The Real-World Horsepower of Electric Cars

Tesla model s on dyno at 428.2 Horsepower!

What do batteries and electric motors add up to in real-world HORSEPOWER? It's all about the conversion of HP to torque -- 600 HP from a gas car usually equals about 400 pounds of torque. In a gas engine the torque and HP meet at 5500 RPMs. The electric motor can make the same torque at 1000 RPMs or less. Watch the video:

"What does 85kw hours equal in raw horsepower? The Tesla Model S on a dyno machine in this video will answer that question, 428.2HP! Imagine the torque! It's probably much higher," said Tom Lloyd, owner of Elite-Exclusive Custom EVS.

Here's his report on the power of electric cars:

A 600 HP combustion (gas-powered) engine usually generates 400 pounds of torque that is easily surpassed by a 300 HP electric motor. 

Speed TV had a car building show called Stacey David. He built an SLC kit-car on the show that demonstrated the power and speed that can be achieved in building and converting muscle cars. The car looked nice and went together well. We have built the Factory Five GTM and made it electric. However, It took over a year to get the parts from F5. 

We have also been working with the Tesla Roadster, which is a Lotus Elise with electric drive. The Lotus has an all aluminum chassis and fiberglass body. We have been able to buy several Tesla roadsters for considerably under retail value. We have a Model S Tesla in the shop that we are doing aluminum repairs to. We have two other aluminum chassis at the shop that we built -- All of these cars  are capable of achieving 428.2 HP because of the 5x greater torque ratio. 

Audi A8 electric sporty sedan 

This Audi A8 sporty sedan with an all-aluminum body was modified to accommodate an electric motor, batteries and a range-extending on-board recharging system.

GTE electric sports racer

The best power and performance is achieved by using two smaller electric motors at 300 HP each because smaller electric motors spin faster. The higher the volts and amps the more power you make. This is what we did seven years ago, when we built the original Sigma GTE racer. An added advantage is to drive the front with one motor and the rear with the other. The most successful race cars are 4-wheel drive.

Here's his report on the range of electric cars:

On average you get 10 miles range for $1000. 200 miles is $20,000 in batteries. We currently have a Sigma GTE sports car for sale, ready to race or ready to be detailed with custom body and paint.

We are constantly designing new body styles and have other designs to work with. There are many options. We can offer the GTE in the mid-40's range and the Audi A8 with all-wheel drive at $70k. 

The Audi A8 travels up to 150 miles as an all-electric and is capable of cross-country driving, utilizing an  on-board recharge/range extending generator based on a V-Twin bike engine connected to the factory gas tank (that gets over 100 miles per gallon while recharging the electric batteries.)

These are the exclusive custom electrics we have to offer at the moment -- and we would be more than capable of building the exotic custom electric of your dreams -- based on a kit-car, one of our original designs or conversion of a gas-powered vehicle." - Tom Lloyd @TCLloyd@gmail.com. 

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E-Cars are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!
Contact Tom Lloyd: TCLloyd@gmail.com

Electric Bus Ride In Downtown Rome

Today we are in Rome, where there are many statues and many electric buses to move people through the narrow streets in downtown. Click image to view photo album.

It's easy to tell that an Electric Bus is approaching because there is no engine noise and no fumes... The simple truth: Gas Stinks (also diesel fuel.)

Of course we visited the famous Trevi Fountain.

And had a slice of real Italian pizza made with Buffalo mozzarella that was served with Arancini, a deep-fried  combination of rice, cheese and tomato.  

We will be in Italy for 60 days on a business-vacation in the country most famous for manufacturing the sexiest sports cars in the world. Our business is based in Orlando Florida: 

e-cars.cc EXCLUSIVE CUSTOM ELECTRIC CARS.

Contact Tom Lloyd: TCLloyd@gmail.com

2013 Orlando Fast Cars Street Show

It was great to see hybrid electric racers at the V2LAB Mystery Meat2 Show!  -- Click image to view album. 

