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Detroit Electric and Proton Team Up To Make Affordable and Practical Pure Electric Cars

Detroit Electric to produce and market full line of innovative Pure Electric vehicles in US, UK, EU and China beginning 2010

30 Mar 2009

Zero Motorcycles Set to Make World Record With 24 Hour All Electric Vehicle Endurance Race

Zero Motorcycles will make history again the weekend of April 4-5, when they host their 24 Hours of Electricross. The event will be the first international endurance competition for off-road all-electric vehicles and is a landmark moment in the electric vehicle industry

24 Mar 2009

Environmental Pioneers Sought For World's Greenest Building

Independence Station, the Oregon development slated to become the World's Greenest Building when it opens in 2010, is now accepting priority pre-reservations for the 15 condominium-style homes included in the mixed-use development

23 Mar 2009

Researchers Use Nanotechnology to Develop Highly Efficient Method For Storing Renewable Energy

Researchers at the Maryland NanoCenter at the University of Maryland have developed new systems for storing electrical energy derived from alternative sources that are, in some cases, 10 times more efficient than what is commercially available

20 Mar 2009

Global Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Industry Reviewed

A new market news review, 2008 HYBRID AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE PROGRESS REVIEW (FCB005J) from BCC Research, provides a comprehensive overview of the global hybrid and electric vehicle (HEV) industry, offering detailed insight into current and emerging technologies and markets

17 Mar 2009

Bright Future Ahead For The Alternative Energy Storage Market

The need for storing energy along with the preference for cleaner storage techniques opens the door to enormous opportunities for alternative energy storage technologies

16 Mar 2009

New Battery Development May Allow Batteries To Recharge In Seconds

MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries -- for cell phones and other devices -- that could recharge in seconds rather than hours

11 Mar 2009

ECOtality and Nissan Partner to Bring Electric Vehicle Infrastructure To Arizona's Pima County

ECOtality to Work with Nissan and Pima Association of Governments (PAG) to Establish the Tucson Region as an electronic vehicle EV Micro-Climate

9 Mar 2009

Wheego Starts Taking Electric Car Order With Shipping Expected in May

WHEEGO ELECTRIC CARS, a division of RTEV, Inc., one of the first companies to deliver a full line of recreational and street electric LSVs (Low Speed Vehicles), today announced that it is taking reservations for its first car, the Wheego Whip, which will begin shipping in May

4 Mar 2009

Siemens Energy Looks At Innovative Ways to Plug Electric Vehicles Into The Power Grid

As a partner in an international consortium Siemens Energy is to investigate within the framework of the EDISON project innovative options for connecting electric vehicles to the public power supply grid

27 Feb 2009