Protean Electric announced that it received $70m in new funding from GO Scale Capital, Zhejiang VIE Science & Technology Co. Ltd., and Tianjin THSG Corporation. The investment follows Protean's announcement in May that the Company is ...
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South Korean electronics giant Samsung has acquired a 2% stake in Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD for $455m. This move is being seen as an attempt by the South Korean firm to foray into automotive industry. Many technology ...
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The number of public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in North Carolina will jump 30 percent thanks to a new project from Duke Energy. Duke Energy's "EV Charging Infrastructure Support Project" will provide $1 million to help ...
Electric Car Insider magazine has developed an interactive mobile EV Buyers Guide app for iOS tablets and mobile devices. The app helps people interested in electric cars learn about electric vehicle technology and find a car that fits ...
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Nissan Motor's Joint Research Center for Intelligent Mobility and Tsinghua University (Department of Automotive Engineering) announced a collaboration in Beijing. The collaboration will work on research and development of electric vehicle ...
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At Auto China 2016 Nissan unveiled the all-new Tiida and announced the launch of Maxima, strengthening its product offering for young consumers in China. Additionally, the Nissan IDS Concept premiered, bringing the company's vision for ...
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eMotorWerks announces JuicePlug, a universal charging station adapter for EV supply equipment that will extent its smartphone and web interfaces to pre-existing, non-networked charging station. This will enable every EV driver to ...
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) Electric Vehicle Grid-Integration pilot project, signaling the "green light" for the company to own and install thousands of electric vehicle (EV) ...
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Nissan is planning to invest £26.5m to produce next generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries at the company's advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Sunderland, UK. The proposed investment expects to save 300 jobs ...
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By combing its solar panel business and energy storage sector, BYD delivered a truly zero-emission ecosystem to the world in 2011. Today, BYD makes itself one of the world’s leading EV manufacturers as it topped No.1 by selling most ...
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California-based electric-car startup Faraday Future is planning to invest $1bn towards a manufacturing facility in the US to make its first range of electric cars. Faraday Future has not announced the exact location of the proposed ...
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A consortium of carmakers and infrastructure firms, led by Element Energy, has launched the Hydrogen Mobility Europe (H2ME) project to support the the introduction of hydrogen-fueled transport across Europe. The H2ME project, being backed ...
World-industry leader Bosch is debuting a new battery technology for electric vehicles that might be available in five years as it acquired the U.S. start-up Seeo Inc. founded in Hayward, California. Bosch will combine Seeo’s ...
A new £2.5 million fund will give Scottish motorists access to an interest-free loan of up to £50,000 for electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. The Electric Vehicle Loan is open to anyone looking to buy a new electric or ...
The Auckland Council in New Zealand is switching on to electric vehicles (EVs), substituting 10 of its petrol vehicles with two all-electric Nissan Leafs and eight Toyota Prius hybrids. If everything works as planned, the civic body will ...
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