V2lab Mystery Meet 2 - April 14, 2013 - Downtown Orlando, FL

Here are a few shout outs to some of the best in show:

National Speed High Performance Automotive Center: The Nation's First High Performance Automotive Center HQ in North Carolina.

Breit One's Automotive, Inc. - Honda bike and car specialists, owned by ASE Master Tech Billy Breitfeller of Orlando.

Autoworx Custom Paint Collision Center of Orange City.

VMAXX Auto Sport of Tampa.

Vision2 Labs hosted the 2nd annual event that filled several closed blocks near Cinema Plaza and Church Street Station.

Mother and daughter of Tom Lloyd, owner of ELITE-EVS.com

The Future is here and it's ELECTRIC! We have clocked our custom electric Mustang GTE at 145 mph (zero-60 4.6sec)

We Are E-Cars.cc
Orlando, Florida
Tom Lloyd: TCLloyd@gmail.com

2013-Models Central Florida Car Show

THE ANTI-ELECTRIC VEHICLE! "Instead of miles per gallon, this truck uses gallons per mile," said Tom Lloyd, founder of Elite Custom Electric Vehicles based in Orlando, Florida. 

The Central Florida Auto Show, produced by Motor Trend Auto Shows and presented at the Orlando Convention Center, showcased hundreds of cars, trucks and sporty utility-vehicles, giving the public an opportunity to view the new 2013 models without the pressure of sales people.

WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!  "There were a couple of cross-over hybrids and not one fully electric car," said Tom Lloyd. "People don't realize that 90 percent of the time, they drive fewer than 100 daily miles, which means an all-electric vehicle with a back-up range-extending system is what they should be buying. But that is not what the major car companies want to sell because they really do not want you to fall in love with e'cars that you can just unplug and drive." 

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E-Cars are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!
Contact Tom Lloyd: TCLloyd@gmail.com

The Electric Car Wars - Part 2

Multinational corporations in the USA that receive huge fossil fuel subsidies from the federal government and pay almost no taxes, have been waging war for more than two decades against the development of electric cars and other sources of "alternative" and renewable energy.  

In the 2006 Academy award-winning documentary, "Who Killed The Electric Car"  the case is made against the oil company Texaco - Chevron, and GM Motors that purchased the patent rights to the NiMH battery 20 years ago that would have put the USA out in front as the number one producer of electric cars. But instead of producing cars, they have been suing companies like Panasonic to prevent them from producing NiMH batteries.

We created our own problems as a nation when we sanctioned a business deal between a conglomerate of four American oil companies (Texaco, Standard, Esso and Mobile) and the Saudi Arabia government. The "open door" deal was favored by Republican politicians as a way to alleviate gas shortages in the US following WWI that lingered into the 1940's.

It had taken more than five years of oil exploration and drilling to establish the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company that was producing 1,500 barrels of oil per day. 

Then in 1944, the Saudi's insisted on a name change to Arabian American Oil Company (or Aramco.) In 1950, King Abdulaziz threatened to nationalize his country's oil facilities, thus pressuring Aramco to agree to share profits 50/50.^{[Wikipedia.org17]} A similar process had taken place with American oil companies in Venezuela a few years earlier. The Saudi's also moved Aramco headquarters from New York to Dhahran.

That is when the US government started giving the big four American oil companies huge tax breaks -- known as the "golden gimmick" equivalent to the 50% profits given to King Abdulaziz -- effectively removing them from the corporate tax roll.

Then another 25% stake in Aramco was given to the Saudi Arabian government in 1973, the price for allied-US support for Israel during the "Yom Kippur War."

With the increased profits, the Saudi government was able to acquire a 100% stake in the company by November 1988, taking over complete management of the oil fields and renaming the company "Saudi Arabian Oil Company (or Saudi Aramco.)

It officially cut all oil supply to Israel the same year by order of the CEO, and became the world's largest fully owned, privately held company, with an estimated market value that had risen to $781 billion in 2005.

