Trans-Atlantic alliance aims to change the face of electric car charging

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A coalition of businesses says universal technology standards are needed to drive the mass take-up of electric cars

What connects this year's failures of US charging network operator ECOtality and Shai Agassi's battery-swapping paradigm-wrecker Better Place? Well, according to Onoph Caron and Brett Hauser, the key...

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