Electric car company Tanfield short circuits on fundraising news

Report: Over 3 million electric vehicles to be sold by 2015
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen , Thursday 2 September 2010 at 09:48:00 Pike Research releases bullish projections for global electric vehicle demand By 2015 the auto industry will have put 3.2m electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the world’s roads, according to research released this week. The study from analyst firm Pike Research, entitled Plug-in electric vehicles , predicts a 106 per cent …

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Joel Brokaw: Monkeys of India: Look but Please Don’t Touch
The monkey who was ransacking my room was making his exit, carrying something in his hand. When I climbed back through the same window, I was expecting the worst.

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Is Toronto approaching Grush hour?
A coffee shop seems like as good a place as any to meet Bern Grush — that is until you actually meet Grush. All trip information stays in the vehicle to protect privacy, except when the customer asks to have the information downloaded from the in-car device onto a private website or onto a smartphone application, so it can be viewed in the same way your cellphone calls are itemized.

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Getting around not going to get any easier
September, the promise of fall to come, and with the turning of the leaves and the shortening of the days comes the end of summer vacations and a return to the dreary business of commuting.

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Electric car company Tanfield short circuits on fundraising news
Shares in Tanfield have plunged by more than a third as the electric vehicle and access platform business said it needed to raise more cash. It plans an equity fundraising at a substantial discount to the current market price (or rather the market price before it made the announcement) which would be partially underwritten by some of its directors. The problem is that its net cash had fallen to …

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