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OLA Electric's huge scooter factory - India's own Gigafactory

Plug In India

And the demand of using an efficient, quiet, tech savvy electric two wheeler will only increase from a younger generation. Also Mr Bhavish confirmed that you can charge the battery at home, so the Ola battery will be removable unlike the Ather or the Chetak. The time for dirty pollution scooters is over guys. Ride electric!

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Electric Scooter Fires : OLA Electric, PURE EV | Industry & Media Responsibility

Plug In India

At the same time the Indian mainstream media and the pollution vehicle media have to stop causing hysteria when it comes to EV fires while conveniently ignoring the hundred's of ICE fires happening each month. We’re investigating this and will fix it. Look at these irresponsible tweets from the pollution vehicle media.

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NRC report recommends ways to overcome barriers hindering purchases of PEVs; vehicle cost, battery tech and consumer knowledge among others

Green Car Congress

Can travel hundreds of miles on a single battery charge and then be refueled in a time that is much shorter than the additional driving time that the refueling allows. Its small battery can be charged from the grid, but its AER is much less than the average daily US driving distance. Four Classes of Plug-in Electric Vehicles.

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Seven-day test: Living with the Porsche Taycan RWD

EV Central

Despite being the cheapest Taycan the tech still feels otherworldy. We’re showing 100 percent charge and a range of 475km. Except there’s no wireless phone charging, annoyingly. I forget to remind them we’re not on solar so the emissions have just moved from the tailpipe to the polluting power station.

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Packaging second-life EV batteries into a plug-and-play energy storage system

Charged EVs

CEO and co-founder Antoni Tong recently explained to Charged how the system works, and how the company procures batteries and prepares them for successful second careers. Charged : Let’s start at step one. Charged: If a car gets totaled, you might buy the battery pack on the salvage market? Antoni Tong: Correct.

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That Super Sexy Clean Tech Roundtable, Part II of a Greenius Exclusive

Creative Greenius

If you’re like me you would have found Tuesday’s gathering in Santa Monica a very sexy day at the beach. I like me some really smart people of either sex who come together to offer solutions and who know what they’re talking about. But the Creative Greenius? I don’t need any sexy blondes to get my attention.

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A closer look at high-power interconnects and disconnects

Charged EVs

Note, however, that at a high enough voltage and/or with an insufficient contact separation distance (exacerbated by separating the contacts too slowly during the break operation), mains-frequency AC will happily re-strike an arc 100/120 times per second. the “make” operation), and how to pull them apart to open it (i.e.

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