Weekly EV News Round-up

The Amazing Backstory Behind Who Killed the Electric Car? - An Interview with Executive Producer Richard Titus - Part 2

Best U.S. Cities For Electric Cars, Says GE, Are The Ones Where Everyone Already Drives

 The Makers of Record-Breaking Electric Motorcycles Will Become Suppliers of EV Technologies

Get Around Gridlock And Over Broken Infrastructure With The Hanebrick Electric Bike

Best Range Extender EV award for Proton Exora Hybrid at RAC Future Car Challenge, UK

Is Honda About to Pull a Nissan and Go Electric?

Panasonic Buys a 2% Stake in Tesla Motors for $30M

BMW to Invest $560 Million Dollars to Produce an Electric Car

Mitsubishi Plans Roll-Out of Larger i-MiEV Electric Car for Americas

Lightning's electric GT entering late prototype phase; production set for 2012

VW China Seeking 10,000 Electric Car Sales From 2014-18

Tesla cofounder raises $5 million for Wrightspeed

Fisker Automotive hoping to raise an additional $75-$150 million

Coda CEO Kevin Czinger resigns

Trailer Offered As EV Range Anxiety Cure

Plans Laid for Second LG Chem Battery Plant in Holland, Michigan

Underwriters Laboratory releases white paper on li-ion battery safety 

Japanese Team Develop New, Safer Lithium-ion Battery for Electric Vehicles

And in wider-ranging alt energy news:

America: Banana Republic?

 

Karl Rove Tells Oil Producers “Climate is Dead"

BP's Oil Spill Costs Rise to $40 Billion

New Mexico Quietly Adopts Country’s Most Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Rules

Proposition 23: Why the Rest of the U.S. Should Care About California

House Global Warming Committee Faces Uncertain Future Under Republicans

GOP Itching for a Czar-Hunt, High-Speed Rail Threatened and EPA Policy Chief Resigns

Republican win does not kill clean energy plans, industry says

Transparent Conductive Material Could Lead to Power-Generating Windows