Electric cars will be at the heart of Frost & Sullivan’s upcoming annual industry event ‘Urban Mobility 3.0: OEMs New Mobility Offerings and New Business Models Linking Web 2.0’.

Two electric vehicles Renault ZOEs set out on the speed ring at the Aubevoye technical centre (CTA) in Normandy.

With gas prices north of $4 a gallon, and state-wide incentives given for hybrid and electric vehicles, the Volt?s efficiency puts it at the top of the list of consumer choices.

With this development, the OpConnect charging stations will be used to recharge Enterprise’s growing fleet of electric vehicles.

The commodity value of recoverable metals in most lithium-ion batteries ranges from $0.50 to $5 a pound.

In 2011, China only sold 8000 electric cars, accounting for less than 1% of the total global sales volume.

Automobile manufacturers began to introduce mass marketed plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in 2010. Most of these electric cars include at least basic telematics systems

Electric vehicles, Toprak said, won’t sell en masse until customers know they will ultimately save enough to take a risk on new technology.

In the first five months of this year, deliveries of electric vehicles without CO2 emissions and lithium ion batteries totaled 1,650, including electric cars and other electric vehicles.

These discussions will lead to Liberty technology being used to convert conventional internal combustion engine driven vehicles into zero emission electric vehicles.

The electric vehicles are equipped with an electric drive and is modified to carry advanced lithium ion batteries from MHI.

Kandi Technologies is a leading Chinese manufacturer and developer of pure electric vehicles (EVs) and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).

It is also expected that increasing fuel prices will accelerate the introduction of plug in hybrid and battery electric vehicles. In 2012 alone, the industry will witness about 15 new electric car launches.

The most widely used batteries for low emission vehicle market are lead-acid batteries, Nickel-Cadmium batteries (NiCad), metal hydride batteries (NimH), and lithium ion batteries.

Nissan is supplying New York City with fuel-efficient cabs, including six electric cars for testing.

In January, Nissan debuted the NV200-based Evalia in India, while this month Nissan said it will produce an all-electric NV200 in Barcelona, building on tests in Japan and Europe.

Meralco is planning to manufacture its own electric cars with lithium ion batteries, in a bid to reduce Philippines? carbon footprint.

Nissan is supplying New York City with six electric cars for testing, but acknowledged uncertainties about an ongoing debate over charging standards for electric vehicles.

With the electric car production set to grow at a CAGR of over 80 per cent until 2017, plastics used in these electric cars will also see a tremendous growth.

Yulon Group, one of Taiwan’s leading automakers, said that it will not give up efforts to develop purely electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries.