USA: Report on ECOtality Hosts Debut Of Nissan Leaf In Arizona

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Unveiled largest solar powered boat PlanetSolar might visit Miami as part of tour around the world

An international team of scientists, engineers and boat builders from Germany and Switzerland has developed the world’s largest solar powered boat designed to circumnavigate the world. The PlanetSolar multihull vessel, built by Knierim Yatch Club, was unveiled on February 25, 2010 at the HDW Shipyard in Kiel, Germany. Read More...

Japan: GS Yuasa to Lift Lithium-Ion Cell Production 10-Fold by 2012


By Mariko Yasu and Maki Shiraki
March 1 (Bloomberg) — GS Yuasa Corp. plans to boost annual production of lithium-ion batteries 10-fold over two years to meet demand for alternative-fuel vehicles. Read More...

Europe: Opel to launch Plug-in Hybrid, Ampera, in 2011

Opel Ampera
The revolutionary Opel Ampera will be the first emission-free, electrically driven automobile in Europe suitable for everyday driving. With its Voltec electric propulsion system providing lively acceleration and high levels of refinement, the five-door Ampera seats four passengers in comfort, offers a useful trunk for their luggage, and features an extended range of more than 500 kilometers. Read More...

UK: Cornwall Council confident over electric car funding

The council’s original bid failed to get funding in the first round of the Government’s plug-in car grant scheme. Read More...

USA: Paving the way for electric cars

By STEVE EVERLY
The Kansas City Star
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Paving the way for electric cars, utilities make plans now Jack Cooper Transport explores reality TV possibilities Many underwater homeowners overpay to stay Local James Beard Foundation semifinalists are announced Fueling the future | Heating from the ground up A Kansas City-based company pushes Jet magazine out of its time warp Kansas City Power & Light Co. is preparing for a highway power play — a new breed of electric cars. Read More...

UK: Mitsubishi Motors UK Customers In Prime Postion For £5,000 ‘Plug-In-Car Grant’ On I-Miev


CIRENCESTER, UNITED KINGDOM – February 25, 2010: Following Lord Adonis, Transport Minister’s announcement today, Mitsubishi Motors UK customers will be in a prime position to enjoy the benefits of £5,000 off of the purchase of the multi award winning all electric i-MiEV. Read More...

USA: E.V. Companies Tell Senate They Need Federal Help

Although it was overshadowed by the Toyota drama taking place in the House of Representatives, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Energy and Water Development held a hearing on “Electric Vehicles in the Light Duty Auto Sector” this week, and the Senators heard a fairly unified message from players in the electric vehicle community. There could be a significant early gap between E.V. demand and E.V. supply, they said, and we need help getting these green cars off the ground. Read More...

Nissan's Leaf up close (10 photos)


Creating an electric car posed a lot of challenges, such as where to put 480 pounds of batteries. Nissan’s stylists came up with a design that is both futuristic and functional.
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UK: Electric cars get £5,000 government kick start

The electric car industry was celebrating today after the government unveiled long awaited plans to provide a £5,000 grant to individuals and businesses purchasing plug in vehicles. Read More...

USA: Finding the Serial Entrepreneur to Lead a Global Gas-Guzzler Conversion Industry

GETTING THERE ASAP: CalCars 2.0 aims to convert tens of millions of gas-guzzler vehicles now on the road to run partly or entirely on electricity. What will it take to reach that goal? How can we turn a game-changing idea and a few prototypes into a scalable global solution? If we replicate our CalCars 1.0 strategies, it may take seven years. If instead we mesh our advocacy and partnerships with an effective, profitable business enterprise, we can start this extraordinary transformation in two or three years. That’s our plan. Below we outline how to get there, how a new company will pair its efforts with the nonprofit CalCars, and how we define success. We wind up with ways you can help us identify and inspire an extraordinary leader and business team to jump into this opportunity ASAP. Read More...

USA: Electrifying Transportation – Foreign Oil to Domestic Electrons…

Why would we want or need an electric or hybrid vehicle? What will we have to choose from? What kind of maintenance will be required and where would we get it? Where and how would we charge (fuel) our vehicle? What will be the costs for all of this? Read More...

Battery evolution overwhelms mass production


New chips come out every year, always faster and more cost-effective. So do new devices using those chips, and new servers, and new technologies combining servers in new configurations. Not to mention new software at every level. Read More...

USA: Electric Car Production Underway In Blue Ash

CINCINNATI — Production is now underway in Blue Ash on a unique type of electric car, which could lead to the creation of hundreds of jobs and yield an alternatively fueled vehicle costing about the same as an SUV. Read More...

UK: Expansion for electric car scheme in north-east England


A scheme to provide charging points for electric vehicles across the north-east of England is to be expanded with a £2.9m government grant. Read More...

USA: BREAKING: GM Battery Czar Denise Gray Leaves Volt Team For California Startup

A key member of the small team brought together four years ago to create the 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car is unexpectedly leaving General Motors. Read More...

BigThink interviewed Calcars.org’s Felix Kramer

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South Korea To Propose Tax Incentives For Electric Cars

As part of its proposed measures on vehicle taxation to contain carbon emissions and encourage green industries, the South Korean government is looking at reducing taxes on electric cars purchased in the country. Read More...

Is Lithium the 21st Century's Oil? Part III


There are three main types of rechargeable batteries: Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), and Lithium Ion (Li-Ion). The main advantage of using lithium batteries over the others is higher charge density. Lithium batteries are smaller than equivalents such as nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH), and much lighter. In layman’s terms they “punch above their weight.” And unlike nickel cadmium batteries, lithium ion batteries do not suffer from “memory effect.” They also have a low self-discharge rate of approximately 5% per month, compared with over 30% per month in common Ni-MH batteries, 10% per month in nickel cadmium batteries. Read More...

Toyota Prius variants coming in 2011, Lexus IS based RWD plug-in hybrid in the works


The new Lexus CT 200h is just one of the many hybrids in the works from Toyota. Sources say that Toyota will continue to expand its range of hybrids with a Prius based wagon, sporty coupe and an MPV in spring 2011. That will be followed by a Lexus IS-based rear-wheel-drive plug-in hybrid Toyota sedan and a hybrid version of the RAV4 by 2012. Read More...