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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Car dealers will prosper in the city, and the state will be getting sales tax. Electric cars were in the works long before former Vice President Al Gores push for environmental change and before the recent brush with $4-a-gallon gasoline, said Perry. plants would prosper."

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Some of the most talked-about electric vehicles are slated to debut later this year and can travel at least 100 miles on a single charge (even if some of them run on an auxiliary gasoline engine when the battery runs low).

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

And their COO, Patrick Pelata, sounded like he’d been in the post-gasoline car business for years – (preparing batteries and business models alike) with Nissan/Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn. And how about Renault, arguably the biggest car company at play in this arena. Patrick Pelata, Renault COO.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. The Big Dick Cheney Effect. Big Dick did all this while knowing full well the damage burning fossil fuels does.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As part of the solution framework, the Israeli government will provide tax incentives to customers, Renault will supply the electric vehicles, and Project Better Place will construct and operate an Electric Recharge Grid across the entire country. Project Better Place plans to deploy a massive network of battery charging spots. SZ (1) 6753.T

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