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Media Watch:
Nissan Aims
to Cut Electric-Car Cost
Wall Street Journal
October 30, 2009
--Nissan Motor Co.
Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said the Japanese auto maker intends to
overcome the high cost of making advanced batteries and make its
all-electric cars price-competitive even without government subsidies. Mr.
Ghosn gave a timeframe of around three years for the cost-cutting effort,
though he said the price of oil would play a large role in determining the
effort's success.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704317704574503122120784290.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Electric Car Dreams
PBS NOW
October 30, 2009
--Denmark is setting
a global example in creating clean power, storing it, and using it
responsibly. Their reliance on wind power to produce electricity without
contributing to global warming is well known, but now they're looking to
drive the point home with electric cars.
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/544/index.html
County judge
rules in electric vehicle owners' favor
Enid News & Eagle (Oklahoma)
October 29, 2009
--Oklahomans who have
purchased, or intend to purchase, low-speed electric vehicles will get a
tax credit from the Oklahoma State Tax Commission. District Judge Dennis
Hladik issued a two-page ruling stating the plaintiffs who sought an
emergency restraining order against the commission will receive the tax
credit for purchases of low-speed electric vehicles.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1065577477
Plugging Into An Electric Vehicle Revolution
Space Daily
October 29, 2009
--A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is underway. Over
the next three months, staff from Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet
will use the PHEVs for their daily drive to work and for leisure as part of
CSIRO and SP AusNet trial.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1065577878
Fisker Finds New Use For GM Plant
BMI Americas Automotive Insights
December 1, 2009
--U.S. luxury car producer Fisker Automotive has acquired a former
General Motors plant in Wilmington, Delware, which will produce its
high-volume plug-in hybrid sedan. The plant itself cost just $18 million,
but a further $175 million will be spent over the next three years on
retooling the plant.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1065575814
Insight Hybrid Vehicle Wins Japan Automotive Hall of Fame Car of the
Year 2009-2010
JCN Newswire
October 29, 2009
--Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that the Committee of Japan
Automotive Hall of Fame had awarded its Car of the Year 2009-2010 to the
Insight hybrid vehicle.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1064646951
All-American Zero-Emission Electric Bus Debuts on
Capitol Hill
Zibb
October 29, 2009
--Proterra LLC, a Colorado-based manufacturer of zero-emission
heavy-duty vehicle systems and transit buses, and Altair Nanotechnologies,
Inc. introduced to Washington DC policymakers the only made-in-America
electric rapid-charge hybrid bus that meets California's zero emission
rules
http://www.zibb.com/article/5627936/All+American+Zero+Emission+Electric+Bus+Debuts+on+Capitol+Hill
Electric cars may be in North Texas by next
year
Fort Worth Star Telegram
October 29, 2009
--The electric car is heading to North Texas, and motorists
might be plugging in as early as next year. In hopes of making the
transition a turnkey deal, about 70 transit planners, venture capitalists,
energy distributors and auto-industry representatives discussed how to
create an infrastructure for the new vehicles.
http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/1722875.html
Boxer Aims for Tuesday Markup on Climate Bill
The Washington Post
October 30, 2009
--Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara
Boxer (D-Calif.) plans to take up climate legislation in her committee
Tuesday.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/10/by_juliet_eilperin_senate_envi.html
Honda to develop larger hybrid vehicle
Auto Business News
October 28, 2009
--Honda Motor Company is planning to develop a larger hybrid vehicle.
The automaker is working on the firm's new hybrid systems, which will
feature two electric motors rather than Honda's current single motor setup.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1064647061
Big award
Daily Post (Liverpool)
October 28, 2009
--Mitsubishi's tiny i MiEV electric city car has won Japan's
prestigious Car of the Year advanced technology award.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1063858026
Billionaire bets on electric-car battery plant
The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada)
October 28, 2009
--French billionaire Vincent Bolloré is joining the global rush to
build electric batteries for the vehicles of tomorrow. Bolloré Group will
invest $120 million in a battery-producing factory east of Montreal. The
facility, purchased from Hydro-Quebec by Bolloré in 2007, already churns
out a few hundred electric-car power plants a year. With this investment,
he aims to boost production to 15,000 a year.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1063859229
Socio-economic and Legislative Changes Will Drive the
Development of New Vehicle Models Across the EU
Journal of Transportation
October 31, 2009
--Social factors, coupled with legislation related to
environment and safety, are playing a critical role in the evolution of new
automotive technologies.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1063856485
At Google, Chu announces grants for 'out-of-the-box' global
warming projects
San Jose Mercury News (California)
October 26, 2009
--Fulfilling a campaign pledge to tap Silicon Valley innovation
to combat global warming, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Monday at
Google's headquarters the first federal grants for high-risk, high-reward
clean-tech ventures including revolutionary technologies like using
bacteria to create gasoline.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1062866182
KEPCO, Hyundai sign deal for electric vehicles
Yonhap (South Korea)
October 27, 2009
--Korea Electric Power Corp. has signed a preliminary deal with
Hyundai Motor Group to jointly develop electric vehicles and battery
chargers.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1062865614
Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Fleet Helps Drive Cleaner 2010
Winter Games
Marketwire
October 26, 2009
--The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games got a
little greener with the launch of the zero emission Chevrolet Equinox fuel
cell demonstration fleet that will operate in Vancouver until the end of
the Games.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1062866067
Nissan, Sumitomo team up to recycle electric car
batteries
ADP News Renewable Energy Track
October 26, 2009
--Japanese vehicle maker Nissan Motor Corp. and general trading company
Sumitomo Corp. have joined forces in an effort to recycle used lithium-ion
batteries into energy-storage solutions for solar applications.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument∨gId=101846&topicId=104970025&docId=l:1062865616
Local company to export 38,000 electric cars worth $400
million
Yonhap (South Korea)
October 23, 2009
--CT&T, a local electric vehicle maker, signed contracts at the
Tokyo Motor Show to export 38,000 electric cars worth $400 million. Of the
total, 7,000 cars will go to 2AM Group of the U.S., while MVP EV Group and
EVI Group, also from the U.S., will take 5,000 each. RLM Group of Canada
will also take 5,000. Japan's Nippon Automobile Fair Certificate
Association will buy 3,000. GAEA Motors will buy 1,000 cars, and 2,000 will
be shipped to a Taiwanese buyer.
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