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Refinanced Think Says City Car EV Production Will Resume in November

The Th!nk City electric car could be back in production as soon as next month if all goes according to plan. However, for the first time since the company debuted a decade ago, the little EVs won't be built in Norway. Instead, new minority shareholder Valmet Automotive will shift the tooling to its factory in Uusikaupunki, Finland where it will be built alongside Porsche Boxsters and Caymans that Valmet assembles under contract. Soon, the same factory will also start production of the Fisker Karma plug-in series hybrid. The City ... Read more →

Tiny island of Tershcelling gets fully electric ambulance from Th!nk Jeremy Korzeniewski

With the current limitations (no pun intended) of battery-electric vehicles like the Th!nk City, one of the last places we'd expect to see one operating is as an ambulance. After all, when life is ...

Out of bankruptcy, Think announces new Board of Directors Sebastian Blanco

Electric vehicle maker Think announced a new Board of Directors today, bringing together some of the people who guided the once-troubled automaker through its recent bankruptcy. The new board will ...

Think has an order backlog 2,300 vehicles long Sebastian Blanco

The latest official Twitter update from Th!nk reads as follows: We will be re-opening the order book for the Think City in Europe in late October. Our present backlog is about 2,300 orders 2,300 ...

Think exits bankruptcy, gets $47m for production move to Finland Sebastian Blanco

Recent reports that Think would move the manufacturing location of its City electric cars from Norway to Finland were true. The Norwegian EV company has some even better news, though: it has ...

REPORT: Think electric cars to be made in Finland alongside Fisker Karma 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Our friends over at Electric A!D recently took a baby blue Think City EV from its home in Norway to show it off in Denmark (recharging it onboard the ferry). Turns out another Nordic nation might hold the future for the small all-electric car. A report in VG Nett says that, in the future, Think ...

New places to "refuel" your car: onboard a ferry 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Electric A!D, the northern European electric car advocates, have taken a baby blue Think City EV from Norway to Denmark "without any more hassle than if you where to travel with an ICE car." One of the reasons things went smoothly is that the Stena Line ferry service from Oslo, Norway to ...

Ener1 to supply batteries for Volvo PHEV, what about Th!nk? 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Volvo is building several plug-in hybrid prototypes of its V70 station wagon to begin field tests this fall in Europe. The cars are using lithium ion battery packs that will be supplied by Indiana-based Ener1. The 11.3 kWh packs will provide 31 miles of electric driving range through the rear ...

Think working on "capital increase negotiations," production of City EV could resume soon 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

News has broken that Norwegian electric car company Th!nk is getting a big chunk of change, between $40-50 million, from new and anonymous investors. The company says that "capital increase negotiations have reached a first conditional approval from investors, and the company is now moving into ...

REPORT: New Louisiana auto plant not for Th!nk, will make high-mpg gas-powered cars [UPDATED] 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Plans for a new auto plant will be unveiled later this morning in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana. We guessed earlier that the plant would be for the Th!nk CIty EV, but a new report from local newspaper The News Star indicates otherwise. The paper writes, "The new company will ...

REPORT: New auto assembly plant to be announced this week... perhaps for Th!nk? 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Financially struggling Norwegian EV maker Th!nk has been saying for some time that it wants to build some of its cars in in the United States. That announcement could come as soon as this week in Louisana. In a report published in Louisiana newspaper The News Star, factory owner Jim Davison will ...

Electric car sharing coming to Oslo, Norway 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

It's about to get a lot easier to drive a Th!nk City electric car. Residents of Oslo, Norway - and tourists - will soon (i.e., tomorrow) be able to participate in a new car sharing plan called Move About. As of May 27, Move About will start public car sharing with 13 electric vehicles at three ...

Th!nk gets homologation in the Netherlands, ready to be sold in European Union 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Once a vehicle has been certified for roadworthiness by any member of the European Union, that vehicle can legally be sold in any fellow member country. Such is the case with the Th!nk City, which has just officially passed vehicle inspection in the Netherlands. Issued by the De Rijksdienst voor ...

Bill O'Reilly challenged by Electric Aid to sign up for an electric car 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

As someone who avoids listening to Bill O'Reilly, I didn't hear him make a claim last year (when gas prices were high) that he would buy a Prius if he could fit into one. O'Reilly also apparently said that, "No matter where you stand in the climate change debate, everyone should be able to agree ...

Electric Aid tries to gauge American interest in Think City 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

A few weeks ago, Th!nk discussed plans to enter the U.S. market with the City electric car sometime next year. If you're one of the people who thinks this is a good idea, then the Electric Air social network would like to get to know you. Electric Aid, which is not officially connected to Think in ...

Austrian government launches 100 unit EV test program with Th!nk 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Austrian government is the latest to jump into the electric vehicle testing field with a program called the Vlotte EV project. 100 electric vehicles will be operated in the first of several such programs around the country this year. This first test will be run in the Bregenz region in the ...

Think City might cost $49,500 (U.S.) in Holland, without leasing the battery 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

A few more details about the 500 Th!nk City electric vehicles that are headed for Holland. AutoblogGreen reader Matthijs wrote in with the following: This morning (11:00 CET) I contacted ElmoNet with some questions about the Think City. While they are concentrating on selling to companies and ...

Th!nk to sell 500 EVs to Dutch leasing company, if they get cash to build 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Th!nk may be struggling financially but that doesn't mean they aren't trying. After announcing last week its intention to set up U.S. manufacturing next year, the Norwegian company has just inked a deal to sell 500 units of its City EV. The cars will be purchased this year by Dutch leasing ...

