Electric vehicles will take part in Fourth of July parade in C-U

CHAMPAIGN – Folks intrigued by innovative electric vehicles can see three of them Sunday in the Fourth of July Parade in Champaign-Urbana.

The most unusual is the TW4XP electric vehicle, made by Fine Mobile of Germany. That vehicle recently qualified as one of 15 finalists in the Progressive Automotive X-Prize competition in Michigan. The competition pits super fuel-efficient vehicles against each other.

The three-wheeled TW4XP can go as fast as 70 miles per hour and gets 100 miles per gallon, according to Martin Moscheid, the chief executive officer of Fine Mobile. His brother, Wolfgang, will drive the vehicle in Sunday's parade.

Parade-goers can also see a TWIKE, driven by Matt Childress of Champaign and made by the same German company. About 960 of those vehicles have been sold worldwide, most of them in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Twenty or so are in the United States.

The third electric vehicle will be the EC3 prototype developed by Sugar Rides, a local company co-founded by Randy Reisinger, Bryan Wilcox, Mercedes Mane and Keeley Kabala.

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IT was a simple yet brilliant idea, and it quickly swept the world. In 1932, Ford designer Lewis Bandt attached the front of a car to the back of a truck to create what he christened the ''utility vehicle''.

Almost 80 years later, the ute remains as popular as ever - which may be a bit of a problem, as far as Lewis Bandt's great-nephew is concerned.

Adam Bandt, the Greens candidate for the federal seat of Melbourne, wants to ease Australians out of their petrol cars and into electric vehicles. The Greens, chasing the balance of power in the Senate and a historic victory in the lower house, Labor-held seat of Melbourne, today unveil a policy to promote the use of electric cars in Australia, a move they say will produce a ''massive'' reduction in carbon pollution and free Australia from energy dependence.

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PETITION IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC & NATION AS A WHOLE

A few manufacturers as well as assemblers have begun marketing electric bi wheelers in India, with only one manufacturer for electric cars. However, owing to limitations in range of travel, power & transmission response, these are not popular although these save fast depleting fossil fuel.

While viewing pages of www.interchina-industry.com  I found there are electric bikes with motor up to 3500 watt & even with 750watt motor & 72 volt input current, 65kms maximum speed, 120kms range of travel per charge, 150kg of load carrying capacity are available costing only USD 400 (Rs.23500) FOB.

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Austin, Texas, and New York will be among the first cities in the U.S. where the Chevy Volt plug-in electric vehicle will hit the road.

General Motors is expected Thursday to announce that a first run of 8,000 cars will be made available in a handful of cities,The Detroit News reported Thursday.

The announcement is expected to come from GM CEO Edward Whitacre, who is set to address the Austin Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

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AMP electric car advances to finals

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AMP's black Saturn is one of eight vehicles to advance to the finals of the global competition. It will compete in a category to inspire development of alternative-fuel vehicles capable of achieving the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon.

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Swiss project brings electric car to Alpine tourism

MEIRINGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - A pair of sturdy goats led 10 cows with regional and national flags tied to horns and bridles up toward the mountains this week at the launch of a new Swiss eco-project.

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On June 29th 2010,  European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani handed a European Commission mandate for the development of the relevant standard for electric vehicles chargers to the President of CEN-CENELEC David Dossett, CEN-CENELEC´s Director General Elena Santiago Cid and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) General Assembly Chair John Philips. These new standards are aimed to ensure that all types of electric vehicles and their batteries are charged both safely and easily in all EU Member States.

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Washington to build “electric highway”

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The highway stations will support plug-in electric vehicles along the full 276 miles of I-5 between Washington’s borders north and south. The state estimates that nearly 300,000 electric cars will be on Washington’s roads during the next ten years. Right now, almost half of Washington’s emissions come from standard cars.

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The United States will lead the way

Pike Research, a market research and consulting firm that focuses on global clean technology markets, conducted a study that predicts 670,000 fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) will sell annually by 2020.
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Factory opens in Finland to supply lithium-ion batteries for up to 3,000 electric vehicles

The engineering and construction company M+W Group has successfully completed its first order to build a lithium-ion battery plant in Varkaus (Finland). The plant, which was commissioned by the Finnish battery manufacturer, European Batteries Oy, has now started full volume production.

