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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
Nissan: 500,000 Electric Cars by 2012 – News – Automotive Fleet
Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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I was talking to an American friend the other day who had recently taken delivery of their new Tesla Roadster. He was really enthused about it. What was the thing which impressed him most?
He took the car for a spin over the weekend. He went over 100 miles on the journey. When [...]
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Here is the chatstream from yesterday’s Energy & Sustainability show (above) – there were a couple of technical hitches which I have now sorted out and which shouldn’t present problems next week:
03:31 Tom Raftery: Do we have audio & video
03:32 cgarvey: yup, both working
03:34 SukiFuller: I’m gonna be listening but not able to [...]
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I have been a fan of Better Place and their unique model around electric vehicles since I watched Shai Agassi’s presentation at the DLD conference in January 2008.
If you are unfamiliar with the Better Place model, they looked at the idea of electric vehicles and people’s ‘range anxiety’ and asked how best to solve it. [...]
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I was delighted to see news today that the Canadian province of Ontario is the latest to sign up to roll out Better Place’s car charging infrastructure.
Better Place is a California-based, startup that aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles. Typically [...]
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Episode 8 of the GreenMonk Podcasts – 37 mins 32 secs
My guest on this podcast is Greg Cesiel. Greg is the Program Director for the Chevrolet Volt. The Chevrolet Volt is an electric vehicle from General Motors, expected to begin hitting showrooms in the US in 2010.
From the Wikipedia entry:
The company has [...]
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Image from the Andy Grove article in American.com
I wrote a post about Plug-In hybrid vehicles and their potential value to the grid the other day.
Since then I have seen several other articles published from eminent sources which seem to back the thesis that electric vehicles are the way to go.
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, [...]
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