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Electric Car Sales & Registrations Updates For Canada...

14 April 2014 | Clean Technica

I’ve just published electrified vehicle sales and registrations updates for Canada, Switzerland, and Denmark over on EV Obsession. This follows up on updates for the US, Sweden, and Norway. Unfortunately, I&rsqu...

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The Future of Electric Cars in India

14 April 2014 | The Indian Republic

Since the last few years, the use of Electric vehicles as a successful transport option is catching up very fast with our times, and we hear from the automobile industry that we are almost there. The battery is ...

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GM Is Serious About Electric Cars, Despite Grumbling By A...

14 April 2014 | Green Car Reports

Electric-car advocates often forget that it took seven years from the first Toyota Prius hybrid, launched in Japan in 1997, until sales of the second-generation Prius started to grow in global markets. Now, G...

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AABC Asia 2014

Conference | 19 May. 2014 - 23 May. 2014 | Kyoto, Japan

The first ever AABC Asia will be held in Kyoto, Japan. The AABC Asia 2014 technical sessions will include: LLIBTA Symposium: Large Lithium Ion Battery Technology and Application Session 1: Next-G...

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US Electric Vehicles sales report for March 2014

11 April 2014

The monthly electric vehicle (EV) sales report is provided by InsideEVs and is updated with the latest available information. March heralds not only the return of spring, but the end to the “gloomy season”...

China Considers More Electric-Car Incentives: Official

3 April 2014 | Bloomberg

The government may cut or waive the 10 percent auto-purchase tax for new-energy vehicles -- China’s term for electric cars, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell vehicles -- and slow down the reduction of government sub...

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Electric car breaks all sales records in Norway

3 April 2014 | Barents Observer

There is a boom, or a game-changer, in the sales of electric cars in Norway. Never before in history has one model, whatever fuel power, sold more in one month than the Tesla Model S did in March. And Tesla is not uni...

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US Electric Vehicles sales report for February 2014

2 April 2014

The monthly electric vehicle (EV) sales report is provided by InsideEVs and is updated with the latest available information. After a slow month in January in which only 5,470 plug-in cars were sold in the US, 7,...

Uruguay’s Public Transport Goes Electric

25 March 2014 | IPS News

Uruguay plans to gradually replace oil-based fuels with electric energy in its public transport system, and is currently assessing the costs and benefits of the shift. Tests indicate that the running costs of elect...

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BMW i8 Plug-in Hybrid Deliveries Begin in June

24 March 2014 | Triple Pundit

The highly anticipated BMW i8 plug-in hybrid electric car is entering production in April, with customer deliveries beginning in June. It will be available on the European market first and is sure to make a spla...

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Mitsubishi confirms more plug-in hybrid SUVs

24 March 2014 | Car Advice

The next-generation Mitsubishi Pajero and Mitsubishi ASX will both be offered with PHEV plug-in hybrid electric versions, the Japanese company has confirmed. The announcement was made at the local launch of t...

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Order-books open today for all-electric Volkswagen e-Golf...

12 March 2014 | Automotive World

From 11 March, customers can place orders for the fully electric Volkswagen e-Golf, which is priced at £25,845 on the road (including £5,000 Government grant or £30,845 RRP). The e-Golf can be ...

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All-electric vehicles will come from Jaguar Land Rover

6 March 2014 | Auto Express

Manufacturer reveals it could eventually go zero-emission, while hybrid could become most popular power

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Driving ahead

6 March 2014 | Economist

ELON MUSK, the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has started a bidding war among four states in America’s south-west for the future home of a “gigafactory”. Due to start production in 2020, the giant ...

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Global Production of Electric Vehicles to Surge by 67 Per...

17 February 2014 | IHS

Southfield, Mich. (Feb. 4, 2014)—Driven by tighter emission standards in Europe, worldwide production of electric vehicles (EVs) will soar by 67 percent this year, according to IHS Automotive, driven by Polk. ...

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London's first electric taxi fleet hits the streets

11 February 2014 | Business Green

London's first fleet of electric taxis has come into operation today, four years ahead of Mayor Boris Johnson's 2018 deadline for all new cabs to be zero emission. The 20 e6 model taxis have been manufactured by Warre...

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Tesla stock hits record high

11 February 2014 | CNNMoney.com

Shares of Tesla Motors shot up to a record high Monday after China's finance ministry announced higher than expected subsidies for electric cars bought there. Shares of Tesla shot up as high as $196, before easing off...

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Serious electric car production growth predicted

11 February 2014 | Earth Techling

All of that activity in Europe you’ve been seeing of late, whether it involves Tesla Motors or aggressive electric vehicle development plans in the United Kingdom, heralds this part of the world is moving m...

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US Electric Vehicles sales report for January 2014

10 February 2014

The monthly electric vehicle (EV) sales report is provided by InsideEVs and is updated with the latest available information. After December 2013 ranked among the best selling months of the year for electric cars, 201...

Kia Soul EV joins electric car ranks

10 February 2014 | Cnet

Kia chose the Chicago Auto Show as the debut venue for the Soul EV, the electric version of Kia's boxy little hatchback SUV thing. The standard Soul model received a major update for the 2014 model year. The Soul EV w...

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