Mitsubishi i-MiEV: Entry Level for Electric Cars - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Mitsubishi i-MiEV: Entry Level for Electric Cars
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Jonathan Welsh As more electric vehicles enter the market, sticker shock has begun to eclipse consumers' long-standing worries about short range and batteries that can catch fire. Ford's electric Focus compact car has a base price just below $40000 ...
RETHINKING ELECTRIC CARS – PART 8. Green Energy News
Mitsubishi goes green Daily auto news

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Boulder Electric Vehicle to open Chatsworth assembly plant - Los Angeles Times

Boulder Electric Vehicle to open Chatsworth assembly plant
Los Angeles Times
By Roger Vincent A Colorado electric vehicle manufacturer has leased an industrial building in Chatsworth where it will assemble delivery trucks and utility vehicles. Boulder Electric Vehicle will occupy a 27714-square-foot manufacturing building at ...

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Qualcomm Shows Halo, Their Wireless Vehicle Charging Technology - Bright Side of News*


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Qualcomm Shows Halo, Their Wireless Vehicle Charging Technology
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Currently they are being tested in vehicles ranging from high-end electric sports cars to itty bitty Citroen cars. They even have been tested in some Rolls Royces. Qualcomm Halo is known as WEVC or Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging and enables your ...

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Bat'Lib Battery-swap System for Matra Electric Scooters - Gas 2.0

Bat'Lib Battery-swap System for Matra Electric Scooters
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Renault and Project Better Place already have their system in operation NOW in a few countries, and Matra – manufacturer of small bikes and light electric vehicles – just launched theirs. Called the Bat'Lib system, Matra's system is a rolling 10-slot ...
EVS: Bat'Lib, new battery swapping system for scooters, coming from Matra, DBT Autoblog (blog)

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Detroit 54.5 MPG Mandate Gets Help From U.S. Army's Tanks - Bloomberg


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Detroit 54.5 MPG Mandate Gets Help From U.S. Army's Tanks
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Reid, director of vehicle-testing labs at the Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center in Warren, Michigan, leads a staff that also is testing a system to turn exhaust heat into electricity to power a tank's computer.

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Better Place Electric-Car Battery Swapping: Live Report - Green Car Reports

Better Place Electric-Car Battery Swapping: Live Report
Green Car Reports
To find out, we were invited to Israel, where Better Place is in the finishing stages of testing 40 battery swap stations which it hopes will turn Israelis away from gasoline and onto electric cars forever. After a morning's briefing on Better Place ...

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Tesla to Begin Repaying US Loans by End of This Year - Bloomberg


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Tesla to Begin Repaying US Loans by End of This Year
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Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), the electric-car company led by Elon Musk, is using the last of its $465 million in US loans and plans to start repaying them by the end of the year, the first startup to fulfill requirements of the criticized program.
Tesla brings elegance to electric vehicles Las Vegas Review-Journal
Recharge of the Cool: The Electric Car You'll Want Is Finally Coming DailyFinance
Tesla on schedule to start repaying U.S. loans San Francisco Chronicle
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Fisker Karma involved in house fire but battery not cause - CNET


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Fisker Karma involved in house fire but battery not cause
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Fisker released a statement saying that the electric car's battery pack was intact and "does not appear to be a contributing factor in this incident." The Fisker Karma is a luxury sports car that runs on electric motors and has a gasoline engine to ...
Newly-built mansion burns down after owner's two-week old $100000 electric car ... Daily Mail
Luxury hybrid ruled origin of fire KPRC Houston
Investigators say tight engine packaging caused Fisker Karma fire Digitaltrends.com
Big Hollywood - Motor Authority - Jalopnik
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$100K electric vehicle being investigated after Texas fire - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)


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$100K electric vehicle being investigated after Texas fire
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Photo shows the remains of 2012 Fisker Karma after a fire engulfed the vehicle last week.(Courtesy of Johnson, Trent, West & Taylor law firm) A $100000 electric car is suspected in sparking a fire at a Sugar Land home last week, according to media ...
Fisker: Karma battery did not cause Houston fire Chicago Tribune
Another electric car bursts into flames Human Events
Fisker Karma Reportedly To Blame for House Fire Wired News
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Toyota RAV4 EV: Will anyone buy it? - MarketWatch


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Toyota RAV4 EV: Will anyone buy it?
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For anyone arguing recently that electric cars don't stand a chance in the US mass market, I would have offered one end-all example: the battery-powered Ford Focus at $40000. Now Toyota Motor Corp. (US:TM) offers even stronger ammunition in the form of ...
Tesla-Toyota relationship bears electric fruit The Malaysian Insider
Toyota Launches RAV4 EV Zacks.com
TOYOTA RAV4 EV: $50610 BEFORE TAX INCENTIVES U-T San Diego
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