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Where's is Westborough's Closest Electric Car Charging Station?

NSTAR and crowd-sourced websites offer tips and locations for charging electric cars.

Drivers who are considering a switch to electric vehicles or current vehicle owners looking for a place nearby to charge their rides have a couple of places to find their outlet. In Westborough, the closest charging stations are Glick Nissan, at 273 Turnpike Road, and at the Westboro Mill Office Park, at 69 Milk St. Carstations allows users to upload new car charging locations to a Google map and (when applicable) provides details on the station. According to the site's About section, "this website is designed to encourage participation and welcomes user interaction in the form of comments, updates and user generated content." There are also more official sites providing electric car charging information. This week, NSTAR launched a new …

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Westborough Battery Firm is 'Philosophically Driven'

Boston-Power is gearing up to supply electric batteries to China's fifth-largest automaker

Westborough business owner Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud calls herself "pretty philosophically driven." Soon, vehicles manufactured by China's fifth-largest automaker will be powered by electric batteries generated by Lampe-Onnerud's vision. On Aug. 8, Boston-Power Inc. announced a multi-year deal to provide batteries to the Beijing Electric Vehicle Company, part of the Beijing Automotive Industry Company. "Reflecting a long-standing working relationship between the two companies, it is projected that Boston-Power’s battery systems will be used in hundreds of electric vehicles (EVs) starting in 2012 and thousands of EVs by 2014," the press release says. Lampe-Onnerud, of Framingham, says the deal is one reflection of her interest in being "…

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Westborough Employer Considering Expansion to China

The company makes lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.