Gulf Oil International to start opening gas stations in Japan after reaching an agreement with a newly formed local business. Hisashi Kunie, owner of Gulf Racing Japan, has established a new company for this venture which will trade as Gulf Japan. The new venture aims at converting 10% of Japan’s non-branded independent service stations to…
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Toyota Could Get The Last Laugh With Battery-Less, Wind-Powered EV Fleet
The Intertubes have been buzzing with news that Toyota is spearheading a public-private partnership that will deploy wind energy to generate hydrogen for whole fleets of zero emission electric vehicles. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the EV fleets in question are not exactly Tesla-level exciting. They’re forklifts, to be precise. Oh…
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Tesla Motors to invest in stations in Japan, report says
Tesla Motors, a US-based maker of upscale electric vehicles, is planning to invest in solar backed charging stations in Japan, according to a report published May 2 by The Motley Fool publication. According to The Motley Fool,back in September, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had said during an event in Japan that the auto maker considered…
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