In addition to offering these protective, charging cases, Nokia's also introducing a wireless charging car dock with NFC, so users can juice up and launch the Drive app while they... drive.
Sprint has also partnered with ECOtality, an electric car charging company, to connect its electric car chargers throughout the country.
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Details on the car like the auto-open charging lid and the car-shaped key fob with corresponding pressure points show that innovative thinking found its way into every aspect of the vehicle.
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The settlement will benefit NRG, which has gotten into the electric car charging station business and branded it eVgo.
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Better Place has also struck deals to build electric car charging networks in the San Francisco Bay Area, Canada and Hawaii.
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Not bad for a startup that has yet to launch its networks of electric car charging posts and battery swapping stations.
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Partly for this reason, Better Place, a company that creates electric car charging networks, has focused heavily on the Danish market.
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Wartena started GELI in 2010 to tackle the emerging markets of storing renewable energy such as solar power and for managing electric car charging.
Stansted's second runway is due to be ready by 2011, with Heathrow to get a third by 2020 if it meets environmental targets such as a car charging scheme.
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Solar-powered electric car charging stations should soon be scattered across the United States now that Mitsubishi has launched its first of these facilities at its North American headquarters in Cypress, California.
It rates U.S. hotels from bronze to platinum based on their environmental practices: linen and towel reuse, recycling, composting, energy efficient appliances, solar panels, electric car charging stations, green roofing and more.
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Better Place, which was founded a few miles from Tesla Motors in Palo Alto, has spent the past few years buildings its first electric car charging networks in Israel and Denmark.
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But there are at least two major obstacles hindering wider adoption of plug-in electric vehicles: the premium that drivers will have to pay for an electric car compared with a gas-powered vehicle and the limited number of electric car charging stations nationwide.
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Rive says SolarCity has also installed about 750 home charging stations for electric car drivers.
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One emerging play in car-charging stations is little-known CarCharging Group (CCGI), a pioneer in nationwide public electric-vehicle charging services.
In truth, the more electric-powered vehicles get on the road, the higher the demand will be for car-charging stations.
NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.
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The coiled cord is tangle-resistant and easier to manage, while the length permits users to handle their device anywhere in the car while still charging.
This gauge also lets you know when the car goes into regenerative charging mode.
It can take 22 hours or more to charge an electric car using basic Chademo charging.
These two variables (range and charging time) are related to the car itself and are things Tesla can deal with.
Along with the initial high cost of purchasing an electric car, the lack of charging stations across the country is a big deterrent for consumers looking to buy electric cars.
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Back in June I wrote about electric car road rage after I found someone had unplugged the battery-powered Ford Focus I was charging at a public parking garage so they could juice their own electric car.
Motor Trend drove the car for almost 300 miles, charging at night and going through a routine of freeway and stop-start city driving.
It had also considered changes to the refuse collections by charging residents for brown waste collections and introducing some car parking charges.
In both cases the sockets will allow fast-charging and will include a communications interface so an electric car can, for instance, identify itself for billing purposes when plugged into a public recharging spot.
According to the City of York Council, the charging technology can add a 30-mile range to a car's battery within a half hour of use.
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Building a charging network has always been seen as a must to promote electric car driving.
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He eventually ended up having the car towed on a flat-bed to the final charging station.
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