Thursday, 5 August 2010

EVHUB will be media partner to EV Battery Tech USA

EVHUB has signed deal with "EV Battery Tech USA". 

About EV battery Tech: 
September 21-22, 2010
Detroit Marriott, Troy, Michigan
The EV Battery Tech: Global Cost Reduction Initiative is the only event where senior executives from vehicle manufacturers (including Nissan, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Ford) gather to explain how their latest technical research on EV batteries will help drive down the cost of the battery in order to accelerate the commercialization of mass market EVs.
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Don't get left behind - Attend Future of Electric Vehicles USA

Future of Electric Vehicles 2010 

Don't get left behind as the total market for electric vehicles doubles that for cars. The total market will increase five fold in the next ten years. 

The Future of Electric Vehicles conference covers all types of EVs including land, sea and air - focusing on future breakthroughs.

The components, for example have much in common across all of them, other EV events do little to reflect this.

Many new technologies will be announced with presentations from all over the world.
 
Over 40 speakers include:
Kleenspeed Technologies (200mph Formula1 pure EV) will speak and host a visit.


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Wednesday, 4 August 2010

GM invests in electric vehicle start-up Bright

General Motors has invested in electric vehicle company Bright Automotive, marking the first investment by the auto giant's venture-capital arm.
The companies said Tuesday that the investment by recently created GM Ventures for an undisclosed amount will give GM a minority stake in Anderson, Ind.-based Bright and accelerate Bright's plans to manufacture a plug-in hybrid van that can get up to 100 miles per gallon.
The prototype of bright's idea plug-in hybrid utility van.
The prototype of Bright's Idea plug-in hybrid utility van.
(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET )

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Should the Government Subsidize Electric Cars?

Last week, General Motors revealed that its new plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt would cost at least $41,000. With a $7,500 government credit, that price will drop to around $33,500. That price, however, still puts it out of reach for many Americans. Via Slate, Charles Lane wrote a scathing article last week about the government consequently providing a pricey subsidy to wealthy Americans. But Daniel Gross, also through Slate, says that the process of innovation often requires such government assistance, and the poor will ultimately be better off because of it. Who has it right?
Here's the heart of Gross's argument for why the credit makes sense:
We're in a period of slack demand and low capacity utilization, with lots of empty factories, buildings, and stores. Companies are sitting on hoards of cash. In a time like this, they need special inducements--bribes, incentives, tax breaks--to make large new investments. In such a climate, the government has to give industry a nudge to get off its rear. And there are signs that the $2.4 billion in grants that the Department of Energy made to spur electric vehicle production is doing just that.

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Public plug-in locations for electric cars planned

Backers of electric cars are showing where drivers will be able to charge up around San Diego County in an effort to battle “range anxiety” — the fear that an electric car’s battery will run out of power and strand the driver.
In maps they are releasing today, local government, utility and corporate officials have identified which neighborhoods will be the first to get public chargers that are funded in part through a federal grant.
“It’s the basic infrastructure that helps support the expansion of electric cars inCalifornia ,” said county Supervisor Ron Roberts, a member of the California Air Resources Board.
The officials want people who are thinking of getting an electric car to see where they can go without fear of running out of juice.
They’re also showing off the chargers, to be branded “Blink” by Ecotality, a San Francisco company that is leading the federally funded effort.
The chargers are coming because San Diego is one of the first regions in the country getting electric cars in a nationwide pilot project.

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Electric Vehicle Choices Expand

One of my basic assumptions about our energy future is that most automobiles will eventually be electrified. That's based on extensive scenario work done with my former colleagues at Texaco, Inc. in the late 1990s. Nothing I've seen since then has changed my view on that. However, vehicle electrification is not necessarily synonymous with "electric vehicle" (EV) in its common usage to connote a car powered only by electricity stored in batteries. It's a much broader category, covering all three electrification options now slated to be available to consumers by year-end: hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and "pure" EVs. It also encompasses fuel cell vehicles, though these have yet to move beyond the test-market stage. The characteristics of the three current varieties of electrified vehicles differ in important ways that will affect both their impact on our energy consumption and their success as consumer products.


