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Think of it as a way to boost plug-in vehicle adoption by removing the "plug-in" part. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced it will spend as much as $4 million to speed the development of wireless electric-vehicle charging stations. The DOE will award the funds to as many as four ...

Looks like Fisker Automotive's looking for its own range-extender. The California-based maker of the extended-range plug-in Karma luxury sedan, is looking to raise at least $100 million in funds by the end of this month in order to restart production of its Delaware plant, Bloomberg News ...

Are plug-in vehicle incentives distributed correctly? Apparently not. A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University (PDF) suggests that by subsidizing vehicles with big battery packs (that is, bigger than 16 kWh), the return on investment (in terms of reducing gas/diesel consumption and ...

China-based GSR Ventures led a $125-million investment round for Massachusetts firm Boston-Power, a startup that designs and manufacturers application-specific lithium-ion batteries, mainly for automotive applications. To date, Boston-Power has raised some $320 million since its founding in 2005. ...

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives reportedly want to cut in half the balance of a U.S. government fund, the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program, that was set aside to help the automotive industry develop more fuel efficient ...

Fisker Automotive is reportedly seeking an additional $200 million through its latest round of private fundraising, according to Venture Beat. This adds to the $100 million Fisker snatched in May, the $40 million the automaker raised ...

Fisker Automotive is reportedly seeking an additional $15 million in private funds, according to Automotive News (sub.req.). This may come as somewhat of a surprise considering that the maker of luxury plug-in hybrids has pushed back the delivery date of the Karma to mid-July. During a ...

On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY12 Homeland Security Appropriations bill (pdf). As part of this bill, the Committee pushed through an amendment that adds $1 billion in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief fund. That's all fine ...

Fisker Automotive has reportedly snagged an additional $100 million through its latest round of private fundraising, according to Automotive News (sub.req.). This adds to the $40 million Fisker raised back in March, the $150 million it snatched up in February, the $300 million it had raised ...

Coda Holdings, the company behind the battery-powered Coda Sedan, is still seeking an additional $50 million to "finish the car," according to Christopher Rose, the firm's senior vice president for corporate development. Back in January, regulatory filings indicated that Coda had raised $76 ...