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Whatever Happened to the VC-Backed Startup Class of 2010?

GreenTechMedia

Remember 2010? On the fire-sale side, meanwhile, the biggest loss is likely to have been with an electric vehicle charging company called Better Place. Back in 2010, we listed Tesla Motors, which had just shipped its first thousand Roadsters, as “the little EV company that might.” It was also a time when U.S.

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LS Power Acquires Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Specialist EVgo

GreenTechMedia

LS Power has added EVgo's electric vehicle public fast-charger business to its portfolio of power plants and businesses. EVgo started life at power producer NRG in 2010, part of CEO David Crane's push for forward-looking clean energy businesses.

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Reducing cars’ emissions easier said than done, says EU audit institution

Envirotec Magazine

Electric vehicles can help the EU to come close to a zero-emissions car fleet. Since 2010, the “Cars CO₂ Regulation” has set an EU fleet-wide target for average CO₂ emissions from newly registered cars. But the road ahead is bumpy, as the EU faces significant difficulties in accelerating the uptake of electric vehicles.

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Total snaps up London's largest electric vehicle charging network

Business Green

Total is set to take over operation of London's largest electric vehicle charging network, after today announcing it has completed the acquisition of Blue Point London, the EV charging arm of French transportation firm Bolloré Group. said Alexis Vovk, president, marketing and services at Total.

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ABB opens new Virginia manufacturing facility for commercial electric vehicles

Charged

The new facility will produce converters and batteries for the railway and transportation industries, electric off-road construction and mining machinery and electric buses. Since 2010, ABB has invested $14 billion in plant expansions and improvements in the US, the company’s largest market.

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WoodMac: A New Battery Chemistry Will Lead the Stationary Energy Storage Market by 2030

GreenTechMedia

As demand from electric vehicles and the stationary storage market both skyrocket this decade, evolving performance priorities will create a divergence between the types of batteries used for storage and those used for EV applications. Historically, the ESS market has mostly deployed NMC batteries.

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Former Top Gear Host Quits Motoring Lobby Group Over Electric Vehicle ‘Urban Myths’

DeSmogBlog

Former Top Gear host Quentin Willson has acrimoniously quit a motoring lobby group currently working with a group of MPs to stop the government’s planned phase-out of petrol and diesel cars, accusing it of spreading “old urban myths” about electric vehicles. Willson did not respond to a request for comment.