China has been pushing the production and adoption of electric vehicles and is set to continue doing so. By 2012, 25 pilot cities had promoted 27,432 new energy vehicles totally within two years after the subsidy policy was implemented, including 23,032 ones used in public services and 4,400 ones bought by individuals. In March, 2013,
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A123 Systems, LLC announced that its businesses focused on advanced batteries for electric grid, backup power and lead-acid replacements for commercial applications will be branded A123 Energy Solutions. This will allow the company to combine the activities of several previous groups of A123 Systems under one division. This new division, headquartered in Westborough Massachusetts, will
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Sacramento will be the host of hybrid cars, EVs and many new green technologies as the Green California Summit and Exposition takes hold of the Californian city. On Thursday and Friday, State and Consumer Services Agency Secretary, Anna Caballero, will participate as co-chair of the 7th annual Green California Summit and Exposition at Sacramento’s Convention
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Echo Automotive has completed last week the acquisition of Bright Automotive’s assets. Echo Automotive, Inc. announced April 11 the execution of a voluntary Exchange Agreement with Advanced Technical Asset Holdings (“ATAH”) through issuance and filing of a form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding this major event. Echo describes itself as a
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Yesterday in his proposed 2014 budget delivered to Congress, President Obama called for a sizable increase in research spending for alternative technology transportation, including additional help for electric vehicles. The goal is to cease the need to import foreign oil within the next 10 years. To jump start the initiative, the president called for a
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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced it has established the world’s first process to reuse rare earth metals extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries for new nickel-metal hydride batteries to recycle precious resources. Honda said that so far, it has been extracting an oxide containing rare earth metals from used nickel-metal hydride batteries at the plant of
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance sold a record 8,101,310 vehicles in 2012, representing one in 10 new cars sold worldwide. Most of all, the alliance sold 43,829 electric vehicles. According to Renault-Nissan, 2012 global sales of all zero-emission vehicles across the Alliance were 43,829 units. This is up 83.8 percent from 2011 as Nissan Leaf sales increased
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Yesterday, news agency Reuters published an article exploring the idea that electric cars could be “running out of juice again?” The article was spurred by comments done by industry insiders and by the 2012 hard sales data released during January. The authors are wondering – given that automotive executives across the world are seriously considering
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We keep hearing it, and numbers don’t lie: the market for hybrid-electric and alternative fueled vehicles is growing, and in a recent data mining exercise, Ward’s Auto commented on the continued expansion. Most noteworthy perhaps, is from 2011 to 2012 a 64-percent spike in U.S. consumer sales of hybrids took place with sales, according to
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It’s been several years since the Tesla Roadster was introduced, and two years since the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf were launched. Other electric vehicles have come along as well, but as of last month, the U.S. market had purchased fewer than 46,000 electrified plug-in cars this year out of 13 million total vehicles. In
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