(Reuters) – Europe’s carmakers moved a step closer creating an infrastructure for electric cars after agreeing on plug and socket standards for slow or overnight charging of the battery-driven vehicles due to hit roads from next year.

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Add electric vehicle smart charging to the long list of products that German energy and engineering giant Siemens wants to tackle for the smart grid.

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Eva Håkansson dreams of building a 400-mph streamliner motorcycle with a twist — it’ll be electric. Who’s to say she can’t do it? She’s already built her own electric street bike, her father is a mechanical genius and her husband is the guy behind Killacycle, the quickest EV on the planet.

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