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Greenius Weekend Update

Creative Greenius

Sure, we’re as doomed as doomed can be, but why worry when there’s still time to pour a big tall one and party the weekend away? Not only is the South Bay’s greenest city getting the EVs for use by city officials, Mini USA is also providing an electric charging station for the cars. Solar Homes Tour A Big Hit.

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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

Cars That Think

At heart, Faraday was an experimentalist, so in order to write a thorough account, he re-created Ørsted's experiments and tried to follow Ampère's reasoning. Cobb's "Michael Faraday's 'Historical Sketch of Electro-Magnetism' and the Theory-Dependence of Experimentation," in the December 2009 issue of Philosophy of Science.).

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

November 16, 2009: 06:01 PM ET. However, “we’re talking about heavy investment&# in cars, batteries and supporting technology, said Nissan Motor Co. Since batteries that power electric vehicles might last longer than the car itself, they say financing will have to be adjusted to reflect that. By Judith Burns.

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Meeting the Founder of PMV Electric - India's Electric Micro Car

Plug In India

He did his engineering in 2009 from Mumbai, then went on to do his MBA from SCMHRD in 2011. Consumer feedback about trikes was not good - and thanks to Bajaj’s lobbying for the Qute, the government did give in - and re-created a quadricycle category. A 7 kW charging option is being explored.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The current status of my case with Torrance is, the day the article came out (on April 28, 2009) I got a call from the Planning Dept. You’ve got to show you’re going to show that you’re going to build something that’s going to look good – not from the aesthetic point of view, from the building point of view.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. Intelligent Charging Infrastructure for New Electr. Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re.

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