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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

Cars That Think

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. In 2018 he was in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation ’s Leaders Africa program.

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U.S. Battery Makers Power Up

Revenge of the Electric Car

LA Times, December 20, 2008. December 20, 2008 U.S. battery manufacturers are taking steps to raise the industry’s profile, a move that backers hope will speed commercialization of high-tech, American-made car batteries. “We Greenberger said he had been working to inform aides to President- elect Barack Obama as well.

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio Personalize your own news page Receive and manage newsletters Log In Log In User Name Password Log in Remember me Forgot your password? Home World U.S. is teaming with Segway Inc., Thank you !

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Do the simple math, Obama (ho,ho) and learn just how stupid thou really art.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in. — AH2 14. . &# — Siobhan Holmes New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain NEW SECTION Visit the New Energy & Environment Section Markets Get Quotes My Portfolios » TIPS & SUGGESTIONS Talk to Green Inc. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., None of the new electric cars are planning to use old-tech lead acid batteries. Current batteries in new Toyota hybridsare ~$3000 if they need to be replaced. Portland is already an EV center and has been for 15 yrs.

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