with faster charging, more range

Baua Electric

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025. The combination of cylindrical cells and the 800-volt shift will speed up charging by up to 30%, BMW claims. “This lowers electricity costs and helps stabilize networks.”

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BMW previews future electric SUV with faster charging, more range

Baua Electric

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025. The combination of cylindrical cells and the 800-volt shift will speed up charging by up to 30%, BMW claims. “This lowers electricity costs and helps stabilize networks.”

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

A coalition of car makers, battery suppliers and electricity providers has come together to ask for federal help for EVs. More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones. November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET.

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Three Battery-Electric Opel Merivas to Participate in MeRegioMobil Research Project; Vehicle-to-Grid Integration

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The battery-electric Opel Meriva research vehicle. Opel is developing three battery-electric versions of its Meriva small MPV as research vehicles to participate in the MeRegioMobil research project funded by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology. Opel will use MeRegioMobil to study new intelligent charging technologies.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

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. Photo by Eric Tom). By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. usually made of copper) that conduct electricity.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. See Chevy Volt for latest. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet." Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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