Albert is a development mechanical engineer working on what his company hopes will be Croatia's first electric car.
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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Last week, Ford announced that the 2012 Focus Electric would be the pace car at the Richmond 400, making it the first all-electric pace car to ever lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Around this time next year, General Motorswill unveil its first all-electric car since the EV-1.
Bearing the Mercedes star as an unmistakable trademark, the B-Class Electric Drive will be launched first in the USA at the beginning of 2014, where it will be the first luxury battery electric car from Mercedes-Benz in the market.
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He became chief engineer for the Prius, the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car, in 1996.
That unique hot rodding legacy will return in a wholly unique way as NORRA today announced the entry of the first ever all-electric off-road race car, the SRI EV1 into this week's four-day General Tire Mexican 1000 rally.
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Tesla's share price has soared this year on rave reviews for its electric car, growing sales and its first quarterly profit.
In a neighboring hall at the Paris show, Audi is teasing visitors with the eTron Spyder, a convertible version of the high-performance electric sports car the Volkswagen AG luxury subsidiary first previewed at the Frankfurt Motor Show a year ago.
First he made the Tesla roadster, an eco-friendly electric car for the ultra-rich speed-freak, then he set to work as CEO of a private space company.
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The upstart electric-car company announced the delivery of the first nine production Roadsters to customers in California earlier this week, with several more to follow at the rate of four per week, and the plan is to start building 100 a month by December, when that new transmission is ready.
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First, A123 filed for bankruptcy and agreed to sell its electric car battery business to Johnson Controls, apparently cutting out Wanxiang Group Corp.
Their first test in October 2007 was a success: An all-electric car plugged in at the University of Delaware and rigged with communication software responded to a signal from PJM for a sudden burst of power to help balance supply and demand on the grid.
What I love about Tesla is that they were the first company to prove that for a certain segment of the market, an electric car can be better than its gas-powered cousin.
In electric-only mode, the car's silence seemed unnerving at first but that feeling soon faded.
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There's still a bright future for electric vehicles though -- electric car maker Tesla Motors announced that it turned a profit in the first quarter of 2013 for the first time, as sales of the Model S exceeded expectations.
The company has created hundreds of American automotive jobs and its first model, the Roadster sports car, lit a fire under Detroit to begin producing electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars but with less success.
The e20 is a second act for electric car maker Reva, which for more than a decade struggled to win acceptance of its first offering, the REVAi.
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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.
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