Electric Car News

A parking plot near a highway between Tokio and Yokohama now has a high-spec charging point system for electric cars. It was unveiled by the Kanagawa governor Shigefumi Matsuzawa who expressed his excitement about popularizing environmentally friendly cars in the community.
This high-speed charger takes just 15 to 30 minutes (depending on your electric car model) to fill the Li-ion batteries to 80%. Similar chargers are also installed near Metropolitan Expressway and Hanshin Expressway. More parking plots will be equipped with charging points next year.

A short one on the same note about France. The politicians have hinted that they would be prepared to pay up to EUR5,000 to at least 100,000 first-time electric car buyers to boost the interest in alternative motoring. It is expected that the bonus scheme will be deployed between 2012 and 2015.
This is a huge amount of money – half a billion Euros, so, now

According to information provided by mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe, an increasing number of Parisians are thinking of ways to get rid of their cars. It was estimated that 16% of car owners in Paris use their 4-wheeled friend less than once per month. On average a car in Paris spends around 95% its lifetime parked.
Therefore during the last decade the bicycle routes of French capital have been extended threefold to 440 kilometres. Now 3% of total traffic in Paris is generated by bicycles. A self-service bicycle hire company Velib …

The German giant Siemens after pulling out of the mobile phone market (nostalgic sigh, my first five mobiles were all Siemens ) have pulled a new trick out of the hat.
Recharging systems for electric cars will go live soon in countries like Denmark, Germany and USA. Denmark most likely is at the top of the queue because the

Allegedly the French automotive giant wants to purchase a control share in Japanese Mitsubishi Motors.
The most obvious reason for two companies wanting to join their forces is cutting the operational costs (read: more job losses). I am sure this is the case with the upcoming Franco-Japanese alliance, however, there is another hidden player in this game and that is the