When EVs take over the widely criticized diesel market, they may get a more serious look.
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Like EVs, range is limited as well so range anxiety is a real problem.
The Wheego is just one of many EVs coming to a dealer near you in 2010-11.
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Solar-power patents rose 134% while hybrid and EVs vehicles increased 60% over the previous year.
General Motors and Nissan are both introducing EVs before the end of the year.
And in Norway, EVs are now an impressive 3.6% of new vehicle sales.
The project will provide an EV infrastructure to support the deployment of 8, 300 EVs.
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Not even stiff new federal fuel-economy mandates may be enough to rescue EVs as a commercial proposition.
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Only 11% of mild hybrid EVs in 2010 used Li-ion but predictions double that percentage come 2017.
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Bala acknowledges it may take 10 or 15 years before the Indian market for EVs really takes off.
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Electricity from coal, which is the most polluting way to generate power, drastically reduces the environmental advantage for EVs.
Like most car companies, Mahindra sees EVs as being the future of driving.
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Think also delivered the first 15 of its City EVs to Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana on Wednesday.
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Palo Alto, California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs and EV power train components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler.
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EVs, even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, are a blast: you get sportiness along with a lifestyle statement about conserving resources.
As of 2010, 98% of EVs used Li-ion batteries, and come 2017, 100% will use Lithium-ion, according to Strategic Analytics.
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Felix Kramer of CalCars points out, waiting for the automakers to field new EVs is going to take a long time.
The more state and federal breaks EVs get, the greater the possibility that drivers will look to them as an alternative.
These days, EVs are far more common and so the story has turned to the details of living with the things.
While the payback period for some EVs today is too long, we are still in the early days of the industry.
The goal is to achieve cost parity between EVs and internal combustion vehicles, and one strategy for doing that is frequency regulation.
Reuters also referred to recent announcements about fuel cell vehicle partnerships as another indication that EVs are on the way out.
Terms of the deal also included the government fleet of 500 EVs.
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EVs don't need fuel to power them, which means no tailpipe emissions.
But Musk thinks the cards were stacked against Tesla from the beginning, based on earlier stories by Broder expressing skepticism about EVs.
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In its model, consumers (or fleet owners) buy EVs, but lease the battery and get electricity through service contracts with Better Place.
The company says it will start by purchasing 12, 000 vehicles from GM, and then buy additional EVs from other manufacturers as they become available.
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The reality is simply that we are decades away from EVs becoming inseparable from the transportation fleet due to the demand and infrastructure investment.
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Ford, meanwhile, has stayed away from diesel and focused on hybrids and EVs as well as more fuel-efficient gasoline engines through its EcoBoost technology.
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