Concerns for monopolization of the world's economy have been raised.

Saudi Arabians have major holdings in big oil, cars and media companies that rake in fossil fuel subsidies in the United States, produce gas-guzzling vehicles and do everything possible to fight-off  the adoption of "renewable" and other "alternative sources" of energy.

"Who Killed The Electric Car," Academy award-winning 2006 documentary spells out the case against Texaco - Chevron, and GM Motors that purchased the patent rights to the NiMH battery 20 years ago that would have put the USA out in front as the number one producer of electric cars. But instead of producing cars, they have been suing companies like Panasonic to prevent them from producing NiMH batteries.

China is now the world's largest car manufacturer -- thanks to global labor outsourcing of US car manufacturing and the Chinese development of lithium ion batteries that are in popular use in inexpensive electric vehicles that are flooding the world market (except in the USA where they are restricted.)

China produces almost half of all Chevy cars sold in the world, and produces cars and "components" for all of the major US car companies. However, tight federal import regulations prohibit the import of most electric cars designed to exceed 35 mph (anything more than a golf cart in other words.) 

Panasonic has successfully managed to be able to produce NiMH batteries Japanese companies but will only offer them for sale in batches of 10,000, which makes it impossible for start-up companies to test the use of the batteries or acquire them for concept and custom electric vehicles.

Way to stand in the way of progress!!!

 "The oil companies said electric cars can't work, but the truth is, they don't want them to work," Elon Musk, CEO founder of Tesla Motors told a crowd eager to see his new Tesla Model S sedan, unveiled Oct. 1, 2011 in Fremont, California.

Electric battery-powered vehicles are capable of zero to 60 mph in under 6 seconds that blows away it's gas combustion-engine powered competitors. They also have a 10-year battery life and require very little maintenance compared to combustion gas-powered engines.... which require frequent oil changes and engine parts replacement. 

So, electric cars are a big time and money saver for motorists but they do not fit nicely into the current car dealership business plan that relies heavily on parts replacement and oil changes, that are also key to getting you back to the store to buy the newest model.

Never the less, passionate custom-conversion builders have been designing and racing electric cars for more than 40 years in California and South Carolina.

 "I have been up against Mustang GTE racers on NASCAR tracks with one of my converted electric Mustangs and walked away from all of the gas powered cars every time. I have clocked top speeds of zero to 60 mph in 4.5 seconds with a top speed over 145 mph," said our top builder.

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E-Cars are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!
Contact Tom Lloyd: TCLloyd@gmail.com

E-Car Club Scores Funding Boost

E-Car Club, the UK's first entirely electric car club, has secured (£215,000) $330,000 worth of funding from angel investors. The additional funding will allow the E-Car Club to expand into eight new locations in London and South-East England during 2013. The club operates in partnership with local low carbon community groups in making e-cars available within the community.

The E-Car Club raised the funds via a leading crowd-funding site, Crowdcube. E-Car Club, the lowest emission car hire fleet in the UK, is currently completing a ten-month pilot project, partially funded by the Technology Strategy Board, to develop Car Club operations in partnership with local low carbon community groups. The funding raised will be used to deploy additional electric vehicles in up to eight new locations in London and South-East England during 2013, providing communities, businesses and local authorities with access to a car when they need one – without the high fixed cost of owning and maintaining a vehicle.

The pilot community in Wolverton, Milton Keynes has over 90 members using the five door Nissan LEAF cars for shopping and business trips, and for trips to visit friends and family.

"This new funding provides us with the capital to extend our operations and demonstrate the role both the Electric Vehicle and the Car Club can play in corporate and public transport strategy," said Christopher Morris, E-Car's development director.

Andrew Wordsworth, Managing Director at Sustainable Ventures and also Chairman of E-Car Club said, “Receiving £100,000 from 63 investors in E-Car Club’s crowdfunding round proved a real stamp of approval when looking for additional investment. The second round is a more traditional investment structure.

