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Market Forecast Projects Cumulative 1.7M PHEVs Globally by 2015, 36% in the US

Green Car Congress

The Obama Administration is targeting 1 million plug-ins in the US by 2015.) Other hotbeds for EV charging infrastructure will include Israel and Denmark. A new report from cleantech market intelligence firm Pike Research forecasts that by 2015 a total of 1.7 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be on the road worldwide.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. — AH2 14.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

AutoblogGreen bloggers (30 days) # Blogger Posts Cmts 1 Jeremy Korzeniewski 126 4 2 Sebastian Blanco 120 11 3 Sam Abuelsamid 109 9 4 Domenick Yoney 31 0 5 Xavier Navarro 28 0 6 Jonathon Ramsey 1 0 7 Gary Witzenburg 1 0 8 Chris Paukert 1 0 Most Commented On (7 days) Obama outlines high-speed rail plan for U.S. (56)

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US set to get car scrappage scheme

Green Cars News

It will form part of the Obama administration’s Climate Change Bill, of which draft legislation announced on Tuesday is an amended version to permit foreign as well as domestic vehicles into the scheme, no matter where they are built. The scheme will run for one year, and provide for about 1m new car or truck purchases.