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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 ...

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 ...

REPORT: New auto assembly plant to be announced this week... perhaps for Th!nk? Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Austrian government launches 100 unit EV test program with Th!nk Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Th!nk to sell 500 EVs to Dutch leasing company, if they get cash to build 8 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 ...

ElectricAid pushes Th!nk City to the limit in video review 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

What should one do during the cold Norwegian winters? How about take an all-electric car out for a test drive, cruise on up the mountains and then spin out on a frozen drag strip? That's what our friends at Electricaid did with a Th!nk City recently. Over three days, the crew got some beautiful ...

Swedes give a hand up, Th!nk to give 1,000 cars 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Not only does Norwegian electric car maker Th!nk still have a pulse, but it appears to be strengthening. After being raised from its deathbed, the company is now on the receiving end of new investment from a Swedish group of businesses including Gävle Energy, Fortum, Eon and Göteborg ...

Th!nk saved by outside investors Ener1 10 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 ...

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 ...

British PM Gordon Brown checks out the Th!nk city EV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

British prime minister Gordon Brown received a visit on Monday from Richard Blundell, the managing director of Th!nk UK. Th!nk is the Norwegian manufacturer of electric city cars that was once owned by Ford. Th!nk brought out its city car so that Brown and Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon (now ...

EnerDel ramping up battery production to supply Th!nk 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for more shots of the Th!nk Ox and City Th!nk Global recently hired a new President and COO named Richard Canny who had previously been Ford's Worldwide Director of Strategic Planning (details in the Th!nk release after the break). It didn't take too long for Canny to announce that ...

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 ...

Th!nk to build cars in North America + Video 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back in April, Th!nk made it known that they would be selling its all-electric "City" car in America in 2009 with a sub $25,000 price tag. With an ambitious desire to ramp up future North American sales into the 50,000 unit-per-year range, Th!nk and its financial backers have realized it doesn't ...

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 ...

VC firms bet on Th!nk 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As ABG reported earlier today, Th!nk has announced it will be coming to the U.S. market. More information has come out on Reuters via Th!nk's venture capital partners Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Rockport Capital. Ray Lane, a managing partner at Kleiner and chairman of Th!nk North ...

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 ...


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