Automotive supplier Continental has unveiled its 'Simplify your Drive for Electric Vehicles (EV)' concept vehicle technology. The technology acts a navigation device, fuel gauge and displays the range to be travelled by the remaining ...
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A contract between Nissan and the city of New York for a fleet of taxis is before the courts, with a New York Supreme Court Justice ruling that part of the program’s deal is “null, void and unenforceable”. Industry ...
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Tesla Motors has paid off the remaining portion of the loan granted to it by the US Department of Energy in 2010. The California-based electric vehicle manufacturer transferred US$451.8 million ($464.0 million) this week to clear its debt ...
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Worldwide capacity of Li-ion batteries for Electric vehicles applications is expected to soar ten times from 4,400 megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2013 to nearly 49,000 MWh by 2020, according to a new report by Navigant Research. According to the ...
Carmaker Nissan has begun the field tests of the pure electric e-NV200 compact van in Saitama City of Saitama Prefecture in Japan. The tests are part of the agreement signed between Saitama City and Nissan for the E-KIZUNA Project in 2009 ...
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JNS Holdings has established a new majority owned subsidiary called as Evolve USA Charging in Illinois, US that handles sales, service and the development of electric vehicle (EV) charging systems. As part of the Chicago Grant Agreement, ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) says that Fumihide ‘Humi’ Esaka will join the firm as its new CEO, starting 1 July. Transphorm reckons that ...
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A Renault Sport executive has confirmed the sports division is having a “very close look at” electric vehicle techonolgy. A pair of Renault Zoe electric vehicles were spotted inside the Renault Sport engineering headquarters, ...
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US based carmaker Ford Motor has chosen the technology solutions provider, AeroVironment as installation partner and authorized charging station supplier for its electric vehicles (EV). Under the deal, the technology provider will offer ...
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Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
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You wake up in the morning and your robot starts the coffee maker and then sends the daily calendar to the car. The car then works on a plan that makes sure you keep to that schedule. It's not a scene out of a sci-fi movie. It's the ...
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GE Capital's subsidiary, Equipment Finance business has signed a three-year contract to offer finance for buying commercial vehicles of Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), a subsidiary of Polaris Industries. Under the deal, the GE capital ...
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The production version of the Toyota FCV-R hydrogen fuel cell concept should cost less than US$100,000 when it launches in 2015, a top Toyota executive has said. Industry journal Automotive News quotes Toyota US group vice president of ...
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The California-based assembler of the Chinese-made Coda electric car has filed bankruptcy. Coda Holdings, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the District of Delaware overnight, which is intended to ...
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Chinese manufacturer Geely Automobile has signed a partnership with US EV company Detroit Electric to jointly develop a range of pure-electric vehicles that is set to launch in China in 2014. Due to go on sale in the first quarter of 2014 ...