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Reva: A little company with big ambitions. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Slow, clunky, even potentially “life-threatening” – these are just a handful of the insults that have been thrown the way of electric car maker REVA and particularly its G-Wiz model. It will allow REVA to boast one of the lowest dirt-to-dust carbon footprints in the automotive world. Leaders of the pack.

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History of Electric Vehicles in India

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The cars were powered by a 72-volt lead-acid battery. It had an AC induction motor and a 96V lead-acid battery pack as its power source. Also, REVA Bangalore entered the electric vehicle market in 2001 with a vehicle developed by an American business (Amerigon). The vehicle was equipped with an advanced PMSM driving system.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

E-Mobility is an irreversible megatrend and an imperative to address pollution and generate job opportunities in India,” the chairman of the group had said back then. It was braving through inheriting the loss-making Reva while Tata Motors just had a few R&D concepts of the Vista and Nano electric.

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Call to support current generation of electric vehicles

Green Cars News

The bias against lightweight, low speed electric quadricycles such as the UK’s best selling electric vehicle, the REVA G-Wiz, is highly questionable. Quadricycles are designed for city use and congested roads and are smaller, lighter and lower powered than ordinary cars and speed is not the issue.

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The Climate Change Caravan

Revenge of the Electric Car

Elephant and Reva in India. The Climate Caravan includes ten friends and a solar music band, along with three solar plug-in electric Reva cars. The Revas are traveling 200km per charge on Lithium-Ion batteries (the solar adds 8km extra). Diesel and petrol make too much pollution. Revas at an Indian Gas Station.

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Mahindra Electric’s Greenwashing With SUV Monstrosities | Community Reaction

Plug In India

The efficiency on highways would be close to 250-300 wH/km which will scare away both people like me who crave efficiency and regular SUV drivers who crave power and performance. They bought the Reva from Chetan Maini and killed it. All the five models shown are large sized SUV's. They will continue to push their oil guzzlers.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sign the petition Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge www.sierraclub.org/arctic/ American Lung Association call for better EPA air pollution standards. org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com

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