As promised, today we are launching the beta version of the first networking tool exclusively for the electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid community. It will enable you to interact online, find new business and project partners or set-up meetings with prospective customers when travelling around the world. The community will radically change cars21.com from a news platform to an interactive platform for its members and create new opportunities for the EV industry.

The cars21.com community is a brand new networking tool for EV experts around the world. Joining the community will help you find new business and project partners, prospective customers, and interact with decision makers around the globe. 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.

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“The community will radically change cars21.com from a news platform to an interactive platform and create new opportunities for the EV industry. I believe that this tool is the best way to not only share and exchange knowledge but also expand your business and ideas, find partners and customers around the world and facilitate the way to a zero-emission vehicle future by connecting the future key players and innovators in this area,” says Marc Chasserot, Editor in Chief, cars21.com.

Test the beta version and give us your feedback!

Today, cars21.com is launching the beta version of the community. To develop the most valuable tools to fit your needs, we rely on your input. Sign up today (add link) test the different features and give us your feedback. As it is only the beta version we will be continuously testing and improving it, until it has reached its optimal form. This is your chance to actively improve your own community. So you can send us an email to info@cars21.com or post a comment to this article.

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The community highlights

The community features four main areas:

• Personal homepage: Here you can get all new community information. Live updates will inform you instantly about network activities of your contacts, you can find recommendations of people you may know, search for new members and expand your network with interesting people.
• Members: Signing up as a member allows you to connect with the global electric vehicles community and build your professional network of business contacts, project partners and prospective customers. You can add your experience and education, your fields of interest and find people who work in the same area, have the expertise you are looking for or, more importantly, they can find you.
• Opportunities: Post and find new business opportunities to “electrify” the automotive industry and share ideas, exchange knowledge, and generate discussions. In this section you can publish all sorts of requests that could help your business: If you need a specific component supplier for your new EV project, you have a technical question, you need a job or you have a job to offer, a call for papers for your conference or you want to expand your business to another country and you need a local business partner - just to mention a few ideas - this is the right spot for you to post and to look for new opportunities!
• Events: Alert others of new events, browse through the existing list of conferences, and save time by setting up meetings with your contacts attending the same event as you. Here you can organise your business trips more efficiently: You get informed about the most important events in the industry around the globe, you can find other members attending this event or have attended the previous year’s event and discuss about it. If you do not have the time or the money to go there you can see and contact people that attended the event etc.

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What next?

cars21.com is constantly innovating and will be adding new features regularly. For the next weeks and months the following features are planned:

• Technical forum: The forum will allow you to discuss all kinds of technical issues with other experts in the community.
• News sharing function: Share news articles that you find of interest with the community.
• Papers sharing function: With this tool you will be able to share all types of documents, such as presentations, papers, reports etc.
• Jobs board: A dedicated job section will allow you to post or find jobs in the area of electric vehicle technology.
• Company profile: Create company profiles within the community and link these to profiles of individulas from the same company.