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PARIS, Sept 30 – France hopes to have 2 million electric cars on the road by 2020, and its energy minister Jean-Louis Borloo will on Thursday launch a plan designed to ensure the necessary infrastructure is in place in time. The French state will invest over a billion euros, installing charging stations, adapting the electricity grid and buying vehicles, as well as providing subsidies to buyers and carmakers, Paris Match reported on its website on Wednesday. Read More...

BANGALORE: The maker of India’s sole battery-run car, Reva Electric Car
Co., is setting up a second plant in the country’s tech hub to roll out
two new models next year for domestic and export markets, a top company official has said. Read More...

MONTREAL — A consortium of carmakers and experts has published a so-called road map to 2018, when they hope 500,000 electric vehicles will be buzzing along Canadian roads. Read More...

In what may be the first fruits of the G-20 Summit , or maybe just serendipity, Gov. Ed Rendell and Allegheny County Exec Dan Onorato announced that CT&T Co. Ltd., a global leader in electric vehicle technologies, will open two production and distribution facilities in Pennsylvania that will create up to 400 jobs. Read More...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Genovation Inc. (www.genovationcars.com), a Maryland designer and custom builder of environmentally friendly automobiles, recently unveiled its first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHeV), the G1. [Visit Genovation Cars at booth 1125 Oct. 10 and 11 at the Washington Green Festival at the Washington Convention Center] Read More...

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — Mitsubishi Motors Corp., the maker of the i-MiEV electric minicar, will display a plug-in hybrid concept sport-utility vehicle at the Tokyo Motor Show this month, as it seeks to add larger alternative-energy models. Read More...

Bob Kruse, who recently led a critical Chevrolet Volt team and devised the automaker’s long-term electric vehicle strategy, has resigned months before the vehicle’s debut, The Detroit News has learned. Read More...

It wasn’t too long ago when the idea of launching new 2010 Plug In Cars was only written on a scratch of notebook paper. The auto industry has made great achievements since 2008 as consumers demand for fuel-efficient hybrid plug in vehicles. The times are changing as we reduce carbon emissions and foreign oil dependency. Read More...

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – Volvo is conducting extremely wide-ranging and thorough analysis of a variety of safety scenarios for cars with electric power. Through advanced automatic monitoring of battery status and by encapsulating the battery and protecting it effectively in a collision, the result is a comprehensive safety package of the very highest class. Read More...

Not content with trying become self-sufficient in food, possibly electing the first Green party MP and weaning itself off oil as a Transition Town, Brighton & Hove is launching a bid to become UK’s most friendly city for electric cars. Read More...

Auto companies around the world are touting plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles. In South Korea, researchers are working on an experimental alternative they say could revolutionize the way vehicles will be powered. A group of 55 scientists and engineers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, the country’s top technology university known as KAIST, is working on designs for a shuttle service at a Seoul amusement park where vehicles will be driven with power transferred by magnetic induction from cables buried underground. Read More...

Jonathan Read, President and CEO of ECOtality, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, recently appeared on CNNMoney.com in an interview about the $100 million grant ECOtality’s subsidiary, Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. (eTec), received from the U.S. Department of Energy to undertake the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure in history. Read More...

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — Nissan Motor Co., aiming to be the top seller of electric vehicles, said it expects at least 20,000 U.S. orders for the battery-powered Leaf model by the time the car arrives at dealerships next year. Read More...

According to a source close to the matter, the zero-emission i-MiEV, which launched in Japan this year with the delivery of about 50 of the electric four-seaters to government offices and companies around Tokyo, has now racked up over 1400 pre-orders, representing the entire scheduled production run for the first model year. Mitsubishi began taking pre-orders for the i-MiEV through its dealer network on July 31 and within one month had received 900 pre-orders, the source said. Read More...

The Chinese city of Shenzhen was the scene for last week’s deal, described in a press release by Bergé as “evidence that both companies are clearly committed to alternatives for sustainable mobility”. Read More...