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IEA: Electric vehicles posted strong gains in 2016; 2M now in global parc

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of total passenger light-duty vehicles in circulation in 2016. Paris, for example, has mandated that any electric car is allowed to re-charge at the re-charge stations of its car-sharing program Autolib. London for its part encourages EV adoption by waiving its congestion charge. Click to enlarge.

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Peugeot E-Expert walk around and first drive

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Here’s the Peugeot lion with a dichroic treatment on it to signify that it’s electric, apparently the badge changes colour according to the light and angle, to me from here it looks blue. Coming round the front you’ve got your automatic lights and alloy wheels. The CCS connector is your public rapid charge port.

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Aixam Mega welcome electric car plan

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London Mayor Boris Johnson’s recently announced Electric Vehicle Delivery Plan is a highly positive step towards kick-starting the large-scale adoption of electric vehicles and boosting consumer confidence, according to electric quadricycle manufacturer and distributor Aixam Mega. The average journey in London is just four miles.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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These—including, for example, an electric version of the T2, the iconic VW van of the late 1960s and 1970s—were mostly test cars and prototype cars, but also small fleets for special purposes. Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). Reducing the rolling resistance coefficient from 7.2

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “I Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s ’s power generation, he said.

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