Network of electric vehicle charging stations on tap

Coulomb Technologies on Wednesday said it will build 4,600 electric vehicle charging stations in nine regions of the U.S., funded by $37 million in grants.

More than half of the charging stations in the program called ChargePoint America will go in public locations, such as overnight parking spaces, offices, or retail locations. About 2,000 going into people's homes as part of the purchase of an electric vehicle.

The goal of the charging network and others like it is to make electric vehicles more accessible to consumers, as these cars come to market in the coming months, said Richard Lowenthal, the CEO of Campbell, California-based Coulomb Technologies during a press conference.

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China to Aid Electric Car Buyers

In a bid to boost China’s electric and hybrid car industry, the country will begin subsidizing sales of battery-powered vehicles, according to the Wall Street Journal.

China will give buyers of electric vehicles up to 60,000 yuan ($8,800) and buyers of certain gasoline-electric hybrids will receive as much as 50,000 yuan, the Journal Reported.

The pilot program will begin this year in five cities: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Changchun, Shenzen and Hefei. According to the Journal, it’s likely that the subsidies will apply only to vehicles made in China, although that was not yet clear.


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China to Subsidize Electric Cars and Hybrids

The Chinese government appears determined to electrify transportation, and it is putting money in place alongside its rhetoric.

To that end, the Chinese Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday a pilot program in five cities to subsidize the purchase of electric and hybrid cars. It is unclear when the program will begin.

According to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, consumers in those urban areas will be able to get up to around $8,785 off the price of a battery car and about $7,320 off plug-in hybrids. The money will be paid directly to carmakers, which will reduce the vehicle price accordingly, the government said.

Nationwide, consumers will be able to access a much smaller subsidy of $439 if they buy fuel-efficient cars with engines under 1.6 liters.

Reuters reported that the government would subsidize the construction of charging stations and battery recovery networks in the five cities: Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Hefei and Changchun.

Directly subsidizing purchases could “jump start” the electric vehicle market in China, said Craig Giffi, an analyst at Deloitte.

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Powering up electric vehicles: benefits and pitfalls

The coming wave of battery-powered vehicles is good news -- a step toward addressing concerns about climate change and oil dependence. But electric vehicles also present new challenges for electricity providers, utility companies, smart grid and charging startups and traditional oil companies.
Converging factors, such as radical cost reductions in lithium-ion batteries, are pushing us toward an "electrification tipping point" when electric vehicles will become economically viable for the masses. By 2020 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids could account for nearly 10 per cent of new vehicle sales globally. By 2030 this figure could accelerate to about 30 per cent, with an additional 20 per cent of hybrid vehicles using batteries.
The market is still young, but automakers are committing to electric vehicle technology. Several electric vehicles will be introduced in the coming year, including Nissan's Leaf and the Chevy Volt.
Electric-powered vehicles will create significant growth across the entire transportation value chain, expected to reach nearly $300 billion by 2020, according to global management consultant firm PRTM (my employer). This rapidly growing market will drive a shift in revenue pools from natural resources like oil toward high-tech components like the battery.

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China to Subsidize Alternative Energy Car Purchases

June 1 (Bloomberg) -- China is subsidizing alternative- energy cars in five cities to increase their attractiveness for buyers to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and improve air quality.

The government will provide as much as 50,000 yuan ($7,320) for purchases of plug-in hybrid models, which run partly on gasoline, and as much as 60,000 yuan for cars powered only by batteries, a statement on the Ministry of Finance’s website said today. Car buyers in Shanghai, Changchun, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Hefei are eligible for the subsidies on a trial basis.

China, which became the world’s biggest car market last year, aims to increase the annual production capacity of alternative-energy vehicles to half a million units by 2011 as part of efforts to cut oil imports and rein in pollution.

“Government funding is a very strong factor in helping alternative energy car market growth, but this is only the first step in getting there,” Jacob George, China managing director at JD Power & Associates, the marketing information company, said in an interview today. “It’s also the investment in infrastructure to increase the receptivity of consumers.”

