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Evatran Plugless Power Station To Wireless Charge…

Share Evatran Plugless Power Station To Wireless Charge Electric Cars Posted on Jul 29, 10 12:49 AM PDT With wireless charging slowly making its way to mobile phones, maybe it’s time that electric vehicles get a healthy dose

Government slashes electric car grants

full grant would cut the price of that car from £28,350 to £23,580. Only new-generation electric cars including the Leaf, Tesla Roadster and Mitsubishi i-MiEV will be eligible. There’s also uncertainty surrounding the previous government’s ‘plugged-in

Should I buy an electric car or should I wait?

fossil burning or hybrid car before you go electric. It will probably be 2013 before you see electric cars on our roads in any numbers. Only this week I got a short spin in Renault?s upcoming all-electric version of the Fluence, but it?s not due here

The Nissan Leaf’s Practical Details

fits into any three-prong plug. There are plans for some public quick-charging stations that’ll juice up electric cars in 30 minutes, but that infrastructure isn’t there yet. For now Leaf owners would have to treat their cars like homing pigeons, making

Toyota Plans Low-Price Hybrid

sell plug-in hybrid vehicles at less than 3 million yen ($34,600) to consumers to compete with electric cars offered by rivals, the Sankei newspaper said, citing an unidentified company official. Toyotas plug-in hybrids were offered to corporate clients

NYC opens first public electric car charging station;…

similar charging stations will be installed throughout the city by September 2011. The city already uses 10 electric cars to check for potholes and other street problems, and plans to buy about 40 more to be used by the parks and transportation

Are power grids ready for electric cars?

With a new fleet of electric cars coming to a dealer near you, are the power grids ready? CNN’s Alison Kosik reports

Nissan plans hybrid, green technology

engines to send a green message. Nissan Motor Co. is a leader among global automakers in zero-emission electric cars, with its Leaf being rolled out in a few months time. But its engineers said Tuesday that green offerings for conventional cars are in

Stimulus helps electric-car owners: Free chargers…

and trudging through the snow in open-toe shoes, she lost faith, her husband said. ‘The technology behind electric cars has vastly improved,’ said Dave Goldstein, president of the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington, D.C. With all the

Daihatsu developing gas-nibblers

Daihatsu Motor Co. is concentrating on developing fuel-efficient gasoline vehicles rather than hybrid or electric cars, the company’s new president says. Koichi Ina, who assumed his post on Tuesday, said Daihatsu’s e:S gasoline-powered minicar, boasting