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Friday March 13, 2009
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Think, the Norwegian electric car manufacturer, announced Thursday that it will open a factory in the United States in 2010 to produce its Wi-Fi and GPS-enabled City low-speed electric vehicle, according to Fortune's Green Wombat blog. The company is only planning to build 2,500 vehicles in the first year of operation, however, and all of them are reserved for demo vehicles and fleet sales.
"The U.S. is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for EVs and is an ideal location to engineer and build EVs," Think CEO and former Ford exec Richard Canny said in a statement. "We see ourselves playing a small but potentially growing role in re-inventing the U.S. auto industry by bringing back new manufacturing jobs to the U.S."
This is the same company that almost folded a few months ago due to lack of investment capital. However, the company said that they're able to raise more funds from existing investors like G.E., at least to resume production in Norway. Think also plans to apply for a loan from the U.S. Department of Energy under its Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program to help pay for the U.S. factory, according to the report.
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March 14, 2009 10:40 AM
I used to take this book that had all kinds of car makers in the book and one that cought my eye was this Guy had made a total electric car that would go 600 hundred miles on a charge and that after 600 hundred miles, then you charge the batterys in about the time that you could drink a coke and eat a small cake, then your batterys would be charge up and ready for another 600 hundred miles.He said if He could get the Goverment to help out that He could build then for about the same price as buying a sports car. would need charge stations, so when you needed to charge the car batters, then you would pull into this charge station, as if you were going to get gas, but only to charge your car batterys. I just wanted to pass this on to you, as this was in a book a few years age, probably early 2000. Thanks. B.B.
March 14, 2009 11:33 AM
I believe an electric car could be made with a changeble battery. Let the service stations keep charged batterys instead of gas. When your battery gets low pull into the station and pay fee for acharged battery. The car owner would not own the battery. service stations would be converted into battery stations instead of gasoline stations.The batterys would be in a rack which could be removed with a pallet or fork lift.
March 14, 2009 9:51 PM
How about an electric car with the electricity not only turning the drive wheel(s) but at the same time turning a belt that turns a generator that re-electrifies the batteries while you are runni ng. This way, it could run indefinitely without stopping to plug it in.
March 15, 2009 10:01 PM
I think the technology is there.We could use this for public use & save the oil for the military
March 15, 2009 11:16 PM
This is good news as the more competition there is out there, the more viable electric vehicles will become.
March 16, 2009 12:50 PM
I believe now that we have a president that is not tied into the oil industry, this could be the chance to take back the control, that was lost when the oil industry started holding us prisoner to thier demands, also could be the turning point when we can make a difference in climate change. But I don't see it happeneing to soon, because of powerful political and greedy people at the top.