Monday 7 June 2010

GM to launch Chevrolet Volt in 2011

GM, after the split with Reva electric in India, will delay its launch of electric vehicles. Earlier, the company planned to sell the electric vehicles from December 2010 onwards.

The American car maker informed that they will sell the Chevrolet Volt from December this year in U.S. and from 2011 in India.


Chevrolet Volt is an electric vehicle which uses an internal combustion engine to recharge the battery. GM expects to sell the electric vehicles at the rate of 4000-5000 units per annum.

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Soon, electric-powered trucks!

Washington, June 07 (ANI): After scooters, electric-poweredtrucksmay soon hit the road.

The global market for hybrid medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses is set to increase from 9,000 vehicles in 2010 to more than 100,000 vehicles in 2015, according to a report by Pike Research.


Bill Van Amburg, the senior vice president of CALSTART and the program executive of the Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF), claims hybrid systems can be effective in reduction of the fuel cost in trucking industry.

"Whether it happens tomorrow or in five years, we know [fuel] prices are going to go up, and it's going to go up pretty significantly," National Geographic News quoted him, as saying.

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Coulomb Technologies to install 4,600 electric vehicle charging stations

There's more good news for electric-vehicle enthusiasts.
Coulomb Technologies, a Campbell, Calif., startup that is a leading maker of electric-vehicle charging stations, recently announced that it plans to install more than 4,600 charging stations in nine metropolitan regions across the United States.
The $37 million "ChargePoint America" program is being funded in part by a $15 million Department of Energy grant. More than 1,000 new public charging stations will be installed by December, with the remaining 3,600 to be installed by October 2011.
The number of stations per city has not yet been determined, but California is expected to get nearly a third of the total.

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