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The Greenius Misplaces His Mojo… Momentarily

Creative Greenius

The entire 2nd half of 2010 found the Greenius in a Mystery Spot where the rules of nature no longer applied. I’ll be the first to admit it, I lost my mojo as 2010 wore on and it wasn’t pretty. The part where the inmates are not just running the asylum, they’re dismantling it. Wow, March First already.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Many things in your life haven’t changed since 2010 but one thing certainly has: You won’t need to buy gas in order to drive. Plug-in hybrids run on an electrical charge for about 40 miles before switching to gas power.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees. The rapid and largely unforeseen shift in global governmental policies since 2010 in strongly promoting EVs and renewable energy have left the industries involved short on the technical and managerial skills needed to make the transition.

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The Greenius Solution To All California’s Problems: AB 920 + AB 811

Creative Greenius

AB 920 + AB 811 = Solar Powered Electric Cars & PV Powered Charging Stations. But we’re going to need to smack some political hacks upside the head first. That money is our state’s for the taking, but they’re not going to just hand it to us – we’ve got to grab it with both hands.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

Green Car Congress

awards are subject to FY 2010 to FY 2013 appropriations. Understand the transport of charge carriers in synthetic disordered systems, which hold promise as new materials for conversion of solar energy to electricity and electrical energy storage. Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency Through Molecule- Scale Control. $16.

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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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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal.

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