According to a report by Navigant Research, about three million of light duty plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will be sold per year by 2020, accounting for 3% of the total light duty vehicle market. The vehicles will include both plug-in ...
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NHTSA Administrator David Strickland At the Consumer Reports "Fuel Economy: Now and in the Future" event last week, the theme was easy to spot: No matter what kind of car you want, you can find one today that gets good gas mileage. And ...
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Chinese automaker BYD Motors' subsidiary, BYD America has signed a contract to introduce electric vehicles and green products for public transportation in Aruba. As part of the memorandum of understanding (MOU), the automaker will support ...
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Electric Mobility Canada's 5th annual electric vehicle conference and tradeshow (EV2013Vé)—the only national event dedicated to the electrification of transportation—is being held in Gatineau, Que., at the Hilton Lac ...
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Automotive parts manufacturer UQM Technologies has signed a new long-term supply contract with vehicle manufacturer Electric Vehicles International (EVI) to extend the vehicle electrification work. Under the deal, EVI will use UQM's ...
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French electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Mia-Electric is planning to launch its EVs in the UK market in summer 2013. Current official British Mia-Electric importer, Venture Automotive Holdings will perform the operations under the name ...
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US carmaker General Motors (GM) and German automaker BMW have jointly tested the use of DC fast charge station and confirmed that the deployment could offer electric vehicles (EVs) an 80% charge in 20 about minutes. The move brings both ...
Beijing plans to increase the number of taxis that run on natural gas from the current 99 to 2,000 by the end of July in a trial project to promote the use of clean energy in public transportation. Beijing now has 2,000 vehicles powered ...
Tags: natural gas, clean energy
Automotive electronics supplier, Paragon's electric-vehicle (EV) division has secured a EUR1.6m contract to supply battery packs for the electric bus manufacturer Vossloh Kiepe. As part of the deal, the supplier will equip a fleet of ...
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors has recalled over 4,000 electric vehicles (EV) in Japan, due to the defective batteries. The recall affected 4,313 units of the Outlander plug-in hybrids in Japan as well as 17 units of i-MiEVs and 98 ...
EXCLUSIVE – Ambitious plans for a unique £65m food production hub that would shorten food supply chains and create up to 2,500 jobs have been put into action by Oakland International The food park would comprise around ...
June 1, 2013 - Georgian College students and faculty will initiate research on power use, quality, consumption and costing for electric vehicles (EVs) thanks to a “first-of-its-kind” charging station supported by PowerStream and ...
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Renault has acknowledged the decision of electric vehicle network provider Better Place to file for liquidation, but says the move will not negatively impact its own electric vehicle strategy. In a brief release, Renault said that while ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has signed a contract with the Swiss high-tech industrial Group Oerlikon for the joint development and marketing of integrated motor and transmission systems for hybrid and electric vehicles. With the ...
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Despite mature technology and better cost structures, production forecasts for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are gloomy. That is the conclusion of the latest E-mobility Index by Roland Berger Strategy ...
Tags: Electric Cars, Transportation