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Plug In 2008

Plug In Partners

T he Plug in 2008 National PHEV Conference in San Jose by most accounts was a big success. I n another announcement at the convention, Google announced two more recipients of their " Recharge It " largesse. San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison Co. and Southern Company. Aptera, of Carlsbad, Calif.,

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Tesla Prepping IPO

Revenge of the Electric Car

The company’s chairman Elon Musk said early last year that an IPO was a possibility in either late 2008 or 2009.&#. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles. Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! by RSS or sign up by email. is a Green Options Media Production.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Lyft Lyft offers rides on two wheels or four and tells you transit options as well If there was any question about the changing landscape, General Motors’ $500 million investment in the ride sharing company Lyft. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures. Hertz has 8,500 locations in 150 countries.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Similarly, GE sold off GE Capital for $26 billion after the 2008 finance and banking collapse, which is a far cry from a decade earlier, when it was worth ten times that. And we knew from prior experience that just being generic like that wasn't going to work because your mother and my mother could show up and say, I want cloud computing.

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