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0Official: Nissan will expand Leaf dealer network in Europe tenfold this year 1331574840
Nissan will increase the number of European car dealers carrying Leaf electric vehicles tenfold – to 1,000 – by the end of the year and will sell the car in two dozen European markets by 2013, all part of the Japanese automaker's plan to boost Leaf sales overseas. Nissan, which ...
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Northeast electric vehicle charging network coming to 11 states 1320271260
At the moment, the Northeast is not exactly a hotbed for electric vehicle use in the United States. With chilly winters making consumers nervous about battery range and dealers in some states still not even offering vehicles like the Nissan Leaf, the Northeast currently claims only about 6% of ...
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Report: BYD says electric e6 delayed due to lack of U.S. plug-in infrastructure 1319653920
It's coming in 2010. Scratch that. How about 2011? Oh shucks, that's impossible, too. Let's shoot for 2012. BYD Auto constantly alters the U.S. launch date of the electric e6 crossover. But this latest bit of info should relieve us of reporting further delays. When BYD announced its U.S. scheme, ...
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Mitsubishi signs electric vehicle MOU with region in Russia 1314796140
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, along with Rolf Import, MMC's exclusive Russian distributor, and the Government of Russia's Kaluga Region signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that calls for the three parties to collaborate on several projects aimed at improving the natural environment of the ...
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Study: Energy usage attributable to electric vehicles could rise 1,700% by 2020 1306194540
Energy usage attributable to electric vehicles could soar 1,700 percent by 2020, according to a report authored by utility consulting firm The Shpigler Group and released by the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC), the so-called "voice of critical infrastructure communications." Annual megawatt-hour ...
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Obama's infrastructure plan could offer real reform while providing better transportation options 1284508200
President Obama announces $50b infrastructure plan – Click above to watch videoLast week, President Obama announced a new plan to spend $50 billion on updating America's infrastructure. That plan included promises of 150,000 miles of rebuilt roads, 4,000 miles of new train tracks and 150 ... -
Obama announces $50b plan to build the "best infrastructure in the world" 1283885640
President Obama announces $50b infrastructure plan – Click above to watch video after the jumpYesterday, as part of his speech marking Labor Day, President Obama said the following:So, that's why, Milwaukee, today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's ...
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Study: Americans prefer tolls over fuel taxes... how about you? 1280232060
One fact seems indisputable: Americans have come to hate taxes and any suggestion by a politician to raise them is tantamount to political suicide. The problem is that public infrastructure requires funding – and lots of it. Critics of this disparity would argue that a lack of political ...
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Cleaner, more efficient transportation infrastructure better for the
environmenteconomy 1266602580Finding the nexus where different groups – hardcore environmentalists and hardcore business-firsters, for example – share common ground isn't always easy. Today, we think we've got one: smarter, greener transportation systems. Thanks to Wired, we find a recent report issued by the ...
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First downtowns, and now suburbs: how cars change American geography 1265848740
Want a peek into the future of roads and cars and transportation and homes in America? Consider this:
... faced with aging infrastructure, higher maintenance costs, and growing numbers of poor, this increase [of poor people in the suburbs] could become self-perpetuating, a la the inner cities in ...
