Lisboa acolhe conferência de mobilidade eléctrica

Portugal é hoje um dos países mais avançados na Mobilidade Eléctrica. A Conferência Mobilidade Eléctrica, que decorre dia 30 de Março, das 9h às 13h30 na Fundação Champalimaud, em Lisboa, é ponto de encontro dos principais agentes deste mercado, juntando utilizadores e gestores, empresas tecnológicas e de serviços, construtores de automóveis, consultores, empresas de energia e os operadores da rede MOBI....

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Estudo: Portugueses querem carro eléctrico

O inquérito realizado pelo Jornal de Negócios, Inteli e CEIIA revela que mais de metade dos inquiridos já pondera adquirir um carro eléctrico. De um universo de pouco mais de duas mil pessoas, 55,4% mostra intenção de comprar um automóvel movido exclusivamente a energia eléctrica. Isto, apesar de 76,2% dos inquiridos considerar que ainda não existe informação suficiente sobre este tipo de veículo...

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EU to become free of petrol-fuelled cars by 2050

From Deutsche Welle: Europe's cities could be free of petrol- and diesel-fuelled cars by 2050, under "very radical, very ambitious" targets set out by the European Commissio...

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MOBI.E electric tour percorre Portugal

Depois de Lisboa, a Peugeot e a MOBI.E levam os veículos eléctricos e o sistema nacional de mobilidade ao resto do país. Durante os próximos dois meses, 25 cidades portuguesas que integram a fase piloto da rede para a mobilidade eléctrica, onde existem postos de carregamento das bateria, vão receber a visita de carros eléctricos para que as populações locais possam experienciar uma condução ecológica e silenciosa proporcionada por estes veículos inovadore...

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VÍDEO: Eléctricos gastam menos de 2€ aos 100

SIC explica funcionamento dos veículos eléctricos e da rede Mobi.e, que até Junho disponibilizará em Portugal cerca de 1.300 postos de carregamento convencionais e cerca de 50 postos de carregamento rápid...

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Google Maps lists EV charging stations

From ÜberGizmo: Electric cars and similar types of vehicles look set to populate our roads more and more in the future, and that potential explosion can be unleashed when there are also enough places to charge up said modes of transportatio...

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Green industries will enjoy 'explosive' decade

From the LA Times: What a difference a decade makes. Once shunned as an industry only a tree-hugger could love, clean-tech has blossomed into an economic heavyweight, according to a report from research firm Clean Edge Inc. (click to download the repor...

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Renault apologises to 'spy' managers

From the AFP: Renault publicly apologised on Monday to three top managers it fired for allegedly selling key electric car secrets to China after it emerged the French automaker may have been the victim of frau...

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PSA pede incentivos para híbridos em Portugal

Rafael Prieto é director-geral da Peugeot numa zona que inclui Portugal, Espanha, Itália, Grécia e Turquia. Diz que as marcas automóveis vão ter de se reconverter rapidamente a novas tecnologias, perante a possibilidade de um novo choque petrolífero. E pede a Portugal que também incentive a aquisição de veículos híbridos, à semelhança do que sucede com os eléctrico...

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Range Anxiety: Fact or Fiction?

From National Geographic: One spring day in 2009, software engineer Bill Arnett slid behind the wheel of his new electric Tesla Roadster and set off toward Yosemite National Park, a journey of about 200 miles from his home in Redwood City, California. Far from urban centers and up through the Sierra Nevada foothills, this is the sort of road trip that's supposed to strike fear in the heart of an electric car driver. "Range anxiety" is the name for angst over being stranded with a dead battery,...

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Pininfarina and Bollore sign EV deal

Italian car designer and niche producer Pininfarina has signed a deal with France's Bollore group for electric car production for Paris's Autolib project, Reuters reported on Thursday. The deal strengthens the existing electric car ties between Pininfarina and French businessman Vincent Bollore, whom Pininfarina Chief Executive Silvio Angori would also like as an investor in Pininfarina itself Under the contract signed on Wednesday, Pininfarina rents a plant and supplies staff for Italian car...

