Green Automotive Hosts Event to Showcase Electric Vehicles
Apr 11, 2011
COMPTON, Calif.--Green Automotive Company Corporation (GACR.PK) announced today that it hosted an event at StarPoint USAââ¬â¢s distribution center located in Compton, California to showcase its most recent shipment of electric vehicles, including the new Multi-Purpose Vehicle (ââ¬ÅMPVââ 0;¬??? ... Continue reading
Freescale Semiconductor and Fuji Electric Partner to Increase Efficiency of Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Apr 11, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas--Freescale Semiconductor has entered into a strategic alliance with Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fuji Electric Holdings Co., Ltd., to collaborate on insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) technology and products for hybrid electric and electric vehicles (HEV and EV). Wor ... Continue reading
Apr 11, 2011
PR Newswire CINCINNATI, April 11, 2011 CINCINNATI, April 11, 2011 -- AMP Holding Inc. (OTCBB and OTCQB: AMPD), a company engaged in the emission-free electrification of OEM vehicles, today announced it will drive its AMP Electric Equinox in the EDTA Innovation Motorcade in Washington, DC on April 19, 2011. AMP visits o ... Continue reading
Electric-Vehicle Technology Accelerates Toward Tipping Point Says Detroit News
Apr 11, 2011
Washington DC April 11, 2011; The AIADA newsletter reported when oil hit a record price of $147 a barrel in July 2008, it was a game-changing moment that sparked a serious push to create electric cars and hybrid electric engines that could help wean Americans off oil. Today, reports The Detroit News, crude is back over ... Continue reading
Mitsubishi Motors to Display the Mitsubishi Concept Global Small at Auto Shanghai 2011
Apr 10, 2011
Mitsubishi Concept Global Small compact car for China debut at the Auto Shanghai to be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center for April 19 through April 28 (Press days for April 19-20, General exhibition dates for April 20-28). Mitsubishi Compact Global Small (show model), is a concept car based on the feat ... Continue reading
Apr 9, 2011
PR Newswire HOUSTON, April 4, 2011 HOUSTON, April 4, 2011 -- While many students spent the weeks and months leading up to spring break preparing for papers and midterm exams, five ambitious student teams from Houston geared up for another important test taking place April 14-17, 2011 on the streets of downtown at Disco ... Continue reading
Apr 8, 2011
DALLAS--AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) today announced that it has joined forces with NRG Energy, Inc. to expand the privately funded, comprehensive eVgosm electric vehicle (EV) charging ââ¬Åecosystemââ ;¬??? launched first in Houston to EV drivers in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) market, the fourth-largest me ... Continue reading
Apr 8, 2011
PR Newswire Apr. 8 What: Karl Stracke, Chief Executive Officer, Opel/Vauxhall and General Chair, SAE 2011 World Congress, to announce the first phase of a unique engineering competition which provides college students the opportunity to design and build vehicles using advanced propulsion technologies that reduce the en ... Continue reading
Apr 8, 2011
DEERFIELD, Ill.--Walgreens today helped launch the nationââ¬â¢s first privately funded and comprehensive electric vehicle charging network with an initial station at the Walgreens drugstore at Belt Line Road and Montfort Drive in Dallas. The drugstore retailer is working with NRG Energy to install high-power ... Continue reading
TXU Energy Customers Take Charge at First eVgo Charging Station
Apr 8, 2011
DALLAS--TXU Energy customers can now take charge of rising prices at the pump thanks to a brand new Dallas-area charging station for electric vehicles (EVs). The first eVgoSM network charging location is now live in North Texas, and TXU Energy customers Victoria and Paul Craig were the first to use it to power an EV to ... Continue reading
Electric Vehicles Summit to Power Industry towards Obama Target
Apr 7, 2011
LOS ANGELES--Barack Obama wants one million Electric Vehicles on the road by 2015, and after decades of spluttering starts and stalled hopes, the Electric Vehicles market is sparking global interest ahead of entering the mainstream. âââ¬Â¦ As we make our cars and trucks more efficient, weââ¬â¢v ... Continue reading
Apr 7, 2011
PR Newswire AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 7, 2011 AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 7, 2011 -- ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the Michigan-based developer of a Range Extended Electric Powertain, is pleased to announce an agreement with Manheim, the automotive industry's leader in remarketing services, regarding the installation o ... Continue reading
Behr To Discuss Latest Electric and Hybrid-Electric Technologies at SAE 2011
Apr 7, 2011
PR Newswire Apr. 7 WHAT: Behr America is hosting a media briefing during the 2011 SAE World Congress to discuss its latest electric and hybrid-electric vehicle technologies along with a variety of new engine-mounted components for downsized engines. WHO: Dr. Uwe Krueger, vice president of engineering for Behr America's ... Continue reading
Apr 7, 2011
BOULDER, Colo.--The second comeback of the electric vehicle (EV) in little more than a decade has a much greater likelihood of success, and many in the industry believe that it will have a transformative effect on driving habits as well as the automotive and electric power industries. To prepare for the arrival of EVs ... Continue reading
ECTunes APS: Electric Cars Need Artificial Engine Sounds
Apr 7, 2011
HORSENS, Denmark--Sounds for electric cars should have the characteristics of engine sounds which alternate in pitch, frequency and volume in relation to speed and acceleration. These are just some of the conclusions found in ââ¬ÅWhite paper on external sounds for electric carsââ¬???, the first report ... Continue reading
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