Think City coming to the U.S. - info overload 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

"A small and humble beginning." That was how Th!nk CEO Richard Canny described his company's proposed expansion to America. It certainly wasn't a big, flashy roll-out in Ann Arbor this morning, but Canny and Th!nk North America CTO Jim Lyons made the most of a drab conference room to sell the ...

Norwegian electric car company Th!nk going Swedish? 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

The site for all things Th!nk, Electric Aid, has gotten a hold of a new rumor surrounding the Norwegian electric automaker: it may no longer be a Norwegian company. Swedish TV station SVT is apparently reporting that production of the electric City car may move from Aurskog, Norway to Sweden. ...

Th!nk City nominated for Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

A nomination does not a win make, but the team over at Th!nk must be happy about anything positive these days. The town crier came in with news that the Th!nk City has been nominated for a Brit Insurance Designs of the Year award, hosted by the Design Museum in London. Like the iQ before it, ...

Th!nk saved by outside investors Ener1 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Th!nk's not dead yet, though it might still officially be on life support. As expected, an outside group of investors has stepped up to the plate and bailed out the Norwegian electric car company with a bridge loan of 40 million crowns ($5.69 million). The largest bit of funding comes courtesy ...

Th!nk thinks outside investors will step up to save Th!nk 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Things continue to look up at Th!nk. Electric Aid is watching the Norwegian press for us, and found an article in Indre.no that says that Th!nk management is "very optimistic" about the chances that outside new investors - along with current ones and the Norwegian government - will step in and ...

Think gets grassroots, some new electric cars should be ready in January 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Just a quick update to Saturday's post about Th!nk's ever-increasing rescue potential. We wrote that Google translated the Norwegian of the original article as, "There will be no cars on the market in January." Our friend Leif wrote in to note that "the real translation should be 'There will be ...

Th!nk update #413705: at least some Norwegian politicians want to help electric car company 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

The story continues. AutoblogGreen's new all-things Th!nk source Leif has found another sign that the government of Norway might indeed be readying aid for the ailing electric car maker. Leif writes: I woke up to the news today that Åslaug Haga, until recently leader of the Center Party ...

Th!nk bankruptcy/bailout drama continues in Norway 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Been following the story of Norwegian electric carmaker Th!nk? In the past week, the company has gone from EV poster child to potentially bankrupt. The Norwegian government did not step in to help, and then the one of Th!nk's largest investors, Stein Erik Hagen, tried a sort of double or ...

Dept. of unfortunate timing: JSP touts Th!nk's choice of ARPRO recycled polypropylene 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

JSP is a company that makes Expanded Polypropylene (EPP), known in the market as ARPRO. It's understandable that JSP was proud that the Norwegian company Th!nk had selected ARPRO to use for the exterior and some parts of the interior for the Th!nk City, the small all-electric vehicle. ARPRO is ...

Think may be saved by Stein Erik Hagen's double-or-nothing plan 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Following up on yesterday's news that the Norwegian government does not seem inclined to help electric vehicle manufacturer Th!nk, AutoblogGreen tipster Leif E. sent us a link to E24 that says that one of Norway's richest people, Stein Erik Hagen, has said he's willing to double his investments ...

Think's request for help going unanswered, not all orders guaranteed to ship 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

We learned earlier today that Norwegian electric automaker Th!nk had requested a handout from the Norwegian government. We've now heard that the government is not likely to give the EV maker any money. According to a translation of a piece in the Norwegian news source Dagbladet by AutoblogGreen ...

EDTA 2008: EnerDel's Th!nk City 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

In the back corner of the EDTA Conference last week was the EnerDel booth featuring the prototype Th!nk City with EnerDel's lithium battery pack. We chatted with Ener1 Chairman and CEO Charles Gassenheimer about the car, the battery packs and the future (Ener1 owns EnerDel). Gassenheimer told ...

First TH!NK City's will go to the most 'EV Friendly' cities in Europe 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Electric vehicle maker Th!nk Global is just about ready to begin selling cars over in Europe. Instead of launching one single full-scale offensive, the Norwegian automaker is now trying to figure out where its cars would be most welcomed, and to help make the decision, its created an EV ...

Th!nk NEV tuner edition 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for more high-res shots of this custom Th!nk NEV Ever since at least the 1950's, car culture has included modifying vehicles for added performance and style. With the dawn of the fully electric car, there are some contingents that are all ready considering how best to eke more from the ...

EnerDel update from chairman Charles Gassenheimer 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We spoke with Ener1 Chairman Charles Gassenheimer back in December at the EVS23 expo and at the time he was quite bullish on his company's prospects for 2008. So far this year, there has been quite a bit of good news for the company. Ener1's li-ion battery subsidiary, EnerDel, put a lithium-ion ...

Top 20 green cars we wish we could buy today, Number 8: Th!nk Ox 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click the Th!nk Ox for a high res gallery Th!nk's Ox is a five-seat monocab design that has a space frame structure that can be used for a variety of different body styles. Besides the four-door body, Th!nk is also showing a two-door coupe body. The space frame provides the crash structure and ...

Th!nk will launch operations in America 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge Shortly after announcements that Th!nk would be selling its wares in the U.K. and possibly Australia comes news that the Norwegian maker of small electric cars is launching operations in America. Th!nk's City electric car was designed with the American market in mind, so this news ...

TH!NK could be put on sale in Australia 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Th!nk UK managing director Richard Blundell said that their all-electric car could be put on sale in Australia without too much hassle. The reason? The Th!nk City, which Blundell pointed out is a real car and not a quadricycle (NEV), is designed to satisfy both EU and U. S. highway safety features ...

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