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Tesla Battery Biz Put on Back Burner, Th!nk To Get Energy Elsewhere

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Back in May Tesla announced it would be selling batteries to Th!nk nk Global for its revived City electric car. Now CNet is reporting that Tesla won't be supplying Th!nk Tesla Energy Group is on hold, while TeslaMotors concentrates on getting the delayed Roadster produced. Seemed a great synergy at the time.

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Tesla Powered Th!nks?

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Michael Kanellos over at CNetNews.com reports from the recent Clean-Tech Investor Summit that Tesla Motors will be selling its battery packs to other electric car companies. Martin Eberhard, CEO of Tesla Motors, said that Tesla has formed a group called Tesla Energy Now to sell battery packs to other companies.

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It's official - Think to set up shop in Indiana

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nk has an active application before the US DOE under the $25-billion Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan program that has benefitted Tesla and Fisker. Tags: richard Canny thinkev.com think city mitch daniels. A lot may hinge on that application.

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First New Th!nk City Rolls Off Line

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We are building full production cars with all the right components from the right suppliers,” Think Global CEO Jan-Olaf Willums said. In the wake of Tesla's decision not to sell it's batteries, word is the first cars will be using the Zebra battery. Tags: zebra battery think city.

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US DOE progress report says 1M plug-ins by 2015 ambitious but achievable; not likely to be constrained by production capacity

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Tesla Model S EV. Tesla Roadster EV. Think City EV. Navistar eStar EV. Nissan LEAF EV. SEV Newton EV. Cumulative Total. As a result, DOE concludes, meeting the goal is not likely to be constrained by production capacity.

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Helsinki to host electric display of green cars

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Among the exhibitors will be Think, the Norwegian electric vehicle will be making its Finnish motor show debut with its Think City electric car. The Think city car has a range of 112 miles and a top speed of 65mph. Joining Think, will be Tesla with its Roadster sports car.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

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The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. Tags: snow koan solar google.org black rock city think global Burning Man vectrix think city toyota NiMH.

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