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Aposta eléctrica destaca Almada na Europa

Almada é uma das três cidades finalistas do prémio que anualmente distingue a participação "mais efectiva e inovadora" na Semana Europeia da Mobilidade. Riga, na Letónia, e Múrcia, em Espanha, são as outras candidatas ao título, que vai ser entregue a 14 de Março. De acordo com o jornal PÚBLICO, citado pelo portal Mobi.e, "o júri que avaliou as candidaturas ao prémio destacou em relação a Almada o esforço na promoção de alternativas sustentáveis de mobilidade junto de diferentes públicos-alvo,...

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Renault Twingo eléctrico chega em 2014

A Renault anunciou a construção de mais um carro eléctrico, o Twingo ZE. Segundo Jacques Bousquet, responsável da divisão italiana da marca francesa, o lançamento da versão eléctrica do Renault Twingo está previsto para o segundo semestre de 2014, noticia o portal Mobi.e, citando o portal Autohoje. Jacques Bousquet afirmou ainda que o processo de criação deste que já é o quinto modelo eléctrico da marca francesa teve como grande contributo a aliança criada com a construtora alemã Daimler. Segundo...

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Wikileaks cables cast doubts on BYD

From Reuters: An ordinary American investor would probably not put money into a foreign electric car start-up suspected of openly copying competitors, let alone one whose franchised dealers occasionally put other companies' logos on its own vehicles. But Warren Buffett is no ordinary investor, and China's BYD is no ordinary company. At the depths of the financial crisis, Buffett put $232 million into BYD Co. Ltd. (1211.HK), taking a 9.9 percent stake in the nascent Chinese auto business. Lest...

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Deloitte: Mass adoption of EVs still far away

Despite rising fuel prices, the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is still some distance away, is the finding of a new study by Deloitte, the business advisory firm. According to the survey of 4,760 European consumers, only 16% see themselves as potential first movers to buy or lease an electric vehicle, while 53% say they might be willing to consider it, and 31 percent say they are not likely to consider purchasing or leasing an EV. David Raistrick, automotive partner and head of manufacturing...

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Espionagem na Renault: um falso alarme?

Do Wall Street Journal: Foi uma das alegações de espionagem industrial mais sensacionais já feitas na indústria automobilística mundial: em janeiro, a Renault SA acusou três executivos de vender segredos de tecnologia de carros elétricos. Houve sugestões de que os compradores eram "os chineses". O ministro francês da Indústria, Eric Besson, disse que o roubo era equivalente a "uma guerra econômica". A Renault suspeitava que o dinheiro recebido estava guardado em contas bancárias na Suíça e em Liechtenstein. Dois...

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Japan vending machines to charge electric cars

From the AFP: Ten Japanese companies said Monday they plan to install electric vehicle chargers at the sites of beverage vending machines across Japan in a cost-cutting tie-up. The consortium includes Forking Co., a major vending machine operator, and Panasonic Electric Works which will develop and produce electric vehicle chargers with rivals. Forking has business ties with companies which own a combined 1.2 million vending machines across Japan, or about a half of the national total, company...

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iPhone app connects EV owners with plugs

From the LA Times: Electrical outlets are everywhere. Finding and accessing them to recharge electric vehicles, however, is another issue. While the U.S. government has invested $115 million to build 15,000 public chargers across the country, they are only starting to be installed. Even then, there could be a shortage of available public plugs for EV drivers, the ranks of whom are expected to swell to 1 million by 2015. Stepping in with a solution is a new free iPhone app, PlugShare. Available...

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VIDEO: Hybrid vehicles getting more popular

From KABC: Hybrid vehicles that use a gasoline engine and a battery electric motor save fuel, and keep getting more and more popular. But they started out as a bit of an oddity. It was 12 years ago that Toyota began selling the original generation of the Prius. It didn't exactly fly out the door at first. "When we launched this vehicle 12 years ago, a good year was 13-14-15,000, now a good month is about that volume," said Jim Lentz, president and COO of Toyota Motor Sales USA. The Prius is a...

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LA colleges lose millions in flawed green plans

From the LA Times: Larry Eisenberg had a vision. "Amazing," he called it. "Spectacular." The Los Angeles Community College District would become a paragon of clean energy. By generating solar, wind and geothermal power, the district would supply all its electricity needs. Not only would the nine colleges sever ties to the grid, saving millions of dollars a year, they would make money by selling surplus power. Thanks to state and federal subsidies, construction of the green energy projects would...

