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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008).

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Nissan reports significant net loss

Green Cars News

Nissan has followed Honda and several other Japanese carmakers by announcing significant losses in its financial results for the fiscal year ending in 2008. Tags: Cars Latest news Nissan Nissan financial results Nissan losses Nissan profit. Its net revenues of $83.78billion were accompanied by a net loss of $2.32billion.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. of improvement every two years drives innovation, adoption — and most importantly in the quest for grid parity — cost.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Only Old World savants here have even heard of these brands, which crank out millions and millions of cars per year. The 2008 $7.5k France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. But P-C, just as big an automaker, was a complete laggard.

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