The B2B platform for full-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles: Industry News

Today, the B2B platform for the EV industry has added a new start page with direct access to the latest added news, directory members, papers, and events. The launch coincides with an open survey about “Plug-In” – the global networking tool for the EV industry to be launched soon.

cars21.com has made another step towards becoming a more dynamic tool for the EV business community interested in staying up to date with recent developments in industry, and policy. A new home page lets you see the most recent items added to cars21.com: news, flash news, papers, events and companies joining the global business directory. This constantly updating log allows you to stay ahead of developments in the EV industry, find organisations relevant for you, and gain quick access to freely available studies and presentations.

“Today we add an interactive home page to cars21.com to show that content on this B2B platform is updated constantly, every day. News, papers, events, and soon also members joining the online community – cars21.com will be more dynamic from this day on, paving the way for an upcoming networking tool to facilitate exchange inside a growing business and research community,” says Marc Chasserot, Editor in Chief, cars21.com

The new cars21.com Home

Concretely, the new start page of cars21.com will welcome visitors with a feature image highlighting the last four major news or other items from the platform’s different sections. An arrow selection tool lets you switch between images. Below, a list of the most recent items added to cars21.com allows you to filter by the categories “All”, “News”, “Companies”, “Events”, “Papers” to see the most recent additions in a certain section of cars21.com.

On the right side, subscribing to regular news updates, RSS feeds, and/or Twitter updates is made easy. A quick link to the world’s only dedicated business directory for the EV community, as well as a random selection of four already existing directory members is also provided to track the growing collection of relevant suppliers, OEMs, research facilities, electric utilities and associations growing every day. Upcoming events give you a quick overview of next weeks’ events focusing on EVs/PHEVs.

Survey: “Plug-In” to the EV Community

Together with the new home page launch, cars21.com is announcing the upcoming networking tool for the global EV business community, called “Plug-In”. Early 2010, Plug-In will help you find new business and project partners, prospective customers, and decision makers. By sharing ideas, exchanging knowledge, and generating discussions you will extend your reach step by step and ultimately build your professional network needed to “electrify” transportation.

“Get smart & plug-in to the EV community – this is our call for input from industry players, researchers, decision makers, and anyone looking to find relevant contacts to develop technology solutions, build recharging infrastructures, or remove policy barriers on the way to zero-emissions vehicles. Over the coming few months, we will work on the first networking tool exclusively for the electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid community,” Chasserot explains.

To develop the most valuable tools to fit your needs, we rely on your input. Please follow this link to answer just a few questions in which direction “Plug-in” should be heading.