To say that many questions remain about the Spark EV is putting it mildly.
At the closing bell, EV is up about 2.1%, while QEP is down about 1% on the day Wednesday.
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Spark EV is powered by an advanced electric motor and battery system.
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"The Chevrolet Spark EV is a great city car which blends technology, functionality and style in an unexpected package" said Cristi Landy, director of Chevrolet small and electrified vehicle marketing.
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Spark EV is the first all-electric vehicle in North America to offer optional SAE Combo DC Fast Charge capability, which can charge the battery to 80 percent of capacity in about 20 minutes.
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When it goes on sale next summer, the Spark EV is expected to have among the best EV battery range in its segment and be the first electric vehicle to offer SAE Combo DC Fast Charging capability, enabling the Spark EV to reach 80-percent battery charge in just 20 minutes.
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He said the EV Project is trying to deploy a total of 5, 000 public stations and 8, 000 residential chargers.
The top speed in EV mode is 85 miles per hour, which is 25 mph better than the Prius plug-in.
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Not everybody's down with that idea, and one of those EV detractors is the incredibly suave Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo.
Atlanta EV infrastructure is building as more plug-in electric vehicles become available.
The biggest barrier to joining the EV parade is the price of batteries, which are often more expensive than the vehicles they're situated inside.
The Auto EV mode is essentially electric-only most of the time unless you're standing on the gas -- in other words, if there's a demand for more power.
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As a long term holder of KNDI, I understand your frustration, but If you had been following the China press, particularly yesterday and today, you would have realized that the long awaited approval from Hangzhou for its 20, 000 EV program is finally about to happen with KNDI as the only logical participant.
The big question was whether Sprint would decide to use the same technology as Verizon, or would wait a little longer (thus delaying their rollout) to use EV-DV, which is similar to EV-DO but has better download and upload speeds (thus making it better for video calling).
Cracker Barrel is partnering with ECOtality and the federally sponsored EV Project, which is following Nissan Leaf rollout markets.
He pointed out that the next production in the upstairs theatre, Hero by EV Crowe, is already sold out in advance.
Installed by UGE Iberia, the Spanish branch of New York-based Urban Green Energy, the first wind-powered EV charging station is located at Cespa's global headquarters near Barcelona.
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For Nextel, the benefit of EV-DO is that handsets already exist, and it is possible to implement push-to-talk functionality, on a par with Nextel's existing service, on an EV-DO network.
All four of the aforementioned Prius models made the list along with three Hondas, the Civic Hybrid, Insight and the Fit EV (which is, unfortunately, is only sold in a few California metro areas).
Since the previous sentence probably only made sense to about four of our readers out there, we'll break it down for you: EV-DO is the same 3G wireless technology being used by Verizon for the next-generation network they're currently building, and has average download speeds of around 500 Kbps.
Google is obtaining the EV charging station location information from various sources including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the general public through the GeoEVSE Forum.
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The company is hosting the EV Experience Tour to help other businesses and key stakeholders understand technical and business approaches for deploying pure electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
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Powered by its lithium-ion battery, the CrossBlue can cover a distance of up to 14 miles as an EV, although top speed is reduced from 127 mph to 75 mph.
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Hence the logic of merging with Sprint, which is also committed to EV-DO.
In August, Car2Go will add five electric Smarts to its fleet in Germany, and is also installing 24 EV charging stations there.
Update: GigaOM now reports a Verizon official as stating that it already has a handful of markets running EV-DO Revision A as is, and while they intend to launch a Rev.
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Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) is testing out the EV-DO technology in several markets, and plans to roll it out to most of its major markets early next year.
The authors do not analyse individual countries, but Majeau-Bettez estimates that the global warming impact of an EV car driven in the UK is about 10% better over its life cycle than that of a car with an internal combustion engine.
The alternative is the industry's home-grown accounting standard, which is called Embedded Value (EV).
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