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India’s EV market in desperate need of a charge

While the sight of this lilliputian on four wheels buzzing around may lighten almost everyone’s mood, the all-electric Reva car is, unfortunately, failing to change both mind-sets and the industry. Since it's launch in India in 2001, the car has produced close to just 4,000 Reva cars from its Bangalore plant, which has an annual production capacity of 6,000. 


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Zotye Auto becomes first in China to sell EV to individual buyers

Li Ziqiang, a Hangzhou resident, bought the purely electric car last week - PhotoProvided to China Daily
Few have heard of Zotye Auto or its first all-electric vehicle 5008EV. But the company has now gained the distinction of being the first Chinese automaker to launch an all-electric vehicle for individual buyers in China.
Li Ziqiang, a Hangzhou resident, bought the 5008EV from the Zhejiang-based private manufacturer on July 26 after leasing a 2008EV model based on the company's small SUV for six months. In January this year, Zotye had put 100 units of its 2008EV model up for lease in Hangzhou to be tested for daily use.

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Sunday, 1 August 2010

Biofuels left out as automakers go electric

In the race to replace oil, electric cars seem to be leaving biofuels in the dust.

Five years ago, biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel looked like the best bet for breaking the world's addiction to oil. Biorefineries turning corn into ethanol sprouted across the Midwest, while startups trying to make fuel from wood chips or grass soaked up venture capital. Big automakers considered electric cars a lost cause.
Now the situation has been reversed. The buzz surrounding electric transportation has never been louder, while the biofuel industry struggles to regain momentum after two brutal years.
By the end of 2010, two global automakers will start selling plug-in cars priced for the mass market. Nissan will introduce the all-electric Leaf, while General Motors offers the Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid that runs solely on batteries for the first 40 miles of every trip. Automakers as different as Ford, Toyota and Porsche all have plans to go electric.





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GSA adding 5,600 hybrid vehicles, but higher cost remains issue

A massive fleet of new hybrid vehicles is arriving at federal agencies this summer as part of an unprecedented effort to offload the government's least fuel-efficient cars and trucks.
The General Services Administration earlier this year purchased more than 5,600 hybrid vehicles, which pair an electric motor with a traditional gasoline-powered engine. The move single-handedly doubled the government's inventory of hybrid vehicles.
GSA is leasing the new hybrid vehicles to agencies as they trade in their older vehicles, which GSA will sell at auction.
GSA received the first batch of vehicles about a month ago and will continue to receive new vehicles throughout the summer as they roll off the assembly line, said Bill Toth, director of GSA's Office of Motor Vehicle Management.
The new vehicles will go a long way toward helping agencies cut gasoline consumption and reduce their carbon footprints. Nearly all of the hybrid vehicles GSA purchased are 2010 Ford Fusions, a midsized sedan that gets 39 mph on city streets and highways combined — second in class only to the Toyota Prius. The Fusion emits 4.8 tons of carbon dioxide annually, compared with 7.5 tons for the nonhybrid version.

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Nation's first electric car sold to individual

Last week little-known carmaker Zotye Auto became the first Chinese company to sell a purely electric car to an individual buyer.
Li Ziqiang, a Hangzhou resident, bought the 5008EV from the Zhejiang-based private manufacturer last Monday after leasing a 2008EV model based on the company's small SUV for six months.
In January this year, Zotye put 100 of its 2008EV model up for lease in Hangzhou to test them in daily use under actual road conditions.
Li paid 2,500 yuan a month to lease the car that would sell for more than 200,000 yuan - far more expensive than its 60,000-yuan petrol-powered cousin made by Zotye.
He said the car only cost him about 100 yuan a month for electricity. He made the decision to buy one after he learned about a government subsidy for new-energy vehicles, said a report of Qianjiang Evening News, a local newspaper in Hangzhou.
Eventually Li paid 108,000 yuan for the car, - not even half of its sticker price - thanks to the central government's subsidy of 60,000 yuan and an allowance offered by the Hangzhou city government.






