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Environmentalists fight for green domain

Green Cars News

Former US vice president Al Gore backed a by Californian group Dot Eco to operate the domain. “We’re two different applicants with two different business ideas,&# Minor Childers, co-founder of Dot Eco, told BBC News. According to the BBC , rival consortiums are preparing bids to control the.eco domain. web address.

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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Job creation and more car sales would be a boon for the economy, said Gordon. Car dealers will prosper in the city, and the state will be getting sales tax. Mark Perry with Nissan said the idea of people tooling down the interstate in an electric vehicle is no longer a pipe dream. plants would prosper."

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

But it’s an idea I’m a bit obsessed with—cuz let’s face it, it’s wonderful and it’s the future as well as the now—and I recently rounded up other early adopters who have been cruising nearly carbon-free for a long, long time. No asthma, no cancer, no NOx, no SOx. Well, almost none.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

For all the fanfare, sales of electric cars are currently negligible (outside of golf courses, that is). Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Some of the first plug-in electric passenger vehicles are slated to roll onto U.S. streets later this year.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Pre-paid 600 kilometer cards are one approach that is suggested. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants.

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