Charging your electric car is about to get that much easier.  The infrastructure is moving apace and helping to usher in this quiet  cleaner revolution.

ECOtality Electric Car Charging Stations – EV Project Stations – The Daily Green.

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If dreams of going offroad or driving along a beach include doing it in an ecofriendly and nearly silent 4×4, then this Tesla Toyota joint venture may set your heart racing.

After abandoning the project 7 years ago, when Toyota sold 328 of the RAV4 EVs they have brought it back with their new partner and there are big plans to make it ubiquitous.

Toyota, Tesla Resurrect the Electric RAV4 | Autopia | Wired.com.

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Waiting for the Electric Car Price War.

It’s coming, but how soon. This article explores when the prices of electric vehicles will start to be competitive.

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Rumormill: Toyota, Tesla to jointly develop electric prototype by year’s end — Autoblog.

Could be a really nice mainstream vehicle coming from the Japanese giant and the boutique electric sports car makers.

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History of the Electric Car – Automoblog.net.

Great infographic on this website about the evolution of electric cars. Makes us wonder why it has taken so long since we have had them for over a hundred years.

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The city of Baltimore have begun an electric car sharing program, where Electrovaya is renting out the Maya 300 for as low as $7.50 per hour.

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Hawaii is joing San Francisco in working with Better Place to have electric vehicle top up points throughout the island.

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I love how they spin this that Ford is doing a great thing and going to be producing electric and hybrid vehicles, in 3 to 4 years. Sure glad they weren’t in charge of tank production in World War Two. My point is, why does it take so long, when in the 1940′s the USA mobilised and retooled factories and got the armaments we needed. Well why are they not taking this situation we are in, i.e., dependent on foreign oil, the biggest priority since our march to defeat fascism? Like Rosie the Riveter said, We can do it. But only if we try, or, if the government makes them. If we wanted to, we could have those factories retooled in months, not years. No vision.

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The army plans to replace internal combustion fossil fuel vehicles and deploy a fleet of electric ones, up to ten thousand in the next few years.

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Ahh now retro fitting cars, that’s a great step forward.

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