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Norwegians are buying a lot of Nissan Leaf vehicles and have the most Tesla Model S reservations in the European market. While the US is a major market for electric vehicles, the sales numbers are proportionally huge for Norwegians. US electric vehicle sales look to be close to 50,000 for plug-in ...

There must be something about Scandinavia that makes people think about electric cars. Last year, for example, the UK-based EV charging station company Pod Point found that, out of the all the 400-plus public chargers in London, the most popular was at the local IKEA store. And, of course, Think ...

Electric vehicles push technologies beyond batteries and software. Take this new prototype from Roskva Electric Motorcycles, for example. In pursuit of a lighter bike, the five UMB engineering students behind this machine took a page from MotoGP and decided to go all out with carbon fiber ...

Just think, if Americans took to the Nissan Leaf battery-electric vehicle as enthusiastically as the Norwegians, the Japanese automaker would've hit its first-year U.S. sales goal of 10,000 units... in about a month. Nissan sold 1,000 Leafs in Norway during its first six months of sales there ...

Three days, 600 Nissan Leafs sold. That's the word over in Norway, where Frode Langli of Nissan Norway has tracked Leaf sales since the electric hatch launched there on Saturday, October 8. Including the weekend, Langli says Leaf sales hit nearly 600 by early Tuesday. Some 1,200 Norwegian ...

We'd bet Azure Dynamics is thrilled to announce that it just logged its largest Transit Connect Electric order to date. At 100-units strong, Norwegian Ford dealership, RøhneSelmer, can lay claim to the single, most sizable Connect Electric order ever. RøhneSelmer's 100-unit order ...

The 2012 Nissan Leaf will go on sale in Norway this fall. At 255,000 Norwegian kroner ($47,112 U.S. at the current exchange rate), the Leaf will be priced to directly compete with Norway's conventional (gas- and diesel-powered) compact vehicles. Come this fall, Norway will be the ninth European ...

Van Hool NV, a Belgium-based coach manufacturer, has contracted Ballard Power Systems to supply fuel cell power modules for five hydrogen buses. The fuel cell-equipped coaches will be operated by the HyNor Oslo Buss group and swing into action in late 2011, servicing the city of Oslo, ...

Recently, Mitsubishi's electric i-MiEV hit the Norwegian market. In January, the pint-sized I-MiEV racked up a total of 99 sales in Norway. Though the I-MiEV didn't exactly fly off dealer lots, it did manage to outsell all of ...

Danish company H2 Logic will add to Norway's "hydrogen highway" with the installation of a refueling station in the suburbs outside of Oslo in summer 2011. Together with another planned hydrogen station in the city's downtown center, this area of Norway will become home to one of the world's ...