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GM adds 3 acres of solar arrays in Michigan

Green Car Congress

The company’s processing center in Swartz Creek and engine plant in Flint will feature 150 kW ground-mount solar arrays expected to generate a combined 400,000 kWh of renewable energy per year to the facilities’ grids. The new installations bring GM closer to reaching its goal to increase renewable energy use globally to 125 MW by 2020.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

On 11 August, GM invited approximately 75 journalists and auto analysts to spend a day learning about the new GM. The day was split between a morning session at the GM tech center in Warren and an afternoon session at the GM proving grounds in Milford, MI. GM’s identify in the US starts with its four core brands.

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Is GM's Plug-in Hybrid for Real? What Say Big Enviro?

Plugs and Cars

Lots of ink on GM's plug-in hybrid announcement. With headlines like "GM Promises Plug-in Hybrid," Waggoner's statement in LA moves plug-in cars back into the public discussion of petroleum alternatives. Sources: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901343.html

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MIT Year End Energy Review touts PHEVs

Plugs and Cars

The MIT Technology Review reports plug-in hybrids a big 2006 energy story: "The plug-in hybrid-vehicle era begins. See "GM's Plug-In Hybrid.") See "How Plug-In Hybrids Will Save the Grid." ) Battery costs still need to drop before such cars will approach the price of conventional hybrids or gas-only vehicles.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999. “And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley. It’s a very strong spirit.”

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

If everyone could hear Ed talk about the smart grid and how plug-in cars make it possible to inventory electricity then we’d already be building that grid today. From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. That “V2G&# over the wheel stands for Vehicle to Grid.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol.

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