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Lease plans and battery rental - solutions to the EV mark...

16 May 2013

Electric vehicles have required OEMs to come up with new business models in order to increase sales. Battery rental, EV leasing or EVs available in multiple battery sizes, are some of the innovative schemes that have ...

Tesla plans stock offering to repay government loan early

16 May 2013 | CNNMoney.com

It was only last week that Tesla announced its first-ever quarterly profit, but the electric-car maker isn't waiting to repay its loan from the U.S. government.

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BYD's electric taxis hit Hong Kong roads with big ambitions

16 May 2013 | Reuters

Warren Buffett-backed Chinese carmaker BYD Co Ltd rolled out Hong Kong's first electric taxi fleet on Wednesday, marking a milestone for its all-electric battery car that highlights its promise and its limitations.

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Energy Department Selects Industry Consortium to Accelera...

16 May 2013 | Energy.gov

The Energy Department today announced the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium will lead an industry-wide effort to accelerate development of high-efficiency, cost-effective battery technologies for electric vehicles. By ...

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Elevtra

16 May 2013 | Service provider

The main objective of ELEVTRA is to develop a comprehensive, international and standardised training programme on the maintenance and repair of Electric Vehicles (EV) and charging stations (CS). The project addresses ...

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Mitsubishi brings back $10,000 rebate on i-MiEV electric ...

14 May 2013 | Green Autoblog

With US monthly sale figures headed back towards the double-digit range, Mitsubishi is once again trying to goose sales of its i electric vehicle (also known as the i-MiEV) with some heavy-duty rebates. The Japanese a...

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Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging Moves Forward, In Long...

14 May 2013 | plugincars

The battle cry to “plug in” your car might need to be adjusted, because wireless charging of electric vehicles is getting real. WAVE Inc., a company spun off from Utah State University, recently won contra...

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Electric Cars: With Model S, Tesla Takes the Lead

14 May 2013 | Nasdaq

In recent years, the electric car has been hyped, debated, derided, and even used as "a political punching bag," in the words of Tesla Motors' ( TSLA ) serial entrepreneur CEO Elon Musk . Republican presiden...

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Latest developments on ELEVTRA, the EU project for EV tra...

14 May 2013

The ELEVTRA project, funded by the European Life Long Learning programme, met for its 3rd transnational meeting in Gijon, Asturias, Spain on 7-10 May 2013. The project partners had the opportunity to present progress ...

AeroVironment Wins Ford For Plug-In Electric Vehicle Char...

13 May 2013 | socaltech.com

Monrovia, California-based electric vehicle charging developer Aerovironment has added a big new customer for its charging station installation service: Ford Motor Company. According to AeroVironment, it will be the p...

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Nearly 22 Million Electric Vehicles Will Be Sold from 201...

13 May 2013 | Navigant Research

While sales of electric vehicles (EVs) have not met the expectations of governments and automakers, they continue to expand steadily. Both plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have bec...

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Tesla Motors sparks up first profit

10 May 2013 | BBC

Electric car maker Tesla Motors drives into profit for the first time in its 10-year history, reporting a profit of $15m (£9.65m) in the first three months of the year, thanks to sales of its Model S electric se...

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2013 Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Energy Summit

Conference | 30 Oct. 2013 - 31 Oct. 2013 | Berlin, Germany

ACI’s 2013 Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Energy Summit will be taking place in Berlin, Germany on 30-31 October 2013. The two day event will bring together key industry stakeholders from all facets of the hydrogen ...

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Electric mobility in a smart city – 200 EVs to be t...

8 May 2013

Electric mobility project Zem2All (Zero Emissions to All), backed by Japanese automaker Mitsubishi and Spanish utility provider Endesa, has been launched at the end of April 2013 in Malaga. The objective of this pil...

The Next Electric Car Breakthrough: Short-Distance Vehicl...

8 May 2013 | plugincars

Discussions about electric cars obsessively focus on range. There’s endless hand-wringing about why EVs can’t go as far as gas cars, what it would cost to make that happen, and how current range limits kil...

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Electric car fleet taken on by West Midlands Police

8 May 2013 | BBC

A fleet of electric cars will be used by police in Birmingham and Coventry after a successful trial. West Midlands Police will use 30 electric cars on lease for the next three years. The force first used an electric c...

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Range Rover, Sport Hybrids To Debut At Frankfurt Show

8 May 2013 | Green Car Reports

Range Rover isn't the first brand that comes to mind when thinking of green vehicles. Cars for traversing green and pleasant lands, perhaps, but not saving fuel as they do so. However, the company is changing. First t...

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Digatron Firing Circuits joins cars21.com to showcase its...

7 May 2013

Digatron Firing Circuits Electric Vehicle Battery Tester (EVT) is a scalable computer-controlled equipment that emulates load profiles of EV & HEV. The EVT realises the functions charge and discharge with freely p...

Public Charging Stations For Electric Cars: Who Leads The...

7 May 2013 | Green Car Reports

For the majority of the general public to consider purchasing a fully electric car, they first want accessible public charge points located at or near places they frequent in their daily life. It's also clear that ...

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China not embracing electric cars

7 May 2013 | USA Today

Fears that China will catapult past the U.S. in the race to put electric vehicles on the road have fizzled. Despite choking pollution in big Chinese cities, the government faces the same obstacles as the U.S. in th...

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