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IBM charges into the battery business
While the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday issued nearly $8 billion in loans to Ford (F), Nissan and Tesla Motors to manufacture electric cars and batteries, IBM unveiled an initiative to develop...
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Think to sell electric drive trains
photo: Think Norwegian electric carmaker Think is going into the drive-train businesses with battery maker EnerDel and their first big customer is the Japanese postal service. Think makes the City, a...
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Norway’s Think is back in business — in Finland
photo: Think Norwegian electric car maker Think has exited bankruptcy protection and brought on board new investors. As I write in the New York Times Green Inc. blog today: Norwegian electric car...
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The Whip comes down: Wheego joins electric car race
Photo: Todd Woody In my Green State column for Grist on Thursday, I write about Wheego, an Atlanta startup that will soon begin selling an electric microcar called the Whip. I took the Whip for a spin...
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Mass market electric cars: It’s all about the software
photo: Better Place In today’s New York Times, I write about Better Place’s unveiling of its software platform for managing tens of thousands of electric cars on the road and the grid. Software as...
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How electric cars will drive solar power
photo: SolarCity In my new Green State column on Grist, I write about how SolarCity, a Silicon Valley rooftop solar installer, is getting into the electric-car charging station business: You can’t get...
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Test-driving Ford’s Model T of electric cars
photo: Todd Woody Ford executives brought a battery-powered Focus sedan to San Francisco on Thursday (along with a plug-in hybrid Escape). It was clear from the presentation by Nancy Gioia, Ford’s...
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Norway’s Think to build electric cars in Indiana
photo: Think In The New York Times on Tuesday, I write about Norwegian electric carmaker Think’s announcement that it will open its first U.S. assembly plant in Indiana: Think, the Norwegian electric...
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New York City ready for electric cars
photo: Think In The New York Times on Monday, I write about a new McKinsey report that looks at the potential for electric cars in three of the world’s “megacities” — New York, Paris and Shanghai: New...
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California to avoid regulating EV charging companies
photo: Better Place In The New York Times on Friday, I wrote about the latest developments in California’s efforts to write the rules of the road for an electric car infrastructure: California...
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Utilities want to move slow on EV fast-charging
The ability to fast-charge electric cars is seen as key to the adoption of battery-powered vehicles. But as I wrote in The New York Times on Thursday, utilities are worried such devices will overload...
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The electric car future is unfolding in San Francisco
photo: Todd Woody In a story I wrote with Clifford Krauss in Monday’s New York Times, I look at how the San Francisco Bay Area has is scrambling to prepare for the arrival of mass-market electric cars...
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GM California dreaming with the Chevy Volt
photo: Todd Woody In my new Green State column on Grist, I test drive the Chevrolet Volt in San Francisco and ponder if General Motors’ electric hybrid car will persuade Californians to buy American...
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Think to sell electric cars at Swiss supermarkets
photo: Think This post first appeared on Grist. “Honey, could you run down to the store and pick up some milk, tofu and one of those new Think City electric cars?” That could be a conversation you’ll...
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San Diego utility charges ahead with electric car plan
photo: Nissan This post first appeared on Grist. With the first mass-market electric cars set to hit California roads later this year, the state’s utilities have been working to ensure that early...
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GM reveals Volt sticker price: $41,000
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Tuesday, I write that General Motors has finally unveiled the retail price for the Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric hybrid: General Motors began taking orders...
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Volt vs. Leaf: Choosing your green drive
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Are you a Volt kind of gal or a Leaf guy? With General Motors and Nissan revving up to put the first mass-produced electric cars in showrooms in...
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Will Berkeley become an electric car capital?
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. With months to go before the first mass production electric cars hit American streets, the $41,000 question (before rebates and...
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The electric car battery conundrum
photo: Better Place In The New York Times on Monday, I wrote about the challenges of developing electric car batteries that will match the range of gasoline-powered vehicles: Silicon Valley may be an...
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Report: U.S. in fast lane for 1 million electric cars by 2015
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. When President Obama in his State of the Union address called for 1 million electric cars to be on the road by 2015, skeptics...
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