Toyota now sells an accessory for its Prius hybrid car that generates synthesized engine sounds to alert pedestrians to the presence of the car when it is running silently on its electric motor. Read More...
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MAUI, HI – Wednesday, September 1, 2010 – ECOtality, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECTY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, announced today that Jonathan Read, CEO and President of ECOtality, will join a China Energy panel discussion at the 2010 ROTH Fall Conference in Maui, Hawaii. The panel will take place on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 9:30 AM HST and will provide an update on the company’s activities and discuss the leading role China will play in electric transportation. Read More... HONOLULU—Nissan says all 300 Hawaii residents who have put down deposits for the Leaf electric car should get a vehicle when the first shipment arrives in January. Read More... Auburn Hills-based electric powertrain manufacturer Alte LLC is speeding up its hiring schedule, with plans to create more than 300 jobs by the end of 2011, as it sets its sites on retrofitting fleet vehicles. Read More... Plug-In America Vice President Paul Scott is an evangelist for electric cars. Now he’s going to be selling them on the floor of Santa Monica Nissan. Email This Post Add your comments Read More... China’s car sales in August rose 59.3 percent from a year earlier, bouncing surprisingly higher after sluggish sales in the summer months, helped largely by Beijing subsidies for fuel-efficient models. Read More... Coming eventually to a diamond lane near you: 40,000 plug-in hybrids that will be eligible for carpool stickers starting in 2012. Read More... BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The stationary energy storage sector will play an increasingly larger role in the electricity grid of the future. Demand is being driven by several key trends including the proliferation of renewable energy from variable sources such as wind and solar, the expansion of utility smart grid initiatives, and the introduction of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. According to a new report from Pike Research, worldwide installed system revenues will grow at a strong pace in the coming decade, increasing from $1.5 billion in 2010 to $35.3 billion annually by 2020. Read More... An old 1972 VW Beetle is expected to be the first electric-powered car to cross Canada from one end to the other when it arrives in Halifax on Friday. Read More... Impressed by the success of the Better Place experiment with electric taxis in the city of Tokyo, an increasing number of Japan’s taxi operators are adopting electric vehicles (EVs). Read More... Will new legislation get the big box retailer to invest in electric car charging stations again? Read More... With mainstream automakers such as Chevrolet and Nissan set to release electric vehicles into the market, interest in electric cars is on the rise among Americans. Read More... ABU DHABI — Electric cars can be successful in Gulf countries and other oil-rich states, but only with initial government help, the president and CEO of Nissan and Renault said on Monday in Abu Dhabi. Read More... Are electric cars less catastrophic for our future climate than gasoline cars? Well, duh. But, here’s another study carefully poring over the evidence and showing it to be the case. At least for Europe. Read More... BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) — Global auto sales are expected to reach 70 million units this year, as China continues to lead the new car market, a senior executive with Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. said. Read More... CLEVELAND, Ohio – Plug-in electric cars in Lakewood, Shaker Heights and Oberlin? Read More... We’ve had an entertaining visit to memory lane at Price reduction to all Nissan Leaf buyers Rairdon’s Nissan of Auburn will be selling the Leaf @ $100 below dealer Invoice shipping available for around $600 anywhere in the US please contact Greg Leach @ Rairdon’s Nissan of Auburn 253 833 4700 or e-mail me gleach@rairdon.com Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) is leading a syndicate of growth-capital investors for a $70 million investment in eHi Car Rental Co., which aims to put more Chinese drivers behind the wheel of its rental cars. Read More... |
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