source: blogs.nytimes.com The route to a fully charged electric vehicle runs through the parking lot. At least that’s the path followed by the Car Charging Group, a Florida-based electric-vehicle service provider that announced on Monday it is teaming up with Icon Parking Systems to install plug-in stations at some of Icon’s more than 200...
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SOURCE: NY TIMES Depending on whom you ask, this tiny company is either the next big thing in automobiles, or a maker of glorified golf carts. What is indisputable is that as the whole automotive world seems to be racing suddenly toward the age of electricity, the Reva Electric Car Company is in the...
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Eco Barons, as its title suggests, is a fascinating tale about people—some rather unexpected–who have become stewards of our environment. From Doug Tompkins, the billionaire co-founder of Esprit who bought and preserved huge chunks of land in Chile, to Carole Allen, a widowed mother in Texas, who fought and won the protection of the...
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Pure-electric vehicles could account for 10 per cent of new-car purchases globally by 2020, Carlos Ghosn, head of the Renault-Nissan alliance, predicted on Sunday as he unveiled the Leaf…reported in the Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/172e6042-7f54-11de-85dc-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss
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On the street (on the sidewalk, actually) in London last week I saw this tiny little car parked directly in front of me. It is known as the G-Wiz and it is entirely electric. There are reportedly over 950 G-Wiz on the road in London and over 2,000 worldwide. You might say it’s not...
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