Tom Raftery's Library tagged "electric cars" →  View Popular, Search in Google

The government on Tuesday revealed the first nine electric vehicles that will be eligible for their purchasers to receive subsidies of up to 5,000 pounds under a plan to promote low-carbon transport.

Under the scheme, the government has pledged 43 million pounds until the end of March 2012 to help British motorists shift to low-carbon vehicles.

They will receive up to 5,000 pounds towards the purchase of a low-carbon car from January 2011 to the end of March 2012.

greennumbers uk electric cars electric vehicles subsidies low-carbon transport

Irish motorists who buy electric cars will be given a grant of up to €5,000 for the cost and will be exempted from paying vehicle registration tax (VRT), it has been announced.

electric car electric cars electric vehicles irish vrt greennumbers

Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported.

nissan leaf nissan greennumbers electric cars electric vehicles

"THE SURPRISING RESULTS of a TMR poll show that the impending release of electric cars into the Australian market may not meet the buyer resistance some may be expecting."

electric cars electric vehicle ev tmr survey australia better place greenmonktv

Electric cars and charging stations go together, but there's a kind of chicken & egg problem; who's going to build charging stations along highways and public roads if there are no electric cars, and who's going to buy a electric car if there are no charging stations? The French government seems to have decided that the way to crack this dilemma is to build a network of charging stations using taxpayer money as part of a broader initiative to encourage the development of clean vehicle technology and battery manufacturing in the country.

ev evs electric cars phev plug in hybrid france greennumbers electric car charging stations

It could take ten years or more to become apparent, but I’ll call it now: the electric car will replace the internal combustion engine.

A caveat: I am not an automotive industry expert. Which is why I’m right. I’m not mired in the details, the past failures, the what ifs or the buts. All I see are the big, obvious things. When it comes to sea change in human behavior, though, obvious matters.

So, since no prediction is worth its salt without an accompanying list, the following are five overlapping reasons why our children will all be driving electric cars...

electric cars ev bev phev internal combustion greenmonktv

When Better Place wanted to demonstrate how their battery switching station would operate they chose Yokohama Japan as the backdrop and now the land of the rising sun is returning some of that love. The electric vehicle infrastructure company has received an "award" to carry out a pilot project involving a switching station and battery-powered taxis operated by Nihon Kotsu in Tokyo. Although cabs comprise just two percent of the cars in Japan they're responsible for a whopping 20 percent of the CO2 emitted.

better place electric cars bev battery swap greenmonktv

It's a big planet with a lot of green happenings. Here's a sample of environmental headlines from everywhere:

china electric cars