Posts Tagged ‘plug-in’

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    GM Builds First Opel Ampera
    The Opel Ampera passed an important milestone Friday, April 23, when the first pre-production Model Year 2012 Ampera rolled off the line at GM’s Pre-Production Operations assembly line in Warren, Michigan. Assembly workers will build more pre-production Amperas in the coming months. These pre-production vehicles will not be sold at dealerships, but used instead for testing...
    by admin at April 26th, 2010 at 11:04 am
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    DOE Completes $529 Million Loan to Fisker
    Fisker Automotive secured a key $528.7 million federal loan for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The loan will support the Karma, a full-size, four-door sports sedan, and a line of family oriented models being developed under the company’s Project NINA program. The California-based will use $169.3 million to cover the engineering...
    by admin at April 24th, 2010 at 03:04 am
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    GM to Launch Chevy Volt Sooner Than Expected
    General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre announced the Chevy Volt will go on sale in October, one to two months earlier than originally scheduled. The move will give GM a head start on the Nissan’s Leaf, which is expected to go on sale in December. Both will be sold in limited quantities in select markets. Detroit Hamtramck will build the Chevy Volt extended range electric vehicle....
    by admin at April 21st, 2010 at 11:04 am
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    Study Says 1 Million Plug-in Electric Vehicles on the Roads by 2020
    As automakers ramp up production of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), a group of U.S. and Canadian power grid operators who manage most of the North American bulk electric grid collectively studied the effect that PEVs would have on the electric power grid. “Assessment of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Integration with ISO/RTO Systems,” by the ISO/RTO Council (IRC), is a...
    by admin at March 24th, 2010 at 06:03 am
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    Aberdeen University to Investigate Electric Car Market
    The potential market for electric vehicles is to be examined by experts from the University of Aberdeen. The University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Transport Research has been awarded funding by the UK Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to explore who will buy and electric cars. The outcomes of the study will feed into ETI’s plans for the world’s most extensive...
    by admin at March 19th, 2010 at 06:03 am
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