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Green cars drive into green Shanghai Expo

A brighter vehicle life in 2030 was shown in SAIC-GM Automotive Exhibit Hall in World Expo: "zero emission", zero traffic accident; away from dependence on petroleum, away from traffic jam; automatic drive, even the blind are able to drive -- the green cars shown and running in Expo park make us believe that maybe all of them will be true.
I. April 11, the Expo Park public-traffic program was published. In the Expo Park, two bus lines among of the three adopted pure electric buses, and another one used super capacitance bus, meanwhile, two tourist lines were equipped with hydrogen fuel tour bus. After the Expo Park was open, bus lines would be added to 6 from the current 3 ones, and the total running distance reached 19 kilometers.
On the same day, the concept vehicle, "Leaf", researched and developed independently by SAIC, made its world debut in SAIC-GM Automotive Exhibit Hall in the Expo Park. Besides fresh design, "Leaf", with a giant "green leaf" on its head, steps across "zero emission" and realizes "negative emission", and shows people the brighter city traffic life in 20 years.


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Auto suppliers' dilemma: Which e-vehicle to plug into

In June, Jeneanne Hanley, head of business development and strategy at Southfield-based
Lear Corp
.'s hybrid and electric vehicle business unit, took part in a meeting that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
A customer was making a pitch, hoping to buy Lear's parts.
The potential customer, one of dozens of automotive startups that aim to sell electric vehicles, was at Lear to “give a presentation to us as to why they think they'll be successful,” Hanley recalled.
The proliferation of alternative-vehicle startups poses difficult questions to suppliers. Which ones will survive and therefore pay their bills, and which won't?
And how many engineering resources should a supplier devote to these new customers, helping them integrate the supplier's parts into unproven vehicles?

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Troy Wolverton test-drives the all-electric Nissan Leaf and plug-in Chevy Volt

Who knew that electric cars could be fun to drive and practical at the same time?
Those were my impressions last week after test-driving the all-electric Nissan Leaf and the plug-in Chevrolet Volt, two new cars that will reach showroom floors later this year. The Leaf was zippy, spacious and fun. The Volt felt like a standard family car updated for the 21st century with high-tech features you can control through a smartphone.
I liked them both but for different reasons, and would consider buying either of them if I were in the market for a car.
The Volt and the Leaf represent the vanguard of a new generation of electric cars, but each has its own take on what that means.
The Leaf is all-electric, which means you never have to worry about burning gasoline or having to deal with the maintenance issues of a combustion engine, such as changing the oil or replacing the spark plugs or timing belts. The trade off is that it has a range of only 100 miles — less if you drive fast or run the heater or air conditioner, both of which draw power from the battery.
And once you drain the battery, recharging it is not as easy and quick as filling up at a gas station. Instead, you'll typically have to wait eight to 20 hours for the batteries to recharge, depending on the type of outlet you use. (Recharging can be much quicker — as little as 30 minutes or so to get an 80 percent charge — at one of the relatively few fast-charging stations.)



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Saturday, 31 July 2010

Electric cars: Considering a Volt or Leaf? Lease it.


President Obama in electric car
By taking the wheel of a gleaming black Chevy Volt and driving all of 10 feet Friday, President Obama may not have convinced anyone to buy into the auto industry's new experiment.

But he did drive home one point: Mass-produced electric cars are coming. Soon.
This fall, the Volt and Nissan's Leaf will face off with dueling plug-in technologies. Next year, Ford, Toyota, and just about every other major manufacturer are likely to unveil their own electric cars. Is it time to consider buying one?
The new generation of plug-in cars come with all sorts of unknowns. How good is the technology? Will the batteries last? Will people want an expensive electric car (the Volt) that can replace their current vehicle? Or a cheaper specialized version (the Leaf) with a more limited range?
Perhaps the biggest risk of all is that gasoline prices would fall, making electric motors more expensive to run than conventional combustion engines.

