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It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Aussie CO2 standard tough on Toyota, SUVs and utes

EV Central

Known as ‘Option B’, it is significantly tougher than the auto industry itself proposed via its representative body, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), has higher fines for breaching emissions limits and rejects aids known as ‘Super Credits’. litres per 100km of unleaded – and drop 12.2

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A Conversation

Revenge of the Electric Car

Below is an interview with Director Chris Paine and Journalist Robert Steadman with UK-based Blue and Green Tomorrow : ROB: Was it difficult to gain behind the scenes access to the auto industry after the first film? We knew we were vulnerable to car industry PR efforts and they knew they couldn't control what we did editorially.

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The Staggering Scale of the EV Transition

Cars That Think

For IEEE Spectrum , he’s dug into software reliability and maintenance , the so-called STEM crisis , and the automation paradox , examining those complex topics through the eyes of a seasoned risk analyst who has consulted for governments and corporations for five decades.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. General Motors Corporation. General Motors Corporation. KEMET Corporation. Brownstown, MI. Technology.

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Rinspeed To Introduce the “iChange” Concept EV at Geneva

Green Car Congress

Siemens’ Corporate Technology Department (CT), the company’s central research unit, provided an integrated system—comprising the motor/generator, power electronics and a battery-connected interface—for the “iChange”. The heater’s efficiency—the direct energy conversion from electric energy into thermal energy—is 99%.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable."

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying? " Best of the Blogroll Maria Energia Piceance Basin: Learning How to Drill for Natural Gas Clean Break U.S.

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