The new factory in Varkaus has a surface area of 10,000 square metres and manufactures large, lithium-ion based battery packs and systems with an annual production capacity of around 100 megawatt/hours. This means that around 3,000 full-electric cars can be fitted with lithium-ion batteries, although a possible tripling of production is already planned.

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Global leading Electric Vehicle to Appear in Shenzhen

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Held once a year and a half, the World Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition, the largest and most powerful international summit and exposition in nowadays’ electric vehicle and new energy auto fields, is held in turn in Asia-pacific, American and European countries, which will unite the authoritative academic groups of the holding countries to submit applications to the World Electric Vehicle Association and can hold the exposition after approved.

The exposition will exhibit the latest technology fruits and its future development trend of each country with the whole vehicle, auto components and basic supporting facilities.

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Man charged up about plug-in cars

In the parking garage near the South Carolina Aquarium, a man pulling out of his parking spot asked James Poch a question recently about his modified Toyota Prius

"You really get 100 miles to the gallon in that thing?"

James Poch, whose nonprofit organization Plug In Carolina wants up to 14 electric car-charging stations installed in downtown Charleston by December, gets that question all the time. His answer is "yes."

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James Poch, executive director of Plug In Carolina, hopes that parking garages will be sites for future electric car-charging stations.

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Electric cars provide future transportation needs

My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we'd have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I'm sad that the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico hasn't spurred Washington to more vigorously promote America's exit from this curse.

The fault may lie with President Obama's timidity, a public scared by major new government programs or fossil-fuel interests flashing their campaign dough. Probably it's all three, but the bottom line is this: An all-out effort to unchain America from hydrocarbons is essential to national security, a healthy environment and economic prosperity in the 21st century. But it's not politically possible.

And so we must look at what's passable. Fortunately, there's one piece to the escape strategy that business leaders, military brass and the buying public all like — and would create jobs. Most importantly, it has bipartisan support in Congress.

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With I.P.O., Tesla Bets on Electric Car’s Future

As Tesla Motors begins selling stock to the public on Tuesday, the offering’s success depends on how much investors are willing to bet on a car company that has never made a profit and expects to lose money until at least 2012.
Tesla will be the first automaker to go public since the Ford Motor Company held its initial public offering in 1956. It expects the stock sale to raise up to $185 million, The Associated Press reports.
The start-up company, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., believes Americans’ taste in cars is changing. Most analysts agree that electric cars like Tesla’s will catch on as gas prices rise and environmental worries mount.
But Tesla faces bigger questions. It has lost $290.2 million since it was founded in 2003 and has not had a profitable quarter.
It does not expect that to change until it starts selling its next vehicle, a four-door electric sedan called the Model S, in large numbers. That is not scheduled “until 2012, or possibly later,” according to its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Valley has become hub for electric vehicles

With Tesla Motors leading the way, Silicon Valley has become a hub for electric vehicles. It is also home to some of the top companies working on the infrastructure to keep the cars running and on the road.

Former Brocade CEO Greg Reyes was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a securities fraud case that emerged as the centerpiece of the stock-option backdating scandal that rocked Silicon Valley in the middle part of last decade.

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London gears up for electric vehicles

25,000 charge points to be in place in capital by 2015

On the day that London has been branded as having the poorest air quality in Europe, Transport for London has unveiled its plan to ramp up the use of electric transport in the capital.

The plan appears geared towards electric cars - 1,000 of which are set to become part of TfLs fleet in the next few years – and the move will see the introduction of 1,600 charge points across London by next year and 25,000 within five years. At that point no Londoner will be further than a mile from a charge point.

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Tesla IPO: Will build electric cars for $178 million

Tesla Motors, whose $109,000 electric Roadster is vividly familiar to anyone who’s ever picked up a car magazine (or, recently, a business one) is trying to go public and raise $178 million (up from $100 million). My guess: They’ll do it, because Tesla is a very sexy business, with a great image. Who wouldn’t want to tell people at cocktail parties that they’re an investor in Tesla?

The harder part will be getting the company out of the high-end luxury niche it is in now. Tesla’s strategy is clear enough: It’s rolling out the Model S at $49,900 (inclusive of a $7,500 federal tax credit) late next year as a 2012 model, and with the money that better-selling sedan brings in will then prepare an even-more-affordable third car. At that point, a publicly traded Tesla Motors will go mainstream and get out of the niche.

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