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Portugal and Renault-Nissan Alliance Partner Directly on EVs; Consumer Sales Begin in 2011
The Government of Portugal and the Renault Nissan Alliance have formed a partnership to bring together public and private sectors to create the necessary conditions to make zero-emission vehicle

France’s Borloo says 2nd EPR ‘marginal’ for electricity production
Renault signed a deal with California-based Project Better Place in January to begin mass producing electric cars in France.

Return of Inductive Charging?
If Project Better Place plans to go the inductive route--and a Germany company developed the pavement based charging system some years ago--that won't preclude the systems ability to pass current b

Taking Charge
As attentions turn to the electric vehicles (EVs) in the race to clean up the world's roads, Renault-Nissan has achieved something of a coup.

Agassi presents Congress with US electric car figures
For the price of two months worth of oil, some $100 billion, we can put in place the infrastructure needed to power the nation's cars and end this oil dependence.

Electric car inventor drives his point home to US house of representatives
A Boffin told the US House of Representatives that a US electric car infrastructure could be set up for the price of only two months' worth of oil. Shai Agassi CEO of Project Better Place argued that for "100 billion, we can put in place the infrastructure needed to power the nation's cars and end this oil dependence."

Shai Agassi pitches $100 billion plan
No one could ever accuse Shai Agassi, the man behind electric-car infrastructure company Project Better Place, of not being ambitious. He has been all over the planet making deals with major car makers and various countries.

Agassi presents Congress with US electric car figures
For the price of two months worth of oil, some $100 billion, we can put in place the infrastructure needed to power the nation's cars and end this oil dependence," Project Better Place CEO Shai Agassi told the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming at a hearing last week.

New Battery Technology “In the Works” Years Before McCain’s $300 Million Proposal to Award a “Breakthrough”
Another major project is Shai Agassi's Better Place electric vehicle, an ambitious Israeli program to create a network of electric cars, charging stations, and battery swapping facilities, all powered by renewable electric sources such as wind and solar.

Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars
...Electricity in transportation has to be done. It is urgent. It is important that everything else is secondary, [Former Intel Corp. Chairman Andy] Grove said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

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