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California Builder to Offer Pre-Wired Homes for Electric Car Owners

California-based Home builder KB Home will begin offering an option to have homes pre-wired to handle charging stations for electric vehicles, the San Jose Business Journal reported.
KB said the option is designed to ease the future installation of a station to charge an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle conveniently at home.
According to the San Jose [...]

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Fisker says 100,000 plug-in hybrids a year could be built at Delaware plant

Fisker Automotive CEO Henrik Fisker gave a presentation at the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner Monday night about his compnay’s plans to build plug-in vehicles (PHEVs) in Delaware. Over 450 people from the community where Fisker’s new plant (and General Motors’ old plant) is located heard Fisker speak about the Karma and [...]

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Study Says Big Impact of the Plug-In Hybrid Will Be Decades Away

Despite recent excitement about a type of electric car called a plug-in hybrid, such vehicles are unlikely to arrive in meaningful numbers for a few more decades, according to new analysis by the National Research Council.
The study, released on Monday, also found that the next generation of plug-in hybrids could require hundreds of billions of [...]

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Volvo C30 Electric Car

Volvo has now released more details of the all-electric C30 concept car it will launch at next week’s 2010 Detroit Auto Show. We covered early details a couple of weeks ago; here’s the rest of the story on the little electric hatchback with no tailpipe.
The electric C30 concept car will let the Swedish automaker assess [...]

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Ford to Spend $500M on Michigan Battery, Hybrid Production

Ford Motor Co. has outlined plans to invest as much as $500 million in Michigan to engineer and assemble battery packs for a new generation of electric vehicles and manufacture a new hybrid and plug-in hybrid here — if state lawmakers approve a request for tax credits it is submitting today in Lansing.
These moves would [...]

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