Going-Electric

Plan Iris 2 pour la mobilité à Bruxelles : où est le véhicule électrique ?

Going-Electric — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:21:20 +0000

Le gouvernement de la Région Bruxelloise est tombé d’accord sur le plan Iris 2. Ce plan est censé améliorer la mobilité à Bruxelles et son impact environnemental. Cependant, il affiche pour objectif premier de réduire le trafic automobile de 20% d’ici 2018 en tablant sur un développement des transports en commun, du vélo et de la marche.

Going-Electric, Association pour les Véhicules Électriques en Europe, déplore que ce plan ignore totalement les véhicules électriques, lesquels sont de loin le moyen le plus efficace de réduire la pollution et les émissions de CO2 liées à la mobilité, ainsi que de diminuer les dépenses de santé et de nettoyage des bâtiments.

Lire le communiqué sur le site de Going-Electric.

Electric vehicles: The US needs to wake up… and Europe even more !

Going-Electric — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:34:24 +0000

Their Moon Shot and Ours

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

China is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say “moon shots” I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is in bioscience, where the Beijing Genomics Institute this year ordered 128 DNA sequencers — from America — giving China the largest number in the world in one institute to launch its own stem cell/genetic engineering industry; and, finally, Beijing just announced that it was providing $15 billion in seed money for the country’s leading auto and battery companies to create an electric car industry, starting in 20 pilot cities. In essence, China Inc. just named its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move China off oil and into the next industrial growth engine: electric cars. [...]

Read the full article on New York Times website

Going-Electric guest speaker of Comment:Visions on Euronews

Going-Electric — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:45:16 +0000

Going-Electric is the guest speaker for the April 2010 Comment:Visions broadcast on Euronews, answering the question “If the transition to electric vehicles is so important, then why isn’t it happening faster?” in a six minutes interview.

Gros coup de pouce pour les voitures vertes en Chine

Going-Electric — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:42:10 +0000

La Chine espère devenir LE PREMIER MARCHÉ DU MONDE et veut voir ses constructeurs y régner en maîtres.

LA CHINE A DÉCIDÉ de subventionner son industrie de véhicules propres et annoncé la semaine dernière pour chaque voiture vendue une subvention conséquente pour le constructeur ainsi qu’une économie pour l’acheteur.

Lire l’article de La Tribune

Going-Electric et l’AVEM se rapprochent

Going-Electric — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:35:53 +0000

Dans le cadre d’une adhésion croisée, Going-Electric et l’AVEM se rapprochent et permettent aux visiteurs de leurs sites Internet respectifs de s’informer davantage sur les véhicules électriques.

Fondée en 1997, l’association pour l’Avenir du Véhicule Électrique Méditerranéen (AVEM) a pour but de promouvoir toutes les actions qui concourent au développement ou à l’utilisation du véhicule électrique.

Plus d’infos sur www.avem.fr

Consultation on Europe’s Competitiveness

Going-Electric — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:26:47 +0000

Going-Electric and AVERE strongly believe that in the medium future, the car market will become fully electric. Preparing for this future requires heavy investments from car manufacturers and public authorities. Therefore, all available resources should be exclusively focussed on developing electric car technologies and markets in order to ensure the future competitiveness of the European automotive industry. [...]

Contribution to the EESC hearing

Going-Electric — Thu, 06 May 2010 08:46:17 +0000

On 9 February 2010, the upcoming Belgian EU Presidency decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) for an exploratory opinion on the topic “Towards a widespread use of electric vehicles“. The Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society organized on 12 April 2010 a hearing in view of completing the Committee’s work on the subject, in which Going-Electric was invited to present its views.

Going-Electric emphasises that the focus should be put on the right question, which is: “In which technologies should Europe and the car industry invest?”

Considering that the technology of the future is clearly electric vehicles and that this future could happen very soon if public authorities provide the right incentives, Europe and its car industry should massively invest in them. Given that resources are limited, they should stop investing in other technologies. This is essential to maintain the competitiveness of the EU car industry [...]

Clean vehicles: the European strategy lacks vision

Going-Electric — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:36:09 +0000

The European Commission issued yesterday a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on a European strategy on clean and energy efficient vehicles.

While Going-Electric praises the Commission for being less technologically neutral and recognizing electric technologies as clean options, we deeply regret that it does not focus all available financial resources on Electric Vehicles. Their technologies are by far the cleanest, well mature enough for large market penetration. But they require heavy investments and temporary public incentives to spread on the roads.

Going-Electric is convinced that focusing all resources on electric technologies is essential to ensure the future competiveness of the European vehicle industry, against some Asian and American companies that are already doing so.[...]

The complete press release on www.going-electric.org

3 questions à la FIGIEFA

Going-Electric — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:40:18 +0000

En septembre, Going-Electric a rencontré Michel Vilatte, le nouveau président de la FIGIEFA (Fédération Internationale des Grossistes Importateurs et Exportateurs de Fournitures Automobiles). Cette fédération internationale localisée à Bruxelles regroupe 28 organisations professionnelles nationales de distributeurs grossistes automobiles. L’interview était bien-sûr centrée autour du véhicule électrique et de son impact sur les métiers de la FIGIEFA.

L’interview de Michel Vilatte

Le site web de la FIGIEFA

US DoE $465 Million loan to Tesla Motors

Going-Electric — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:01:33 +0000

The Department of Energy has closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. for construction of a manufacturing facility in southern California on the Model S electric sedan and a power-train manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. The Palo Alto facility will assemble electric vehicle battery packs, electric motors, and related electric vehicle control equipment, both for Tesla’s own electric vehicles and for sale to other automobile manufacturers.

The press release from the US Department of Energy