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One in four Volkswagens to be electric by 2025

..large-scale shake-up for one of the world’s top three carmakers at a press conference in Germany on Thursday. Thirty pure electric vehicles are planned for the next decade… up to a quarter of VW’s global sales – or up to 3 … Continue reading

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EV train – batteries included!

After a gap of more than 50 years, battery-powered train technology has returned to Britain’s rail network. Between Jan 2015 and mid February the new vehicle, known as the Independently Powered Electric Multiple Unit (IPEMU), will run in a weekday timetable service between … Continue reading

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End of energy and transportation as we know it’: Tony Seba

Within just 15 years conventional energy production and transport…obsolete by revolution in batteries, solar power and electric cars… “no excuse” for any utility in Australia not to know what’s coming, he says, outlining world with little centralised power generation, 100 … Continue reading

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Deutsche Post wants to make its own electric vehicles

This week, Deutsche Post announced that serial production of the first 2,000 vehicles would begin this year. The goal is to produce a total of 30,000. The company also says that it has already received queries by third parties and is … Continue reading

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Netherlands Moves To Only Allow EV Sales By 2025 – End Of Gas, Petrol

In a majority vote, the lower house of Dutch parliament supported a motion to no longer allow new sales of petrol or diesel cars from 2025. Last year in Paris, eight US states and five countries (one of which being the Netherlands) joined the … Continue reading

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$10,623 Nissan Leaf – discount by non-profits BulkBuy

With a price of only $10,623 for LEAF S after tax credits and incentives, demand quickly exceeded expectations. In the first five days of the discount program, Tynan’s Nissan blew through its entire inventory of 2015 Nissan LEAFs. RMI believes that … Continue reading

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Adding an EV cut the payback point of our solar panel investment in half

Here’s a story from USA with 2011 prices for solar PV,  big bucks but…”That works out to $2,400 a year in gasoline savings and when added to the $2,500 in electricity bills we’re no longer paying each year, you get … Continue reading

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