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Tesla replays DOE loan nine years early

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For the first seven years since its founding in 2003, Tesla was funded entirely with private funds, led by Elon Musk. This program was signed into law by President Bush in 2008 and then awarded under the Obama administration in the years that followed.

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EPA updates rules to ease commercialization of alternative fuel conversion systems

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EPA evaluated the requirement and determined that it is appropriate to introduce new flexibilities for all clean alternative fuel converters and to expand the compliance options for certain categories of conversions. The revised procedures will vary based on the age of the vehicle or engine being converted. Certification application.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

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Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. Meanwhile the plug-in EV RAV-4s they made in 1997-2003 are still working just fine - the ones they didn’t crush and actually allowed people to buy. She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car.

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EPA Proposes to Streamline Approval Process for Fuel Conversion Systems

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The new options would reduce some economic and procedural impediments to clean alternative fuel conversions while maintaining environmental safeguards to ensure that acceptable emission levels from converted vehicles are sustained. EPA expects the streamlined approach to result in a cost savings for many converters. Intermediate age.

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UC Davis Names Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency

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That endowment complements Chevron’s ongoing support for UC Davis, which includes a $500,000 gift in 2008 to be a lead sponsor of the Energy Efficiency Center and a $25 million biofuels research collaboration begun in 2006 to develop technology to convert nonfood agricultural waste into next-generation transportation fuels.

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Suncor Energy Receives Conditional Regulatory Approval for Oil Sands Tailings Management Plan; Projected 30% Reduction in Volume

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The plan proposed the expansion of a new approach to tailings management called TRO (Tailings Reduction Operations), which involves converting fluid tailings into a solid landscape suitable for reclamation. Suncor has been researching, developing and testing the TRO technology since 2003. Earlier post.).

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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‘Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. There is a variance based on production method, etc.).

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