Electric Car Blowing In To Isles
Excited by potential savings, Hawaii drivers pile on a waiting list for the Nissan Leaf.

Hawaii motorists are getting charged up over the impending arrival of the Nissan Leaf, the first electric vehicle to be mass-marketed in Hawaii.

Nissan dealers say about 1,000 people in Hawaii have expressed an interest in buying the car. About a quarter of those put down a $99 refundable deposit. Nationally, there are about 14,000 people on the waiting list, according to Nissan.


Nissan LEAF Moving Closer to Launch
Leaf Coveters Lean Toward Leasing

Nissan North America Inc. expects the majority of its U.S.-market Leaf electric vehicles will be leased rather than bought, according to anecdotes from those placing reservations for the car.

“We know there’s a lot of interest in lease because consumers see the value receiving the tax credit up front,” NNA spokeswoman Katherine Zachary tells Ward’s. “But enough are expected to buy that we want to be able to offer both.”


EV Charging Basics
When Is A Charging Station Not A Charger? Not all charging stations are created equal, neither are electric cars.

With the help of governments around the world, literally tens of thousands of electric car charging stations are slated to be installed in public locations from New Castle to New York. The U.S. Energy Department estimates that by December of 2013 some 20,000 residential, commercial and public charging stations will be in operation in the United States. Some 1,300 charging stations will be installed in North East England, with another 25,000 more in and around London, itself, by 2015.


Automotive News: So Far, Garage Is Hub Of EV Charging Action
A small but serviceable infrastructure for charging the batteries in electric vehicles is springing up in the United States, but it's largely in people's own garages.

Outside the home, more charging stations are being built, but locations are still widely scattered. In the long run, experts say, the basic charging technology being used to launch tiny volumes of EVs today probably will predominate in the near future.



LA Times: AeroVironment To Install Up To 100 Electric-Car Charging Stations In South Carolina
Monrovia's AeroVironment to install up to 100 electric-car charging stations in South Carolina

The stations in seven cities will be funded largely by state grants. They're expected to be running by Dec. 1 and ready for the rollout of the electric Ford Focus, the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt.
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times


WSJ: Hatching New Ideas
Five important technological advances that have the potential to transform the transport industry

Crystal ball gazing is always a tricky business, not least in the transport industry where so many competing agendas – politics, infrastructure, fuel security, technology and consumer demand – are at play. Each of the following technologies has the potential to address at least a couple of those concerns and maybe transform the way people and goods move around the world.


Edmunds.com/Green Car Advisor: California-Based EV-Charging Station Maker AeroVironment
California-Based EV-Charging Station Maker AeroVironment Is Going to Carolina

By Danny King, Contributor

South Carolina may not have been included in Coulomb Technologies' plans announced earlier this week to deploy 4,600 electric-vehicle charging stations across the U.S. over the next 18 months, but fear not, Palmetto State residents, you are covered.

AeroVironment Inc., the California-based company that earlier this year reached agreements with automakers Nissan and Think to deploy electric-vehicle charging stations, will work with the South Carolina state government and utilities at developing a network of EV-charging stations across the state.