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GM to launch electric vehicles on its own

After passing on the official word that the Indian subsidiary of the American automaker General Motors will be ending its tie-up with Reva, the company further said that it will be developing the electric vehicles on its own at its Headquarters at Detroit.
The announcement came after the electric car company; Reva sold its majority stake to the Indian conglomerate, Mahindra & Mahindra. The India head of the GM’s operations, Karl Slym has recently said that the company does not see any value now in its agreement with Reva and would like to go alone in the electric car market.

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Electric vehicles “only as green as electricity powering them”

The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report identifying that if the UK is to meet its renewable energy targets and ensure a greener power supply to electric cars, a range of new low-carbon energy sources will be needed.
These include wind farms, tidal barrages and new nuclear power stations, claims the ‘Electric Vehicles: charged with potential' report, published last week (May 25).
The study investigates the implications of large-scale adoption of electric cars in Britain and looks at the challenge of ensuring that the electricity supply system can cope with charging "ten of millions" of vehicles while still reducing carbon emissions from power generation.

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Daimler, BYD join for electric cars

BYD Co., the Chinese automaker backed by billionaire Warren Buffett, and Daimler have set up a venture to develop electric cars in the world’s largest auto market.

Daimler, the world’s second-biggest manufacturer of luxury cars, and BYD will invest $88 million in the 50-50 partnership in China, the carmaker from Stuttgart, Germany, said in an e-mailed statement last week.

Daimler is pushing into electric-vehicle production in China to challenge luxury leader BMW, while the venture gives Shenzhen-based BYD access to Daimler’s technologies. Battery-powered electric vehicles may make up 3 percent of the more than 90 million cars sold globally by 2020, consulting company IHS Global Insight said.


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Reva gets a recharge

The electric car brand Reva may soon have a new logo which will include the name of Mahindra. But will rebranding alone help in creating mass appeal?
It took him six years to create a saleable, environment-friendly electric car, and almost 10 more years to make it the world’s single-largest selling model. Today, it’s probably the world’s largest selling electric car with little over 3,500 units sold in the last one decade. Chetan Maini, a technocrat entrepreneur, however, did not break even.
His company invested more than $50 million (around Rs 225 crore) to manufacture EVs, but saw limited returns due to the high cost of manufacturing. Maini, thus, could not lend Reva – India’s first electric car – a touch of mass appeal. Many factors worked against him. India, for one, does not have enough charging stations. Besides, his company did not have enough money to keep on pushing the product merely on its environment-friendly features.

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U.S. and China focus on hybrid, electric vehicles, expecting partner opportunities

INDIANAPOLIS, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of officials and entrepreneurs from China and the United States fixed their eyes on hybrid and electric vehicles on Friday, when the first U.S.-China Advanced Technology Vehicle Summit kicked off in Indianapolis.
The summit, which is hosted by the Energy Systems Network, a non-profit organization focused on growth and commercialization within the clean technologies and energy sectors, brought together a delegation of Chinese automakers and Indiana manufacturers of components for hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles to share information and explore potential business relationships that could result in new opportunities for Hoosier firms and future foreign investment in the state.
The Chinese delegation was led by Wang Chao, the Assistant Minister of Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and comprised by nearly 100 Chinese government officials and automotive executives coming from several Chinese top automakers and vehicle parts suppliers

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World's Hottest Electric Vehicles On Display at EP!C

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Nissan Smyrna Electric Vehicle Project To Create 1,500 Jobs In Tennessee

Deputy Secretary Poneman Attends Ground Breaking at Tennessee Advanced Vehicle Battery Plant.

The U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for Nissan North America’s advanced battery manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee.

This past January the Department closed a $1.4 billion loan with Nissan North America to retool the Smyrna factory to build advanced electric automobiles and an advanced battery manufacturing facility.

“I’m excited about the future we have begun to build here today — a future where America’s workers have good jobs, making clean cars that will reduce our dependence on oil and help us transition to a clean energy economy,” said Deputy Secretary Poneman.

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To launch Maxximo electric trucks by yr-end: Anand Mahindra

Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) has bought a majority stake in electric car company, Reva. The commercial vehicle major would now hold 55.2% in Reva via the stake sale and fresh equity infusion. M&M would invest USD 10 million in the electric car major and would rename thecompany as Mahindra Reva Electric.
A day after sealing the deal with Reva, Anand Mahindra, VC & MD, M&M explained his strategy to CNBC-TV18 of entering the electric car segment.


