Month: March 2007
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Electric economy car rolls off line; company gets $25 million
The Norwegian company, which plans to produce a line of all-electric sedans, produced its first car last week, said company President Jan-Olaf Willums. It’s got money too. Last Friday, the company began to seek venture funds. It got commitments for $50 million in funding and accepted $25 million, he said. Later in the spring it…
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GM targets 2010 production for electric car
………………………… Great article with great potential for GM again.? GM has said it is aiming for the Volt to be able to run for 40 miles on pure electric power. I am meaning that many commuters would be able to get through a day without using gasoline. Everyone thought that the electric car was dead…
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Electric Cars and Hollywood Stars: Automotive Industry Education Foundation Joins the Party as the All-Electric Phoenix SUT is Unveiled
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Joseph Kenny, president of the Scottsdale-based Automotive Industry Education Foundation, joined celebrities Ed Begley Jr. and his wife Rachelle Carson, actress Daryl Hannah, Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, and more than 400 supporters, investors and environmentalists who gathered at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles this past week…
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Electric Cars: The Next Big Thing
By: Dave White on Tue. Mar. 6th, 2007, 7:56AM PSTURL: http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C11942/ Just in case all those stories about the Tesla and the GM Volt don’t drive the point home, let us officially announce that the electric car is back. The very fact that General Motors, the company that famously killed the alternative-fuel vehicle in the…
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CityCar Electric made by Media Lab
CityCar via MIT The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility – with weather protection, climate control and comfort, secure storage, and crash protection – in the cleanest and most economical way possible. It weighs less than a thousand pounds, parks in much…
