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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

This is perhaps a reference to a sacred stone revered by the local Toda people. Guests are not allowed to get their dogs along, so Jungle Hut environments are deer friendly. Mund" is the Anglicised form of the Toda word for a village, Mandu. What I liked most was the deer grazing next to the rooms. We met with Capt Arvind over there.

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place. That’s not too bad, if battery prices keep going down, then a BEV-100 of near cost parity (referring to same size of car) becomes possible. A typical EV can do with a smaller 35kWh pack for 100+ miles of range which is $9k.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

During the 4 th COP, developed nations began to emphasize the issue of the lack of enabling environments as a barrier to technology transfer. Notably, pieces of knowledge being all different from each other, there is little standardization, making it difficult to have references such as common price or standard contracts. References.