Archive for May, 2010

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    Telekom Austria Turns Phone Boxes Into Electric Car Charging Stations
    Telekom Austria has announced plans to turn old telephone boxes into recharging stations for electric cars. During the test phase the service will be free of charge. Following commercial launch, charging stations will offer the possibility to pay via mobile phone using text messages, paybox or a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) card with a RFID chip. 13,500 telephone...
    by at May 5th, 2010 at 06:05 am
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    Berlin Won’t Provide Subsidies for Electric Cars
    Berlin will not subsidize the sale of electric cars, but it will provide funding for research in the area of electric mobility. At the launch of the National Program for Electric Mobility in Berlin on Monday, German officials said that federal funding would instead go toward research programs to advance the technology. The decision not to offer consumers incentives to...
    by at May 5th, 2010 at 02:05 am
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    Consumers Still Unsure About Electric Cars
    With the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt set to hit dealer lots, 40 percent of consumers still feel they don’t know enough about the technology to consider an electric car for their next purchase. While the bulk of consumers are still unsure of the technology, those who said they would consider an electric car (36 percent) for their next car purchase outweighed those...
    by at May 4th, 2010 at 11:05 am
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    Germany to Spark Electric Cars Development
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched plan to put at least 1 million electric cars on the German roads a decade from now. That’s the goal established on Monday by executives from the country’s automakers and energy companies under a new alliance called “National Platform for Electric Mobility”. Merkel said the aim was to have one out of every 45...
    by at May 4th, 2010 at 03:05 am
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    Ford Transit Connect Electric Goes to Europe in 2011
    Ford Motor Company announced on Monday it will begin selling the Ford Transit Connect electric van in Europe beginning in late summer 2011. Ford’s relationship with Michigan-based Azure Dynamics is already well established in North America and is now extending to Europe. Ford will make the shells of the Transit Connect Electric vans at a factory in Kocaeli, Turkey,...
    by at May 3rd, 2010 at 01:05 pm
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    Volkswagen Unveils Golf Blue-E-Motion Concept
    Volkswagen has unveiled the all-electric Golf blue-e-motion concept in Berlin that is scheduled for market launch in 2013 alongside an Up blue-e-motion electric car. Volkswagen said that in three years would also launch technically closely-related Jetta blue-e-motion. In the same timeframe, the Lavida blue-e-motion will also launch in China. The Golf blue-e-motion concept...
    by at May 3rd, 2010 at 04:05 am
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    Sion Power Receives ARPA-E Grant for Electric Car Batteries
    Sion Power has received a three-year research grant worth up to $5 million from the United States Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). Under the ARPA-E program, Sion Power, in collaboration with BASF, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will accelerate the development of practical, economical...
    by at May 2nd, 2010 at 03:05 am
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    Nissan Leaf Pre-Orders Pass 8,000
    Ten days after Nissan started taking pre-orders for its LEAF electric car, the company has already secured over 8,000 reservations in the U.S. Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s director of product planning, told Reuters that Nissan is now on track to receive 25,000 orders ahead of the launch of the car in December. Even though the initial U.S. launch will be limited...
    by at May 1st, 2010 at 06:05 am
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    FEV Shows Dodge Caliber ReEV at UQM Technologies Facility
    FEV showed its Dodge Caliber Range-extended Electric Vehicle (ReEV) with plug-in capability at the April 30, 2010 grand opening of the new UQM Technologies, Inc. production facility in Longmont, Co. UQM was a grant recipient under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Vice President Joe Biden attended the grand opening. The Caliber ReEV incorporates a UQM traction...
    by at May 1st, 2010 at 05:05 am
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