Wednesday, February 22, 2012
NovaCharge, a national maker of electric vehicle charging stations, only had one charger in the Tampa area a year ago. Today it has more than 200. The electric vehicle industry, though still just a blip compared to its gas-powered competition, is growing quickly across the country. Organizers of the EV International Expo are trying to [...]
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. (Smith), a global leader in all-electric commercial vehicles, announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Wanxiang Group, a global leader in automotive parts manufacturing and supply. The principal terms include a $25 million equity investment in Smith by Wanxiang and up to a $75 million investment in a [...]
Monday, February 20, 2012
Smith Electric Vehicles and China’s biggest automotive components manufacturer are entering into a joint venture to manufacture commercial electric vehicles (EVs) in China. Wanxiang will take a $25 million equity stake in Smith Electric and invest up to $75 million in their joint venture to develop, manufacture and commercialize electric school buses and commercial vehicles for multiple industries in [...]
Monday, February 20, 2012
February 19, 2012 By Steve Duda Ernst Young makes its money giving advice and telling people what to do. The massive global accounting and consulting giant just concluded talks with the bigwigs of the electric vehicle industry in Bonn, Detroit and Beijing and they’ve got some rather bracing advice for the burgeoning electric car industry: [...]
Monday, February 20, 2012
Electric Vehicles and Power Sources: Technologies and Global Markets This report is intended to supply a special analysis of the broadly defined global electric vehicle industry and will be of interest to all varieties of automakers, manufacturers of batteries, battery chargers, and fuel cells. It also will be valuable to current and existing electrical vehicle [...]
Monday, February 20, 2012
Due to the low refuelling costs and exemption from congestion charges, the electric vehicles have become acknowledged as the lowest costs on a lifespan basis, compared to diesel and hybrid-powered cars. To find out how much it would cost to live with an electric car, we take a look at the cost of the car [...]
Monday, February 20, 2012
Carlos Ghosn knows that the writing is on the wall, if you want to succeed you have to enter China but getting into China is a whole different story in 2012. When the French car maker initially entered China as the partner to San Jiang Motors in the late 1990′s entry into the Chinese market [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
The electric vehicle industry – land, water and air – is rapidly rising to become a huge market of over $200 billion in 2022 at ex-factory prices. Some run entirely on harvested energy as with solar lake boats. Others recycle energy as with regenerative braking of cars, buses and military vehicles harvesting kinetic energy. Others [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
This report is for CEOs, marketing, sales, business planning VPs and their teams. It is for suppliers, users and potential users, component and service providers, government agencies, investors, analysts and planners. It is uniquely up to date and comprehensive. This is very important because, in the last year, there have been radical changes in Real [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
This report spells out the Rules of the Marketplace and sets them against the activities of many organisations active in the electric vehicle (EV) value chain to explain how to create success. It analyses the finances and positioning of many suppliers of EVs and their components, covering hybrid and pure electric vehicles for land, water [...]