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Norway-based Eltek Valere will deliver battery chargers to THINKCity. The THINKCity is being produced in Valmet, Finland, and now is ready for orders. Its compact design will fit in to any free space in an electrical or plug-in hybrid vehicle. Eltek Valere’s Chief Marketing Officer Morten Schøyen.
The ThinkCity, which registered 102 units in February 2011 as courtesy vehicles for the Norauto centers, is no longer on sale. Hybrid vehicles represented 0.7% of the market in February, with 1,174 registrations. Gasoline-engined vehicle lost 4 share points in the month, while diesels gained 4 points to reach 73.6%.
The index was compiled for THINK by ASG Renaissance, a market research and business services firm located in Dearborn, Mich. The US EV-ready index mirrors one THINK developed for targeting markets in Europe, which recognized Oslo, Copenhagen and Amsterdam as the top-three markets. —Richard Canny.
In January, THINK North America announced a new manufacturing facility in Elkhart, Indiana, and recently completed the initial phase of due diligence for a low-cost, long-term loan with the US Department of Energy (DOE) to help fund the North American expansion. This is a seminal event for THINK.
My first electric car was a ThinkCity, produced when the company was owned by Ford. This "smarter than Smart" city car was a revelation to me when I leased it in 2001. and the story is told as well in Sherry Boschert's book Plug-in Hybrids. One such protest is documented in the film Who Killed the Electric Car?
kwh battery pack from an Audi Q7 plug-in hybrid (a model not sold in the U.S.) The post Audi A2 E-Tron restomod EV remixes forward-thinkingcity car appeared first on Bauaelectric EV News. was installed under the cargo floor and provides an estimated 129 miles of range (likely based on the European WLTP testing cycle).
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.
Conventional hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have been on sale in the US for more than ten years; new vehicle hybrid sales in 2010 were approximately 2.5%. ThinkCity EV. Current federal government policies, investments, research and development, and demonstration efforts supporting the deployment of EVs. Nissan LEAF EV.
The president is hoping to use incentives to get one million plug-in hybrid vehicles to consumers by 2015. Plug-in hybrids differ from hybrids on the road today in that they can go longer distances on battery power and can be recharged via electrical outlets. A: Think Global’s ThinkCity. Two million.
The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. I hope Google is realizing that their plug-in hybrid fleet could probably mostly be all-electric cars.
Last week we told you how Think had expanded to Spain and now the Norwegian company has made several additional announcements at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Norway. It confirmed that the ThinkCity has been granted the first ever pan-European homologation certificate for an electric vehicle. nk CityThinkThinkCity.
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Of course, EVs that arent designed for battery swaps wont use it, and plug-in hybrids wont need it. The other proposal that makes some sense is adding on-the-fly charging to carpool/hybrid lanes on highways that many states already have. Battery swapping wouldnt make economic sense without a considerable degree of standardization.
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