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Nissan plans 1,000 new stations to quickly charge electri...

28 January 2015 | New York Times

Nissan said it would help open about 1,000 high-speed charging stations for electric vehicles between now and April 2016. Days earlier, BMW and Volkswagen announced a joint effort to build 100 high-speed public cha...

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EU funds 200 charging points for electric vehicles across...

26 January 2015 | Cities Today

The EU’s TEN-T Programme will provide €5 million to co-fund a study and a pilot deployment of 200 charging points for electric vehicles on the main French highways. The project will contribute to the develo...

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China gets ready for EVs in 2015: ELECTRIC CHINA WEEKLY N...

20 January 2015

The Chinese EV (electric vehicle) market kicked off 2015 with the first China Electric Vehicles 100 Forum gathering over 700 participants from government, industry and research organisations, who came together in Beij...

Jordan Wants to boost electric-car adoption; solar chargi...

19 January 2015 | Yahoo Autos

The country will waive import tariffs in electric cars--which would normally double their price--and spend $120 million to install a network of solar-powered charging stations, according to a recent Navigant Research ...

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Tesla killer: GM to unveil long-range electric car

15 January 2015 | USA Today

General Motors will unveil an all-electric concept car at the Detroit auto show Monday that has a 200-mile range and Tesla in its competitive crosshairs. The Chevrolet Bolt could hit the market in 2017, people fami...

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How Georgia became the biggest electric vehicle market in...

14 January 2015 | Guardian

During the last year, sales grew more than sevenfold in the southeastern state, with electric cars accounting for one of every 60 new cars sold, according to data firm Statista. That’s a higher percentage than t...

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Ford announces electric vehicle plan and other initiatives

13 January 2015 | Smartmeters.com

During his 2015 International CES keynote, Ford chief executive officer Mark Field outlined the company’s new initiative, a set of 25 experiments designed to test out innovative ideas that address an array of dr...

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Mercedes Unveils Self-Driving, Pollution-Free Car At CES ...

12 January 2015 | Newsweek

Dubbed the Mercedes-Benz F015 Luxury in Motion, this automobile is fully autonomous and produces no carbon emissions whatsoever, said Dieter Zetsch, head of the German company. It is powered by a battery and a fuel ce...

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Electrical grid: grid benefits from electric vehicles

9 January 2015 | Utility Products

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and automaker BMW are teaming up to test the ability of electric vehicle batteries to provide valuable services to the electric grid. If successful, the pilot program could ...

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Gogoro ignites smart city transformation with launch of w...

7 January 2015 | PR Newswire

Gogoro, a company transforming how energy is distributed and managed in megacities, today unveiled the world's first high-performance, zero emissions, two-wheeled electric vehicle, the Gogoro Smartscooter™. The ...

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Atlanta’s $98 million (€82 million) elect...

6 January 2015 | cleantechnica

The city of Atlanta’s $98 million (€82 million) initiative to bring electric streetcars back to the city is now finally starting to bear fruit, with the first section of a possible city-wide network no...

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Audi to launch two electric vehicles by 2018

5 January 2015 | Carscoops

Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said in an interview that by 2018, their range will feature two new EVs, including a €2 billion investment in the development of electric drive systems and digital technologies. &nb...

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San Diego County opening new charging stations for electr...

23 December 2014 | KPBS

Several charging stations for electric vehicles are set to go into operation Monday in the parking garage under the Waterfront Park at the County Administration Center. The stations are located along the southwest wal...

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Sales of electric vehicles up 46% in Republic of Ireland

23 December 2014 | Irish Examiner

It represents a 46% increase on the total sales figure last year for all such vehicles which include electric vehicles (EVs), hybrids and plug-in hybrid electric types.Hybrids remain the most popular type of model, ac...

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New study shows electric vehicles can have significant cl...

22 December 2014 | Union of Concerned Scientists

A new study from the University of Minnesota shows that plug-in electric vehicles have both an air quality and global warming emissions benefit when they are charged using electricity generated from natural gas or ren...

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Here’s how electric cars could be cheaper than gas ...

18 December 2014 | Quartz

One thing confounding the much-delayed electric car revolution is that its antagonist—the gasoline engine—is a moving target. Under dogged pressure from electric competitors and government emissions standa...

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Earley: Think bigger on electric vehicles

17 December 2014 | The Detroit News

Electric drive technologies have improved dramatically in recent years. The number of charging stations in the country has multiplied from fewer than 6,000 to more than 20,000. And the cost of batteries, the biggest f...

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China speeds up on EV infrastructure investment: ELECTRIC...

17 December 2014

China is increasing its EV investment in different regions of the country. With the goal of reaching EV sales of 5 million units by 2020, local government is speeding up infrastructure construction by building chargin...

Electric Cars: a review of 2014

16 December 2014 | Forbes

The United States is the largest electric car market in the world. Through November of this year, 83,647 electric cars were sold in America. While this represents a 26-percent increase over the number sold during the ...

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PG&E chairman sees electric vehicles as an opportunity

16 December 2014 | Utility Products

In an address to the Detroit Economic Club, Tony Earley, chairman, CEO and president of PG&E Corp., laid out a vision of an environmentally cleaner, economically stronger and more energy-independent America. One o...

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