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2011 Chevy Volt pinned with a November 1st official production kickoff date?
Christmas isn’t coming early, but at least you’re getting a heads up.
Tesla Roadster to bid adieu in 2011, successor coming in 2013
Much like the replicants of Philip K Dick’s fertile imagination, it seems like Tesla’s Roadster will live a famous, but short life. In its pre-IPO filings to the SEC, the company has cited “tooling changes at a supplier” as the reason it will stop selling its current gen Roadster and Roadster Sport EVs after 2011. Given that all Roadsters are built at the Lotus factory in England , this probably suggests new Elise or Exige models are on the way and the manufacturing facilities are being updated accordingly
Vexia Econav GPS nags you about your driving
If the folks at Vexia are to be believed, green transportation is not about fancy electric vehicles or, heaven forbid, riding your bike — nope, it’s about having a GPS that offers advice on your driving. Both the Econav 480 (4.3-inch) and 380 (3.5-inch) can be configured for your specific automobile make and model, after which your usual calm, solitary driving experience is replaced by the cold mechanical voice of a satnav as it admonishes you for excessive acceleration, breaking, driving past the speed limit, and so forth. With other Econav models out in Spain for a while now, these guys are finally available to environmentally conscious Britons at prices starting at ?149 (depending on model and map collection).
Plugless Power gearing up for production of its hands-free EV charging stations
Unless your electric vehicles tend to strictly circle your home base, you’re going to need to charge up on-the-go — and until some sort of standard gets worked out, we’re likely to see the “EV filling station” approached on many different angles. In the last six months alone we’ve seen ‘em pop up in a New York alleyway and a North Carolina McDonald’s , and Better Place has tested one of its novel battery switching stations in Tokyo — with more on the horizon.
New York gets its first solar EV charging station, you can’t use it
What do you do when you’ve got two disused shipping crates, some photovoltaics, and a couple buckets of toxic green paint?
Think Electric returns from the brink, begins production of Think City two-seater
Norway’s Think Electric may have managed to attract some backing from GE in early 2008, but it looks to have quickly ran out of cash after that, and was forced to completely shut down its operations about a year ago. Well, kids, dreams do come true — or production lines can be started again, at least — and after securing some funding earlier this year, the company has now announced that its two-seat Think City electric vehicle is now back on track for a release by the end of the year
