Toyota Motor Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have agreed on the details of specific financial assistance they will provide to installers of charging stations for electric ...
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Specifications of the upcoming Kia Soul EV have been released, with the South Korean car maker promising a “best in class” range of more than 190km. The Kia Soul EV – Kia’s first zero-emission, all-electric vehicle ...
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor is set to start verification tests in preparation of the deployment of chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) in Aichi Prefecture, Japan from 15 November 2013 to 15 March ...
Car Charging Group, a nationwide provider of convenient electric vehicle (EV) charging services, has filed a utility patent application for an EV charging station with a toggle unit technology. Previously, CarCharging had filed a ...
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors has entered into an agreement with Panasonic in which Panasonic will expand its supply of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla. As a part of this agreement, Panasonic will supply nearly 2 ...
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Volvo has completed a research project into inductive charging for electric vehicles, with a senior executive expressing the wireless technology has “great potential”. Partnering a consortium of companies, including Volvo, ...
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There will be more than 10,000 new Telsa owners across Germany each year by 2015, according to the electric car maker’s CEO, Elon Musk. Speaking with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag last week, Musk said the ambitious annual target ...
Israel-based Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. (EVS) — a provider of vision solutions for surface inspection and real-time quality monitoring — has introduced C-BELT, an inspection system for narrow safety belts such as automotive ...
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz speaks about clean energy revolution in the U.S. in an article recently posted on Department of Energy website. For decades, America has chased after the promise of clean, domestic energy. But even ...
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UK-based Drayson Racing Technologies (DRT), the low-carbon motorsport and electric vehicle R&D business, has signed a wireless electric vehicle charging (WEVC) licence agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated in order to include Qualcomm Halo ...
OEMs have been successful in developing technology for e-mobility worldwide, with vehicles now ready for series production. The price of an electric car is thus falling sharply, as the e-mobility index for Q3 2013 from Roland Berger ...
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Nissan has hit back at plans by Volkswagen to become the electric vehicle market leader by 2018, while reaffirming its own aim to increase range to 200km on Leaf and introduce four new electric vehicles to market within two years. ...
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Japanese carmaker Nissan has unveiled a new technology for the light commercial vehicles that uses smartphones to offer safety as well as performance data to drivers and fleet managers in real time. The new IT system is claimed to be able ...
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Fast-charging technologies are driving the growth of the electric vehicle recharging market, with the cumulative number of stations established worldwide expanding by a factor of more than 100 times from 2012 to 2020, according to a new ...
US based technology systems provider AeroVironment has secured a contract from the automobile manufacturers Fiat to be its full-service home charging partner. Under the deal, the systems provider will supply as well as install its ...
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