Luke Lang, Founder and Director of CrowdCube said, “It is great to see businesses like E-Car Club securing its next round of funding from more traditional routes after raising its seed investment on Crowdcube.  This is good news for E-Car and its Crowdcube investors as the company can further accelerate its growth and deliver greater shareholder value.”

Marc Blumenthal, serial entrepreneur and Angel Investor said, “E-Car’s innovative concept and its enormous growth potential, as well as its dynamic and professional team is what inspired me to invest in the company at an early stage. I strongly believe in E-Car’s future and am excited for what lies ahead.”

E-Car Club exclusively uses plug-in electric vehicles, allowing it to always offer customers the lowest emission fleet. Through focussing on providing sustainable transport solutions, the company has enjoyed strong stakeholder support ranging from Local Authorities to car manufacturers.E-Car Club was established in 2011 and launched full-scale operations in Autumn 2012. The company continues to benefit from  the early-stage expertise and the extensive network of Sustainable Venture Development Partners.

More than 31 million electric vehicles were produced, primarily in China in 2010 to 2012. The USA still has one of the lowest rates of electric-vehicle adoption -- but Elite Custom Electric Cars aims to change that by providing economical entry-level Electric City Cars.

Investment opportunities are also available via B-eco investment crowd-funding.

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Based in Florida, Elite-evs are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!

Join Us On An "Electric City Tour" Across The USA

We are building an electric car capable of cross-country travel for an "Electric City Tour" that will start in Orlando, Florida -- next summer. Here's a 5 minute video tour of some of the most picturesque sights to see across the USA. 

We want to promote "green energy" alternative-travel options by getting on the road to visit electric-car friendly tourist and travel destinations.

About 90% of our vacation will be all-electric green travel -- Using a fully recharged system to explore tourist and travel attractions. Then we will hit the road for another town utilizing a V-Twin engine-powered on-board recharge  and range-extending system (linked to the gas custom car's gas tank) that travels at 100 miles per gallon of gasoline.

In other words, we won't be stopping to fill up our gas tank every 400 miles -- In fact we will start with a fully recharged system every morning and we won't be switching on the re-charge system until almost miles into any full day of travel. 

There are currently 300 recharging stations in the Central Florida - Orlando area, including 30 fast recharge stations and recharge stations at all three major theme parks. There are recharge stations at more than two dozen hotels in Orlando, as well as recharge stations at the Florida Mall and two recharge stations in downtown Orlando.

Want to rent and test-drive an electric car while on vacation? Orlando has teamed up with 30 hotels, and several major car rental companies in a first of it's kind program, sponsored in part by the National Electrification Coalition. 

Rent an electric car and vacation gas-free and pay nothing to recharge your electric rental car -- Details at Drive Electric Orlando.

If you would like to support what we are doing: Become a brand sponsor. To discuss GREEN TRAVEL SPONSORSHIP -- Contact Us.

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Based in Florida, Elite-evs are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!

Three Cities Are "The Most Electric-Car Friendly"

We are planning an "Electric City Tour" from Florida that, hopefully will take us to electric-car friendly cities and towns across the USA. 

PlugShare, the social network devoted to finding and sharing public charging stations, conducted a national census of the number of public charging stations in each major city in the U.S and concluded that Portland, Oregon and Dallas, Texas currently have the largest number of publicly accessible charging stations per 100,000 residents.

PlugShare attributes Dallas' high position on the list due to eVgo, an electric vehicle charging company based in the city.

Similarly, Nashville, Tennessee occupies third place with 8.2 charging stations per 100,000 residents because of a nearby factory, where the  2013 Nissan Leaf will be built. San Francisco Bay occupied fourth place, with 6.6 charging stations per 100,000 residents. Florida, that sees the environmental and economic value of electric tourism is pledged to dot the state with 500 recharge stations in the near future.

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Based in Florida, Elite-evs are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!

Exclusive Electric Customs by ELITE-EVS

We convert gas-guzzling vehicles into energy-efficient (E-Vs) electric vehicles that are environmentally-friendly, fast and fun to drive.