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VIDEO: Rolls-Royce revela Phantom eléctrico

Da BBC Brasil: A fabricante britânica de carros de luxo Rolls-Royce apresentou esta semana no Salão do Automóvel de Genebra, na Suíça, uma versão eléctrica do modelo Phantom.O veículo recebe o nome de Phantom Experimental Electric. Por enquanto, o veículo não será produzido em larga escala, já que a companhia quer avaliar antes a opinião dos seus clientes.Em entrevista à BBC, o presidente-executivo da Rolls-Royce, Torsten Muller Otvos, disse que é bastante caro investir num modelo completamente...

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China quer autocarro eléctrico made in Portugal

O grupo industrial chinês BYD (Build Your Dreams) está interessado em Portugal. "Queremos vender automóveis eléctricos no mercado português, mas também estamos abertos a montar um projecto industrial destinado a produzir os nossos autocarros eléctricos", declarou o director-geral sénior da BYD Henry Li, à margem do Salão Automóvel de Genebra, ao semanário Expresso. "Creio que há possibilidade de estudarmos formas de cooperação com unidades industriais portuguesas para fabricarmos autocarros no...

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Coda aims to sell 50.000 electric cars by 2015

From Reuters/Cnet: Electric car start-up Coda Automotive aims to sell 50,000 vehicles by 2015, mostly in the United States, chief executive Phil Murtaugh told reporters today.Coda, like Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive, is one of several new companies that are banking on mass-market adoption of electric vehicles. Major automakers including Nissan Motor and General Motors are also racing to launch electric cars.Coda is making its first vehicle, the Coda EV, in China in partnership with Hafei, which...

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Toyota to sell home electric-car chargers

From Reuters/Cnet: Toyota Motor will launch home battery chargers for electric and plug-in hybrid cars next year as it starts selling new models of environmentally friendly cars, the Nikkei business daily reported today.The chargers, which will also be compatible with non-Toyota cars, will come in two types, the Nikkei reported, citing company sources. One would extend from the exterior wall of a home and the other would be for setting up in a garage.The company expects to sell 20,000 to 30,000...

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Táxis eléctricos entram ao serviço na China

Do Jornal do Brasil: Táxis elétricos já estão cruzando as ruas de um dos países mais poluentes do mundo, a China, informou a agência EcoDesenvolvimento. Dos 5 mil veículos verdes previstos para entrarem em circulação até 2012, 50 já estão transportando passageiros pelo distrito de Yanqing, perto de Pequim, como afirmou a Xinhua, agência oficial da China.A economia que estes táxis elétricos trarão será da quantia de US$ 4,5 mil em combustível de veículo, gerando uma economia de cada unidade equivalente...

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Renault Twizy could cost less than 7.000 euros

From the Renault-Nissan blog: Great press conference at the Geneva auto show from Renault’s design chief Laurens Van Den Acker who took the limelight to unveil two new concepts – and the pricing for the Twizy EV, a price that took most observers by surprise.There wasn’t enough room on the stand for all the journalists who wanted to attend and they spilled over onto adjacent stands; here was a good indication of the high expectation that something special was going to be unveiled. And Laurens and...

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A dozen EV models exhibited in Geneva

Electric cars (okay, and hybrids) are definitely the stars at the 2011 Geneva Auto Show in Switzerland. Here's a list of the models unveiled or exhibited this week:Ford Focus electricThe 2012 Focus family comes with an electric version with the capability to fully charge in three to four hours total.Chevrolet Volt The American Car of the Year 2011, a hybrid already available for order in the US, is still one of the stars in Geneva. Its European cousin, the Opel Ampera, will soon roll out to the...

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BMW i8 to star in Mission Impossible IV

Tom Cruise will drive the electric/diesel hybrid i8 in new Mission Impossible film The Ghost Protocol, says The Sun. And it will go on sale in 2013 as part of a radical brand of BMW electric/hybrid cars. The brand, launched this week in Munich, will be called BMWi - with the first models an electric city car, the BMW i3, and the high-performance i8 coupé. The i3 will be a zero-emission all-electric supermini with room for four and a range in excess of 100 miles. It is aimed at commuters around...

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