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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Play (RED) board rocks The group harnesses the power of Fortune 500 brand names to fight disease in Africa. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76 20.84% Apr 17 3:57pm ET † Index Last % Change Dow Jones 8,131.33 0.07% Nasdaq 1,673.07 0.16% S&P 500 869.60 25.00% Motorola Inc 5.62

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). "Their cars are way behind Toyota, for sure," Sokol admits.

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