For more details: 
Contact Us. 

EV News: World Conference Takes Aim At Big Oil

Globally, fossil fuels receive 6xs more subsidies than renewable energy. Many of these companies make "excessive" profits and pay almost no taxes thanks to "subsidies," "research & development" and a k-zillion other corporate welfare tax breaks. The "market value" at the gas pump is also driven up by oil industry speculators. 

More than 1 million people who think this is absurd have added their signatures to a petition at  http://350.org/rio to tell world leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro to end fossil fuel subsidies immediately!

Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies topped the Rio +20 UN   World's Top 10 List to be discussed at Dialogue Days at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) at the Riocentro Convention Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16 to 19, 2012. An online public poll ahead of the conference was used to prioritize the dialogue schedule. 

"If we want to avoid the devastating effects of climate change, we need to reduce and limit the use of fossil fuels," was a new and very strong dialogue expressed at the conference. Many participants advocate stronger wording and a clear commitment to press the nations of the world to end subsidies

Nearly $1 trillion is given by governments every year to coal, oil and gas companies. Three years ago, the G20 committed to phase-out these handouts to "dirty fuel" industries, but they haven't taken any action since.

TURN THIS TRILLION GREEN: In preparation for an #EndFossilFuelSubsidies "Twitter Storm" set for all day June 18, volunteers with Avaaz and 350.org unfurled a massive banner on the Copacabana beach, calling on world leaders at the Rio+20 Summit to end the nearly $1 trillion dollars being handed out in fossil fuel subsidies each year.

During the four days of dialogue, non-government and non-UN agency representatives from civil society, including the private sector, scientific community, NGOs and other major groups have been discussing the most promising solutions related to sustainable long-term planning. They are engaged in an open and action-oriented debate on key topics related to sustainable development. Three recommendations emanating from each of the Dialogues will be conveyed directly to the Heads of State and Government present at the Summit.  

Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum: The Business Case for the Green Economy

The Forum on June 17th was a gathering of thoughtful leaders from business, financial institutions and governments to offer insight and vision on the opportunities and challenges of financing the transition to a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty alleviation.

"It's very important that we learn to do much more with fewer natural resources," said George Kell, executive director of the United Nations Global Compact. 

The UN Dialogues initiative was launched through a digital platform (https://www.riodialogues.org/) in order to provide the wider public a democratic space for discussion. The on-line debates on each of the ten themes of the Dialogues, facilitated by researchers from renowned academic institutions around the world, resulted in ten concrete recommendations that can be viewed and voted for in a public website (http://vote.riodialogues.org).

The Rio+20 forums were broadcast live and can be viewed at UN Webcast. 

It's All About the Battery

If electric cars are going to make a real impact, they have to meet a few criteria. The most important have to do with the batteries that make them go because that is where the technology is most vulnerabe. What should these batteries be able to do?

The batteries should be light enough for the average person to pick up without too much difficulty, and they should not take up too much space.

An electric car should be able to go 1,000 miles between charges or with the use of multiple batteries as long as they don’t take up too much space.

The battery should be able to charge quickly, perhaps, while you are eating lunch especially if you can only carry one battery at a time. It goes without saying, but here it is, anyway, there have to be plenty of places available to charge them not only at home but on the road as well.

Florida encourages electric vehicle travel tourism with more than 500 charging stations, including charging stations at Simon Shopping malls so you can enjoy shopping and dinner and hit the road with a fresh charge -- at no cost in many cases.

Is there anything to get charged up about as far as battery technology is concerned? Companies in China have developed batteries that will not need to be replaced for 10 years. And in the United States, under the direction of the federal Department of Energy, their Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST) program is helping to fund companies that are working to advance battery development. So what is on the horizon?

If you have not heard of Envia Systems, you will, soon. They are working on a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that could cut the price of batteries in half.