Q: What would this move mean for the Indian consumer?
A: I would say one has to view this acquisition as an acquisition of a competence, of a capability. Don’t focus on are we going into small cars and what’s in it right away for the consumer. Mahindra andMahindra as an automaker with global aspirations has to have the competence for alternate fuel technology. As you know yourself, you have been following the company for a long time, we have been putting our tentacles out in each possible area of technology.
As you know every year at the Auto Expo we showcase what progress we have made, whether they are on even the hydrogen combustion, three wheeler for example or biofuels which we have been following for a long time. I think our operating management led by Pawan felt very clearly that the investment in Reva would put us ahead of our planned trajectory and that’s why the acquisition made sense.
So you have to put yourself in our shoes and realise that a company of our aspirations must have the ability to play in the field of electric vehicles and that is essentially what we have acquired.


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M&M’s green move

If the future of vehicular motion is total electrification, the acquisition of electric carmaker Reva by utility vehicles major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) makes strategic sense. The move would also boost synergy, with M&M benefiting from Reva’s technology for electric variants of its three-wheeler and minitruck.
Reva, in turn, stands to gain from M&M’s marketing presence and strong dealer network. Opinion has it that sales of electric cars would touch 1.5-2 million globally within a decade. But others more sanguine say the percentage of electric cars could reach 25% in that period, driven by sustained technological improvements.
Now, Reva cars are green, environment-friendly and zero-emission vehicles, but the numbers on the road add up to only about 3,500 in 24 countries. The limited battery capacity, need for repeated charging and its modest seating space have all been a drag on Reva sales. But note that 45% of the energy released by electric-car batteries is spent on propulsion — it points at an efficiency level that is already between 10% and 30% higher that those in conventional internal-combustion engines.

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Ford Invests $135M In Green Parts For Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Ford Motor Company announced that it will invest $135 million in two Michigan factories to design, engineer and build key green vehicle parts for the next generation of hybrid-electric vehicles that go into production in 2012.

The investment will result in adding 170 jobs to its Rawsonville plant, while Engineers in Dearborn will design the battery packs and more than 50 engineers to its Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights in the next two years.

Ford would be pumping about $10 million at its Rawsonville components plant to produce lithium-ion battery packs for future hybrid vehicles, also moving its work to Michigan that is currently performed by Delphi in Mexico. About 40 new jobs will be created in the starting of 2012. As of now Ford employs about 780 at Rawsonville plant.

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Electric and Hybrid Cars Taking Off

The global market forelectric carsis ready to surge, proving skeptics wrong and leaving car companies scrambling to make them, the chief executive of Nissan told theWall Street Journal. Nissan will begin selling the all-electric Leaf sedan in December.
Nissan is trying to carve out a leadership position in the industry with electric vehicles. It plans to sell 50,00 electrics in the U.S., Japan and Europe in each of 2011 and 2012n, and then leap to 500,000 in 2013 when the Leaf will be profitable, according to the Journal.
Meanwhile Ford said it plans to make more of the components for its hybrid and electric vehicles in the U.S. as part of an effort to increase the number of low- or zero-emission models it offers over the next few years, reported the Journal. By 2020, the automaker expects that 10% to 25% of its global lineup will be such models.

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Terry McAuliffe firm buys electric car company

Terry McAuliffe is in the car business.

The former Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful last week paid $20 million for Hong Kong-based EuAuto Technology, which builds an electric vehicle called the MyCar.
MyCar is for people who need wheels to run errands or tool around the neighborhood.
"It's really a second car if you live in Washington," McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe bought MyCar through his McLean-based holding company, GreenTech Automotive. GreenTech will provide MyCar with capital and access to the U.S. market.
McAuliffe said if MyCar is approved by the U.S. regulators, it could be on sale next year.
MyCar can travel 70 miles on a single charge and has a top speed of 45 miles per hour.
The MyCar is not for highway travel, and is designed to sell as a second car for families. The MyCar will be priced between $13,000 and $16,000, McAuliffe said. It will take four hours to charge.
In addition to the MyCar, GreenTech is developing four highway-ready prototypes using European technology. Three of the vehicles are hybrids and one is electric. McAuliffe said GreenTech is scouting sites in Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia for a plant where it can manufacture his product line.

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