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Norway and Estonia are adopting Chademo: Energycompany Ishavskraft launch 2500 miles long fast-charge network - Electric A!D Mitsubishi Corp. to provide 507 i-MiEVs to Estonian Government; CHAdeMO quick charging network for the country | OnGreen i-MiEV comes with Chademo plug, and was the...

This standards issue for L3 charging should be given some wider publicity. Most of the press reporting about EVs coming to the market seem to be completely unaware of fast charge option in the first place. The situation seems to be : 1) Chademo/JARI is widely deployed in Japan, The EV Project...

Pininfarina/Bollore Bluecar Hey, Little unnoticed by the english-speaking press. Mitsubishi i-Miev launched, Subaru Stella as well, now Pininfarina/Bollore are taking orders for their BlueCar as well: Bluecar by Pininfarina Some more reports: Energy Harvesting Journal: Bluecar uses...

Reva/Goingreen G-Wiz is at the top of my list. Why ? Because there are like 800 on the roads right now, with no strings attached like lease only or something like that. They are reasonably affordable too, at 7000 british pounds. AC version just hit the streets, with lithium ion upgrade to follow...

You can get any of these: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~pscbrwm/cbev/buy.html There are nearly 800 G-Wizes on London streets already. It just got an AC upgrade, and will get lithium-ion battery upgrade next year. That, for £7K So who will be first to fill the oh-so-significant niche between...

Well, Leno's stance might be explained a bit by his definitely not pleasant encounter with a "curious" company called Hybrid Technologies .. Read here http://evdoesit.blogspot.com/2006/09/curious-case-of-hybrid-technologies.html#comments The company that so far has produced heaps of press...

RC enthusiasts over at http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=129 are confirming everywhere that these batteries are capable of being recharged in 15 minutes, with little observed loss in capacity. If you wanna test it firsthand, get a RC model and battery/charger from...

Using a ready chassis and powertrain from ICE car is clearly not optimal for EVs Witness Bollore's BlueCar http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/08/bollor-bluecar-almost-ready-to-roll/ http://www.batscap.com/en/actualites/ The car is basically designed around the batteries and powertrain, not the...