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ECOtality to Provide Blink EV Charging Stations at Select US Best Buy Stores

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Charging stations at these stores, within pilot markets of The EV Project, will be installed by March 2011. Blink Network chargers are fully interactive with color touch screens, and connect to a web portal that provides users with charge status, statistics, history, and billing information in addition to ease of payment options.

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Ford Starts EV Test Drives

Revenge of the Electric Car

The Dearborn-based company has a target of rolling out an electric-powered version of the Transit Connect commercial van next year, followed by an electric Focus in 2011. To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Reiter in Berlin at creiter2@bloomberg.net.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

Nine United States regions will receive 4,600 free chargers for public and private use through the ChargePoint America program, funded in part by $15 million in stimulus funds administered by the Energy Department. More than 1,000 public stations will be installed by December, Coulomb said, with the remainder in place by September 2011.

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Research Suggests Renewables Could Generate 40% of Global Power by 2050

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In Europe, Britain’s industry has called on the British government to shell out £625 million (€675 million, US$872 million) for renewables support, and the latest data show that EU Member States France and Germany have committed large sums of green stimulus money, especially for renewables.

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Germany Launches H2 Mobility Initiative to Expand Infrastructure for Refueling Hydrogen Vehicles

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In Phase One partners intend to leverage plans to install new hydrogen fuelling stations by 2011. This will take place within the framework of the German economic stimulus package (Konjunkturpaket II) and other national and state programs to jointly address standardization and cost reduction issues.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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Rulemaking will determine the extent to which this new regime will promote plug-in cars beyond the initial tens of thousands that seem slated to appear from the majors beginning with MY 2011. million FedEx will get to replace grid-connected zero emission battery forklifts with fuel cell forklifts. Such as the $1.1

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

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The surgery appeared to be successful, but as Clark recalled in a 2011 oral history with the Australian Academy of Science, he still slept fitfully that night, worried about his patient. The engineers found and fixed a loose connection in the speech processor that fitted over the implant. The third time was the charm.

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