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Think in trouble as Norwegian EV market booms

Plugs and Cars

Think, maker of the Think City, is in trouble, Norwegian business newspaper E24 reports. At the same time, sales of electric cars are booming in Norway. The iMiev has become the fastest selling car in its segment, beating out gas vehicles.

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Who wants a Th!nk City?

Plugs and Cars

The financial crisis has hurt those that sell gas guzzlers and electric cars. nk City in the U.S. My first electric car was a Th!nk nk City so I'm biased. nk City, sign up by clicking here. Tags: electricaid.org think city. Automakers the world over, large and small, are in the crapper.

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Audi A2 E-Tron restomod EV remixes forward-thinking city car

Baua Electric

Audi A2 E-Tron concept The hatchback is powered by a single electric motor from an Audi Q8 E-Tron, tuned for 197 hp and 261 pound-feet of torque. Those two new EVs share the Premium Platform Electric (PPE) that’s key to Audi’s strategy to focus primarily on upmarket models—the opposite direction of vehicles like the A2.

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President Obama Awards $2.3B for Tax Credits for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs; GE Gets Largest Battery-related Award

Green Car Congress

At full capacity the plant could produce approximately 10 million cells capable of generating 900 megawatt-hours of energy per year—the equivalent of the battery power required for 45,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with an 80-mile range or enough energy to support 1,000 GE Evolution Series hybrid locomotives. Aerovironment, Inc.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Some of the first plug-in electric passenger vehicles are slated to roll onto U.S. For all the fanfare, sales of electric cars are currently negligible (outside of golf courses, that is). How many plug-in electric vehicles does President Barack Obama wish to see on U.S. Which electric-car developer counts former U.

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Tesla Powered Th!nks?

Plugs and Cars

Michael Kanellos over at CNetNews.com reports from the recent Clean-Tech Investor Summit that Tesla Motors will be selling its battery packs to other electric car companies. A certain unnamed Scandinavian electric car company has become a customer," he said. As you can see in the film Who Killed the Electric Car? ,

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. We'll also be taking Burning Man art projects off petroleum generators by switching them to solar electricity. Google Guys Th!

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