Electric vehicles

Oman is going make electric cars, according to a company executive in the oil rich - and sun rich - state.

US electric automaker Tesla Motors has gone public.

In March 2010, BAE Systems has received a contract to develop an onboard vehicle power management system designed to improve U.S. Marine Corps mission effectiveness by significantly increasing electric power available to ground forces.

In 2009, BAE Systems reported sales of £22.4 billion (US$ 36.2 billion). BAE Systems is a global defence, security and aerospace company with approximately 107,000 employees worldwide.

In 2009, the Chinese Government designated five cities, including Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing, as the test ground for using clean-energy vehicles for public transportation and city trucks and cars, and then added seven more urban centres to that list.

Siemens Energy, Inc. and Coulomb Technologies, Inc. announce joint marketing agreement for an integrated EV product offering in the E-mobility market .

The first results of a UK-wide electric and low carbon vehicle testing project have been published

The term Smart Grid has been used for decades to mean anything from "a ring main for a country" to the far more responsive, interactive and intrusive electricity distribution systems of the future. These will become fractal in nature because they will seamlessly incorporate home networks, smart meters, electricity generation on your house and maybe even personal generation and use of electricity as reported in Energy Harvesting Journal.

A large number of Chinese car manufacturers - possibly more than the rest of the world combined - are now offering electric microcars.

MIT researchers report this month that they have found a way to produce a tenfold increase in the power delivery ("power density") of lithium ion batteries.

Here come hybrids

Taiwan makes electric bicycles but mainly with most of the added value being in China, often by collaboration, in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers.

Golf cars

Inventor Nick Schotter contact@4-mc.co.uk has developed a four wheel scooter that is far less likely to fall over than a two wheeled one.

China makes and uses over 90% of the world's e-bikes. It also makes pure electric forklifts and other heavy industrial EVs, though with little attempt to export them as yet.

Green Vehicle Expo heads to Shanghai June 17-19.

manufacturing plant will produce 2,500 electric buses a year, and employ around 1,300 workers over the next five years

The electric vehicle business is over $33 billion today at ex factory prices but cars are less than half of that. As the market nearly quintuples over the next ten years, cars will rise to nearly 55% of the business but the devil is in the detail...

Hybrid Jaguars will include the XJ and XF and eventually every model

Manufacturing at shuttered Delaware GM plant expected to create over 2,000 jobs