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Toyota teams up with Tesla to electrify Rav4

Toyota and electric vehicle upstart Tesla Motors will work together to develop an electric version of Toyota's Rav4 medium SUV, with plans to begin selling it in the US in 2012.
Tesla already is working on the electric power system for the Rav4. The electric carmaker has built one prototype for testing and plans to deliver a fleet of them for Toyota to evaluate later this year.
The companies announced a partnership in May to develop and build electric cars at a recently closed automotive factory in the San Francisco Bay area.
Tesla, which last month began selling shares to the public, said it hoped to drive down the cost of electric vehicles so they become within reach of mainstream buyers.
Toyota has said it was investing US$50 million ($70 million) in Tesla, with the electric car company buying the New United Motor Manufacturing factory, known as Nummi, in Fremont, California, where the Tesla Model S electric sedan will be built.

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Soon, used electric car batteries to generate cheap household power

Owners of electric cars might soon be able to use their old car battery to run their household electricity, according to a leading Japanese automaker.
Nissan”s senior vice-president of product planning, Andy Palmer, said the company – which is set to launch its Leaf electric small car in Australia in 2012 – is working on a business model whereby people use their old electric vehicle battery to generate cheap household power.

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SEOUL TO INSTALL OVER 100 EV CHARGERS TO PROMOTE ECO-FRIENDLY ELECTRIC VEHICLES

The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to install more than 100 EV charging points until the end of this year.
"We are establishing advanced operation system to compete with EV charging infrastructure established in other advanced cities," said Director Lee In-Keun for Air Quality Management Division at the government.
In an effort to promote the use of the eco-friendly vehicles, the city government is working to secure enough parking spaces to accommodate minimum two electric vehicles and at least one charging station at each of Seoul 25 district ("gu") offices.
In recognition that lack of EV charging facilities is the biggest challenge in promoting the eco-friendly vehicle, the city government, on May 28, signed a joint agreement with three large Seoul-based retailers.

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All about green cars - and not just expensive ones

I love how my Tesla goes from 0 to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds. All right, technically, it's not my Tesla since it costs $109,000, but it was for 15 minutes Friday.
I had a chance to test-drive the all-electric car, courtesy of Tesla Store Chicago. The two-seater sports roadster resembles a vintage Porsche with one big exception - it runs on a 990-pound battery with a 245-mile range per charge.
It's an odd experience driving a car with a single-speed gearbox, meaning you don't feel the gears shifting, but it's easy to get used to. The Tesla has a regenerative brake system that kicks in when you ease off the accelerator, which slows down the vehicle eliminating the need for excessive pumping.
And the 0 to 60 feature? As good as a roller coaster.
Tesla's coming out with a sedan priced around $50,000 in 2012 with similar features - I can just see the acceleration factor coming into play at the mall parking lot.
Typical buyers range from collectors to sports car fanatics to people who want an alternate fuel vehicle, Tesla Store Chicago General Manager Dustin Krause said.

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EVCA.OB - NASA Showcase Electric Vehicles, CLNE - Expands the Use of Natural Gas - StockHotTips.com

EVCARCO (OTC.BB:EVCA) NASA's Kennedy Space Center held a series of events to showcase electric vehicles and electric drive Systems. The events fell along side Earth day events such as the Beach cleanup as well as educational programs. EVCA, a Texas based Corporation which manages several electric vehicle brands, provided the latest electric vehicles to NASA staff. The event allowed NASA staff to learn about electric vehicles and their advancements. The program showcased the latest in mature, all electric vehicle technology, innovations in renewable energy concepts, and market ready alternative fuel technology.

EVCA and NASA-KSC transportation department showcased the following vehicles: -NEV- Wheego All Electric Vehicle, produced in California- Production model -Highway Speed- Lithium Smart car- Prototype -Tazzari-Zero All Electric Lithium Powered Italian Roadster- Production model -UTV-Mil Spec Vehicle- Prototype EVCA provided a delegation to discuss the advances in the electric car market such as: -CTO, Technology expert Eduard Prous -COO, Operations expert Scott O'Neal -Strategy expert, Richard Griffiths For full article: CLICK HERE ________________________________________ Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq:CLNE) Legislation being introduced in the US Senate by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and intended for introduction in the US House of Representatives by Ways & Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI), will benefit the deployment and use of natural gas vehicles and fuel in the United States, according to CLNE.

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