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You may already know this from elsewhere. Tomorrow, March 1st, 2012 sees the launch of the Electric Vehicle Association Scotland. We are having our launch meeting at Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh from 2pm, with EVs (cars and e-bikes) arriving for display outside from 1pm. There is charging...

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Anyone see the Carbon Footprint Elephant-in-the-Room? All this flying to ride in an electric car? Hate to be a party pooper, and I really want to go, but if I do it could only be because I had to be in the close area anyway for some other essential reason. The European alternative is to see...

Having been in Japan many times and seen how ubiquitous vending machines are as items of "street furniture" I am very impressed with this idea: Japan becomes home to electric vehicle charging vending machines I also understand that either Lawson or 7/11 stores (or maybe both) in Japan are...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-26/turkey-to-tax-electric-cars-up-to-15-percent-haberturk-says.html?cmpid=yhoo The article says a variable level of tax will be applied from 3% or EVs under 84kW up to 15% for this over 120kW (e.g. Tesla Roadster). Is this a strange negative EV...

There is a very nice blog post here (http://www.myhev.com/hybrid-vehicle/hybrid-vehicle-–-rediscovering-the-canals) on the developments in the Netherlands on electric canal barges. I especially like the battery electric canal barge with crane used in Utrecht to deliver to stores, thereby...

Happy New Year! 2011 should be very significant in the introductions of EVs. Here's wishing everyone on TMC a great year! Andrew

http://www.clim-atic.org/WP4_EV_Scotland.html This vehicle is going to be driven by 70 volunteers. In my view it's a bad choice as it's too complicated - just read the instructions for driving and charging it. Also very scary: e.g. "EXPLOSIVE VAPOURISATION" risk! To expect all 70 volunteers to...

I got email today from Don Cochrane of Tesla in the UK saying that next year Tesla will offer Right Hand Drive models. This is a significant indicator in my view of good company health and credible market expansion in prospect. Right Hand Drive models obviously open up UK sales much more...