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Nissan LEAF test drive and first impressions

National Green Transportation

Today, just prior to this weeks PlugIn 2010 conference in San Jose, CA, Nissan brought a production test LEAF to the Santana Row It is T-minus 4 months until the expected date for when the Nissan LEAF will be available in the U.S.

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2011 Nissan Leaf Matches Volt: 8 Year, 100,000 Mile Warranty

All Cars Electric

At the Plugin 2010 Conference in San Jose, California, Carlos Tavares, Nissan's executive vice president and head of operations in America, told a packed audience.

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Arcimoto's Pulse, the electric motorcycle for those who want to drive a space ship

National Green Transportation

Arcimoto attended the recent CleanTech and PlugIn 2010 conferences in San Jose, showing their 3rd prototype, where this writer was able to talk with them. The Arcimoto is an electric three wheeled electric motorcycle sporting an enclosed cabin reminding some of space ships.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Sprout at Plug-in 2010

Green Car Congress

Liberty PlugIns. Liberty PlugIns is providing Level 1, 2 and 3 charging stations integrated with metered parking. Synchronous Codes” is Liberty PlugIns’ patent pending technology that allows parking pay stations to generate the authorization codes used to operate our EV charging stations.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Our EAASV group had a tour of the Lightning facility in San Jose and a field trip to the company’s new location in Hollister a couple of years ago,” Pohorsky said. That was quite a conversion.”

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

San Jose Mercury News ). 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. If that target is met, the largest U.S. automaker expects to sell 1 million within five years to make the model profitable. Bloomberg News ). Reuters ). They need and deserve further research and development."(

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