Azure Dynamics Reduces Workforce by a Quarter
January 18, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Curt Huston, Azure Dynamics chief operating officer.
Azure Dynamics Corporation has announced a 25% cut in its current workforce along with cuts in all discretionary expenses and a focus on actions to offset recent component cost increases. Azure is a developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial vehicles.
The Company also plans to focus on existing products and is actively working with its customers on potential new programs that involve sharing development costs. Read more
Germany Aiming for 1M EVs and PHEVs by 2020
November 29, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
The German government wants a million electric and hybrid vehicles on their roads within the next ten years, with the stated goal of putting one million electric (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) vehicles onto Germany’s roads by 2020. Cue gratuitous picture of the Audi rZero EV concept. Germany currently has about 46.1 million vehicles, according to figures published by the European Automobile Manufacturers’s Association (ACEA), with a total vehicle fleet of around 49.7 million as of 2006.
The plan was announced during a German national strategy conference on electric mobility held in Berlin earlier this week, and was drafted jointly by the departments of Economics, Transport, Environment, and Education & Research. It will be finalized and put into legislation early next year. Read more
Renault-Nissan Alliance and Portugal Sign EV Agreement for 2010
It’s official, Nissan-Renault Alliance are ruling right now, hot of the heels of announcements of direct zero-emission mobility partnerships with Kanagawa Prefecture and Yokohama City in Japan, the States of Tennessee and Oregon, Monaco, Sonoma County in California, and the French utility giant EDF. Now the Government of Portugal and the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced a comprehensive partnership to deliver zero emission mobility to Portugal from 2010. The plan will utilize electric vehicles supplied by the Alliance, and will leverage an extensive charging network that will be built across Portugal over the next three years. Somebody at VW, BMW and everyone else better wake up and smell the solder, or they are going to be playing catch up for years to come.
The plan calls for 1,300 vehicle charging locations to be operational by the end of 2011, with 320 of those locations already in place in 2010. Read more
