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EV News This Week

EV News This Week

Tiny Iowa town has the chargers, awaiting drivers Associated Press November 20, 2009 --The tiny Iowa town of Elk Horn will have plenty of electric charging stations and no wait — if you can get there. The town, more than 1,500 miles from the electric car mecca of California and hundreds of miles from the nearest c ... Continue reading

ECOtality & eTec to Join Unveiling in San Diego

ECOtality & eTec to Join Unveiling in San Diego

SAN DIEGO--The EV Project will take an important step forward today as the zero-emission Nissan LEAF makes its North American debut in San Diego, California. ECOtality, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, is the lead grantee for The EV Project, having received an awar ... Continue reading

RoadTrip: 2010 Mercury Milan and Honda Insight - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

RoadTrip: 2010 Mercury Milan and Honda Insight - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

Join The Auto Channel's Mark and Marc to look at hybrids from two marques: Mercury and Honda! SEE ALSO: 2010 Lincoln MKS Pricing and Specifications Show host Mark Fulmer and The Auto Channel's co-founder test drive the new Mercury Milan and Honda Insight while talking about the state of alternative fuels and energy. Th ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, ML450 HYBRID and Fuel Cell to Debut at L.A. Auto Show

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, ML450 HYBRID and Fuel Cell to Debut at L.A. Auto Show

All-New SLS AMG Supercar, Fuel-Cell-Powered F-Cell, and New Hybrids Share the Spotlight LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 -- The 563-horsepower Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG supercar, the fuel-sipping E350 BlueTEC and the fuel-cell-powered F-Cell will be making their North American debuts at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show, open to the publ ... Continue reading

China, U.S. to cooperate on clean-energy vehicles

China, U.S. to cooperate on clean-energy vehicles

China, U.S. to cooperate on clean-energy vehicles http://autonews.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1012999/China-U-S-to-cooperate-on- clean -energy-vehicles.html Shanghai, November 18 (Gasgoo.com) Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama announced in Beijing yesterday a far-reaching package of measures ... Continue reading

Advertising Age Names Tesla One of "America's Hottest Brands"

Advertising Age Names Tesla One of "America's Hottest Brands"

NEW YORK--Advertising Age selected electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors as one of “America’s hottest brands” in a special report highlighting the year's 50 brightest brands and the visionaries behind them. Rather than depending on conventional advertising, Tesla has relied on the quality of its pro ... Continue reading

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid Review

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid Review

“The most fuel efficient mid size sedan in America” is Ford’s tag line for the Fusion Hybrid. Rated at 36-mpg on the highway and 41 in the city by the EPA, the Fusion is certainly ahead of the pack. You might get a little better mileage with the Jetta TDI (diesel), but that’s a smaller car costing a ... Continue reading

Ford Fusion Named 2010 MOTOR TREND Car of the Year

Ford Fusion Named 2010 MOTOR TREND Car of the Year

DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 17 -- -- The 2010 Ford Fusion is MOTOR TREND magazine's pick for its prestigious Car of the Year® award -- The Fusion bested a field of 23 contenders - including the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, BMW 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class - to win the prominent award -- Fusion is now among America's to ... Continue reading

City of Houston Installs Coulomb Technologies Networked Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

City of Houston Installs Coulomb Technologies Networked Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

HOUSTON--Coulomb Technologies, the leader in electric vehicle charging station infrastructure, today announced the first networked charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles are available for use in the city of Houston, Texas. The ten charging stations available for consumer and City fleet use are part of a public ... Continue reading

Electrification Coalition Praises U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, And Why Not?

Electrification Coalition Praises U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, And Why Not?

Coalition Urges Administration to be Ambitious In Goals WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Electrification Coalition today applauded the announcement of the U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, and urged the Obama administration to go even further in its efforts to support an electrified transportat ... Continue reading

The storage battery that answers YESS to Your Energy Storage Solutions!

The storage battery that answers YESS to Your Energy Storage Solutions!

ERRA Incorporated, San Antonio, TX, USA has acquired all rights and patents to a breakthrough battery technology to be marketed as the YESS Battery from ERRA, Inc. “Our acquisition of this battery technology for all fields of use enables us to deploy the battery in hundreds of existing applications that wi ... Continue reading

Nissan Launches Scholarship Competition for University Students in Conjunction with Nissan LEAF Zero Emissions Tour

Nissan Launches Scholarship Competition for University Students in Conjunction with Nissan LEAF Zero Emissions Tour

Student Competition kicks off at University of Southern California LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 -- Nissan LEAF Zero Emissions Tour Nissan today announced the launch of the Nissan LEAF Zero Emissions Student Competition, which allows university and college students to express how the Nissan LEAF has inspired their outlook towar ... Continue reading

Northern Lights Energy and REVA Agree to Develop Iceland's EV Market

Northern Lights Energy and REVA Agree to Develop Iceland's EV Market

LONDON, November 16 -- Northern Lights Energy (NLE), initiator of Iceland's Project 2012 and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EVs) has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company (REVA) to develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. NLE has exclusive distribution rights for REVA ... Continue reading

Renault-Nissan Alliance Forges Zero-Emission Vehicle Agreement With Reliant Energy

Renault-Nissan Alliance Forges Zero-Emission Vehicle Agreement With Reliant Energy

Nissan LEAF Zero-Emission Tour kicks off in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 -- The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced that Nissan and Reliant Energy of Houston, Texas, one of the major competitive electricity providers in the nation, have forged an agreement to advance zero-emission mobility in the United States. ... Continue reading

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