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The Irish Government has announced a new partnership with Japanese car maker Mitsubishi to promote electric cars. The deal was affrimed with the car manufacturer and its subsidiaries the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), MMC Commercials and MC (Automobile). [...] A year after their historic bankruptcies, General Motors and Chrysler have already cut the cost of making each vehicle by $3,000,and labor costs could be lower than at any Japanese automaker in the U.S. in less than five years, according to the Center for Automotive Research. [...] Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) introduced its flashy i-MiEV electric car to the Hong Kong market on May 24, marking the first foreign sale outside Japan. [...] The muscle power show is heating up by the two automobile companies, M&M (its second attempt after 2003) and Ruia(makers of Dunlop tyres) in acquiring the Korean SUV company Ssangyong Motor company. The Korean company has so far received seven bids including these two companies and French Renault. China’s SAIC has got 10% stake in Ssangyong (earlier it had nearly half of the total shares). The Korean company has been travelling through a tough trough, one being the court involved restructuring process. [...] I’ve been writing about the economic viability of electric cars lately. I’ve wondered whether Americans will accept cars with substantially shorter range than conventional cars, and whether the infrastructure needed to support electric cars would ever become a national reality. [...] Nissan broke ground on a new battery plant in Smyrna, Tennessee yesterday (figuratively, anyway, the actual bulldozing doesn’t start for a few weeks). For now, we will call this the U.S. Leaf battery plant, but it’s really part of Nissan’s strategy to electrify more and more of its vehicles. As we mentioned yesterday, once it is up and running at the end of 2012, the plant will have the capacity to make 200,000 battery packs a year. The nearby vehicle assembly facility where the U.S.-built Leafs will come to life will have a maximum capacity to make 150,000 Leafs a year alongside other Nissan vehicles like the Altima and Pathfinder. The extra capacity, if used, could be sold to other automakers or go into non-Leaf Nissan products. [...] WASHINGTON (May 27, 2010) � Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Judy Biggert (R-Ill.), [...] Despite promising efforts to stop the Gulf oil leak through a ‘top kill’ effort, a mind boggling amount of damage has already been done to this precious ocean ecosystem. [...] By Desmond L. Marshall – Three senators, two Democrats and a Republican, introduced a bill to help communities get ready for electric cars by creating charging stations and helping utilities to get ready for increased demand. [...] CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Coulomb Technologies’ exclusive EMEA distribution partner 365 Energy today announced that Zohar Energy has been chosen by Polish energy company POLENERGIA to support its expansion as a leading provider of infrastructure solutions for electric vehicles (EVs) in Poland. The first ChargePoint® Networked Charging Station was installed in Warsaw earlier this month. The ChargePoint stations are manufactured by US-based Coulomb Technologies. [...] NEW DELHI, May 28 (UPI) — One of India’s largest utility companies has bought a controlling stake of 55.2 percent in electric car maker Reva, the Financial Express reported Friday. [...] The Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010, introduced in Congress this week, has a simple goal to electrify half of all cars and trucks on U.S. roads by 2030, and a basic strategy: focus the might of the federal government on a small number of pilot communities around the country, subsidizing the buildout of charging infrastructure and purchase of electric vehicles. [...] Europe’s first commercial smart-charging station for electric vehicles (EV) has opened for business in The Netherlands. [...] According to figures released by Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Environment, global sales of electric powertrains will be worth €470- billion by 2020. Assuming national market shares remain unchanged, this means a potential market value of €85-billion for Germany’s car manufacturers. Meanwhile, sales of cars powered by conventional internal combustion engines will decline. This is why Germany is setting itself ambitious goals. If the federal government has its way, there will be one-million electric cars on Germany’s roads by 2020. It is a complex challenge, given that it means turning two whole industries and their production chains – car making and energy supply – on their heads. This can only work if manufacturers, component suppliers and scientific organisations enter into a close dialogue and agree to move forward together. Hanover Fair provided the best platform for this kind of dialogue in the form of the MobiliTec trade fair. [...] Nissan shocked everybody a bit earlier this week when they announced they had developed a DC fast charging station that had the capability of getting a Nissan LEAF’s 24 kWh battery pack from zero to 80% full in under a half hour. It wasn’t so much the fast charging capability — also known as Level 3 charging — that shocked. We’ve all known Level 3 charging was coming. No, it was the price of their charging station. [...] WASHINGTON — The federal government would provide grants to help cities build the infrastructure needed to support electric vehicles and to offer new tax credits for buyers of those cars under legislation introduced Thursday in Congress. [...] General Motors will launch a hybrid partially battery-powered vehicle in south Asia by the end of the year, the group’s country head said yesterday. [...] As companies across the nascent electric vehicle market seek Chinese allies to gain a foothold in the world’s largest auto market, Indiana-based Ener1 has found itself a new dance partner. Ener1, whose subsidiary EnerDel makes lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles, signed an agreement on Thursday to form a joint venture with the electric vehicle division of Wanxiang, one of the largest auto parts suppliers in China. [...] Until Toyota stepped in last week, Daimler was the only major auto manufacturer to take a stake in electric-car startup Tesla Motors — a company that has now become synonymous with next-generation transportation. Now Daimler wants to work the same magic with BYD, the Chinese battery and electric vehicle maker, to establish its own transcontinental dominance in the market. [...] The hot, sweltering Tennessee sun baked us under a big white-top tent this morning as Nissan dedicated the future site of their $1.7 billion dollar, state-of-the art Nissan LEAF battery plant in Smyrna. Encompassing 1.3 million square feet (22 American football fields), when the plant comes online in late 2012 it will be one of the largest battery facilities in North America. [...] Drivers who buy electric cars will need a quick, convenient place to recharge their batteries. And the industry is ramping up to fill that need, says a report released Tuesday by Pike Research. [...] The chief of Nissan and Renault discussed electric cars and the introduction of the Leaf, Nissan’s entry into the market. Ghosn said that the auto industry was rebounding and that a lower Euro would help the company’s car-making operations in Europe. Neal Boudette and Simon Constable conducted the interview. Latest ArticlesGlossaryRegisterNew to this topic?ReportsPrinted ElectronicsPhotovoltaicsRFIDEnergy HarvestingSmart PackagingElectric VehiclesEventsForthcomingPreviousPresentationsAdvertiseAbout Us [...] Toyota’s Prius has been a runaway success for the company. First introduced as an ’01 model in 2000 in the United States market, the hybrid has continually gained in sales, gotten larger to accommodate American tastes, and has become more powerful and more fuel efficient. [...] Magna Int. (MG.A-T72.920.360.50%) is marshalling its forces for the battle of the batteries. [...] DETROIT — Nissan’s chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, said Tuesday that the company had already received 19,000 orders in the United States and Japan for the electric car that it would start selling at year-end. [...] The city of Vacaville, Calif., a small town halfway between the Bay Area and Sacramento, has a little known distinction: It has more electric car charging stations per capita than any other city in the country. [...] Terry McAuliffe is in the car business. [...] The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan, ESB and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, MC (Automobile) Europe and MMC Commercials have signing a Memorandum of Understanding to further promote the electric car industry in Ireland. [...] Carlos Ghosn, credited with turning around ailing Nissan a decade ago, said today he’s confident sales of electric cars will account for 10% of the market by 2020. He isn’t worried by naysayers who, he says, are often car makers who simply aren’t prepared to compete in the rising electric segment. [...] |
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