electric vehicles
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While early adopters won't need many public charging points for their electric cars, conventional wisdom has it that the public at large probably will. And according to a May report by Pike Research, that's exactly what will happen. The clean-technology market research firm predicts that by 2015, the U.S. will have almost 1 million publicly accessible electric-vehicle charging stations. Globally, the total will be 4.7 million. Most electric vehicles in the U.S. will still be charged overnight at their owners' homes, Pike's report says. Public charging will be relatively more important in the...
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Zero Motorcycles Awarded $900,000 Development Grant, Aims HighStaff and customers of Zero Motorcycles were celebrating yesterday when the company was awarded a $900,000 grant by the California Energy Commission to further its power-train development. Founded in Santa Cruz, by former NASA engineer Neal Saiki, Zero motorcycles became world leaders in electric...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
Why Your First Electric Vehicle Could Have Two Wheels
We're living in exciting times. In the next year we'll see electric cars hit the market in the form of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Mitsubishi i-Miev to name just three. While we wax lyrical about the multitude of vehicles set to reach the market there are very few available...
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Toyota Teams Up With Tesla For Electric Vehicle Development
Tesla and Toyota have announced that they intend to cooperate on the development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support. The two companies intend to form a team of specialists to further those efforts. Additionally, Toyota has agreed to purchase $50 million of...
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GM Confirms Lithium-Air Battery Research to Revolutionize EV
General Motors is quietly conducting research into Lithium-Air batteries, the next Holy Grail of electric vehicle technology, according to a Friday article in The New York Times. GM acknowledges that while the battery technology has some way to go before it is used in commercial electric cars, the...
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Nissan Putting its Stamp on EVs (Or Rather, its EVs on Stamps)
Customers served by the Japan Post Network's Minami Kanto office will be able to spread enthusiasm for electric vehicles with a unique set of stamps starting in February. The delivery company has partnered with Nissan to offer a new collection entitled "Nissan Electric Vehicle History." Believe it...
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A headline like the one above begs the question, "What's the catch?" Can you really get an electric car for free? Well, kinda. Oklahoma-based, Drive Electric, sells neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs - a.k.a. electric golf carts) made by Western Golf Cars and Zone Electric. The NEV retailer is currently offering the four-passenger Zone Electric NEV-48 EX for $6,496.53. Not free you say? Subtract the $6,496.53 federal tax credit for EVs from the purchase price and voila. You've got yourself a free EV. Sure, this EV is only legal to drive on streets with speed limits of 35 mph or less, and...
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2011 Chevy Volt Investment: How Does This Differ From the EV1?
Another day, another announcement in the series of carefully timed press releases on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car. In this case, it's the news that GM's investment in the Detroit-Hamtramck plant where the Volt will be built totals $336 million. General Motors says that sum...
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Will Electric Cars Destroy Your Neighborhood Power Grid? No, But...
Over the next 12 months, carmakers will introduce several new plug-in electric vehicles. One question that's frequently asked of GreenCarReports: Does recharging electric cars pose a threat to the electricity grid? The 2010 Fisker Karma and the 2011 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids, among other...
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CEO Group Goal: 75 Percent of U.S. Miles in Electric Cars By 2040
Roadmaps aren't inherently sexy, unless you're lost and hungry. But when they demonstrate plausible visions for the future, they can be well worth reading. Today, a group of 13 CEOs and board chairmen from a broad range of companies announced that they've formed the not-for-profit Electrification...
John Voelcker