The answer might be a new approach developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Under the guidance of Professors W. Craig Carter and Yet-Ming Chiang, a semi-solid flow cell is being developed. Using a special liquid in which solid particles are suspended, this mixture is propelled through the system.

The Battery500 Project, teams IBM, the Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They are looking at a lithium air battery that creates a charge when heavy-metal oxides are traded with carbon and exposed to oxygen.

While it is important for car companies to continue to refine the design of electric vehicles, nothing much is going to happen until the batteries get where they need to go. However, it is only a matter of time until electric cars can deliver on their promise because the batteries that drive them are finally getting the attention they deserve. If you are waiting until the prices drop and the cars improve, you may not have that much longer to wait. 

Elite Custom Electric Vehicles offers this sporty custom converted electric Audi A8 sedan that travels 90% of the time as an all-electric vehicle for city commutes and around-town. For longer commutes and vacation travel, a click of the switch launches an on-board recharge range-extending power generator.





Evelyn Bradford is a freelance contributor to KeyInsuranceQuotes.com. She owns an electric car, enjoys the lack of fumes and can’t wait to see the technology improve.

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Based in Florida, Elite-evs are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!

Simon Malls in Chicago Suburbs Join E-V Network

 
The Nationwide Network of Electric Vehicle Recharge Stations is Growing - Across the United States, thousands of electric vehicle recharge stations are going up in public places as well as shopping mall parking lots as more and more consumers make the switch from gasoline to hybrid and electric. More than one million electric vehicles will be on the road by 2015, with estimates as high as 27 to 31 million by 2020, according to automakers.

"An electric vehicle is just right for 90 percent of all drivers, who rarely travel more than 150 miles per day from their homes," said S. Monte Kase, head designer, builder and racer of EV Concepts.

Simon Property Group, the largest retail real estate property company in the United States has installed a dozen recharge stations at malls in Florida to California. The newest recharge stations are going up at nine Simon malls in the Chicago suburbs. 

The stations are self-service and easy to operate, according to Simon Property Group spokesman Les Morris. Charging will be free for an introductory time period, and then a nominal fee will be assessed, he said. The company’s goal is to quell “range anxiety” that electric car owners may feel about traveling to the outlet mall to shop.

A typical charging station costs between $5,000 and $15,000. U.S. Department of Energy grant money is subsidizing the Simon Mall installations, as well as thousands of recharge stations being installed by municipalities across the nation.

Los Angeles-based company 350Green, which builds and operates the stations, has more than 1,100 stations under contract. “It’s coming — the demand is there,” said David Goodridge, vice president of sales for 350Green. “Our role is to act as a corridor for the technology.”

The Electric Drive Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative

“I don’t want to have to import a hybrid car. I want to build a hybrid car here.” – President Obama said Aug. 5th 2009, when he announced the $2.4 billion Electric Drive Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that includes 48 grants administered by the US Department of Energy (DOE).

The biggest individual grant, at $299 million, went to Johnson Controls, a Holland, Mich., firm that has struck a deal with Ford to provide batteries for future vehicles. The second biggest grant, at $249 million, went to startup A123 Systems, a Romulus, Mich., company with links to Chrysler.
It’s significant for A123Systems since the program’s goal of getting technology into large-scale production within 2-3 years and the requirement for awardees to share costs tends to tilt the scales away from younger ventures. A123 has requested as much as $438 million but the $249 million grant could help bring the GE Energy Financial Services’ backed company closer to its long-planned IPO.
The Big Three automakers will also receive the grants. GM is receiving 3 grants totaling $241.4 million, Ford will get 2 grants totaling $92.7 million and Chrysler will get 1 grant of $70 million.

You can view a list at WSJ here or the full original DOE list here.

Related:

350Green & Car Charging Group E-V Stations at Simon Malls

Sources:

Feds Give $2.4B to 48 Auto Battery and Electric Drive Projects

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Based in Florida, Elite-evs are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!

