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- San Jose Leading Electric Vehicle Charge
- EEStor CEO: ZENN Will Get Ultracapacitors by End of Year
- Making Biodiesel Better With Waste Shrimp Shells
- Coda Automotive Gets $24 Million Investment for All-Electric Sedan
- Toyota Release Details of All-Electric iQ
- Smith Electric Vehicles Goes to Washington
| San Jose Leading Electric Vehicle Charge Posted: 29 Jul 2009 01:26 PM PDT Editor’s Note: John Gartner is Editor in Chief of Matter Network and an Industry Analyst at Pike Research While San Francisco and Portland are each publicly claiming they’ll have the best electric vehicle networks in place in their cities, San Jose may be have made the most progress. The city of San Jose has installed 7 charging stations so far, including spots at City Hall and a public parking garage. At the charging locations vehicle owners don’t pay for the power; instead they are charged based on the time in the parking spot. To simplify payment, EV owners get a keychain fob that’s connected to their credit card.       |
| EEStor CEO: ZENN Will Get Ultracapacitors by End of Year Posted: 29 Jul 2009 11:59 AM PDT In a somewhat suspect interview that was posted to the web and then subsequently removed (but not before being turned into a transcript), Dick Weir — the clandestine CEO of the even more secretive EEStor — was caught on tape in a 30 minute interview covering many topics that fervent followers of the company have been curious about for a long time.     |
| Making Biodiesel Better With Waste Shrimp Shells Posted: 29 Jul 2009 09:43 AM PDT In a study to be published in August, Chinese researchers have found that waste shrimp shells can be converted into a material that makes biodiesel production faster, cheaper and more environmentally-friendly.     |
| Coda Automotive Gets $24 Million Investment for All-Electric Sedan Posted: 29 Jul 2009 03:12 AM PDT Santa Monica, California-based EV start-up Coda Automotive has raised a cool $24 Million to support the development and 2010 California market entry of its all-electric sedan and funding of its battery manufacturing joint venture. The funds came after a successful bid under the Series B Investment Round, backed by a team including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. & Farallon Capital Founder Thomas F. Steyer. In a press release Kevin Czinger, president and CEO, Coda Automotive said, "Coda's ability to raise capital under challenging market conditions and the caliber of our investors attest to the strength of our business model (video) and the opportunity that exists in the electric car and battery sectors."     |
| Toyota Release Details of All-Electric iQ Posted: 29 Jul 2009 02:36 AM PDT Toyota has revealed that its eagerly anticipated iQ-based all-electric car will receive its own individual body-style makeover, to create a stand-alone model set to become Toyota's first all-electric car. It appears that the electric iQ, due for launch in 2010, will not be pushed in the same market sectors as the original. Speaking about the strategy Hiroki Nakajima, chief engineer for the iQ said, "We wanted to position the iQ as premium, but not so the BEV (battery electric vehicle)." Perhaps they think that your average EV user is a little more low-rent than other drivers?     |
| Smith Electric Vehicles Goes to Washington Posted: 28 Jul 2009 05:54 PM PDT
But it delivered them on The Mall in hopes of snagging some attention from lawmakers on the Hill. In this debut it was following the example of Plug-In America that got some great EV legislation passed by publicizing to the Senate just what electric vehicles can do for America.     |
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