E-V Recharge Stations at Florida & California Malls

Customers Can Charge EVs While Shopping and Dining - Simon Property Group, Inc is betting the future will be "electric" by installing electric vehicle charging stations at the biggest malls across the country. The first charging station went up in March 2011 at Simon's Florida Mall in Orlando, followed by another at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California.

That's good news for Tesla Motors in California and Elite-EVS by EV Concepts of Orlando based in Central Florida and South Carolina.

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Simon's (NYSE:SPG) is an S&P 500 company and the largest real estate company in the United States. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 392 properties comprising 263 million square feet of gross leasable area in North America, Europe and Asia.

Long considered a leader among developers in integrating energy conservation strategies into mall operations, the recharging stations at Simon malls are the first recharge stations to be installed in retail shopping center parking lots. One 'Level 2' charger, which has the capability to "top off" or partially charge a customer's electric vehicle in a 60 to 120 minute time frame, is now operational near the food court entrance at Florida Mall.

A dual unit, with two 'Level 2' chargers, was installed in the parking deck between Macy's and Bloomingdale's at Stanford Shopping Center.

These EV charging stations will be self-service and easy to operate. Shoppers will be able to just "pull up and plug in" and leave their vehicles at the charging station while they are enjoying time at the mall. Charging will be free during an introductory time period and then a nominal fee will be assessed.

Production numbers from EV automakers project approximately a million EVs on U.S. roads by 2015, and possibly 27 million (or 10 percent of all vehicles in the U.S.) by 2020.

"We believe that a well-developed EV charging infrastructure is going to be key to the success of EVs," said George Caraghiaur, Simon Property Group's senior vice president of energy and procurement. "Meeting the needs of the first-to-market drivers of electric vehicles in the communities we serve is yet another example of our commitment to sustainability."

Simon is working with two companies during this initial rollout. Car Charging, Inc. (OTCBB: CCGI), installed the unit at Florida Mall and 350Green will install the charging units at Stanford Shopping Center. Both companies are dedicated to expanding the EV charging station infrastructure nationally.
Michael D. Farkas, CEO of Car Charging Group, Inc., said "Our collaboration with Simon Property Group is a prime example of our national growth strategy. By partnering with premier national property management companies for installations, we are able to rapidly deploy a nationwide roll out of a robust network of convenient charging stations. We are happy to have brought this amenity to customers at Florida Mall and look forward to bringing it to additional Simon Property Group locations across the nation."

"We are thrilled to be working with Simon on this project to place the first in what will be a larger network of our charging stations in the Bay Area," said Mariana Gerzanych, 350Green's founder and CEO. "The goal is to make EV charging convenient and accessible to anyone who owns an EV - regardless of whether or not they have a charging station at their home or office."

About Car Charging Group, Inc.
Car Charging Group, Inc. is an owner and provider of EV charging stations with the mission to build-out a nationwide infrastructure, enabling EV and PHEV owners to charge their Electric Cars anytime, anywhere. As part of its strategy, the Company owns, provides, installs and maintains electric car charging stations and works with its landowner partners to identify appropriate locations for its charging stations. The Company provides convenient, safe and affordable charging stations away from home in customer-friendly public locations, including municipalities, shopping malls, parking garages, multi-family residential and commercial properties. Car Charging Group, Inc. is based in Miami, Florida. The Company's website can be viewed at www.CarCharging.com.

About 350Green
350Green is a project developer that designs, builds and operates scalable networks of plug-in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the US. The company distributes its stations by partnering with retail hosts at select, high-traffic shopping centers and other places near where EV drivers live and work, to create an expansive and convenient network of EV charging locations. Current projects totaling several hundred chargers are underway in Chicago, the state of Pennsylvania, and the San Francisco Bay area. More information on 350Green and its projects can be found at its website: http://www.350green.com

SOURCE: Simon Property Group, Inc.

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Based in Florida, Elite-evs are faster than blue lightning but they can also be tamed to top speeds under 50 mph for resort community travel needs.

Ideal for town and retirement community travel
 see our Electric City Car Collection at e-cars.cc.

The future is here and it's Electric!