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Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in optical and imaging technology start-up Spectralics

Green Car Congress

Coming from a background in aerospace technology development, Israel-based Spectralics creates state-of-the-art imaging and optical infrastructure spanning materials, hardware and software, enabling a wide variety of advanced optical capabilities. The investment gives Volvo Cars access to promising technology at an early stage of development.

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EV battery swap!

Electric Auto Association

For decades, the EV industry has struggled to create a viable model for quick and easy battery charging. In 2007, Better Place , an Israeli startup founded by former top SAP executive Shai Agassi, partnered with Renault to launch an electric sedan with a network of robotic battery swapping service stations spread across Israel and Denmark.

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Seeking Alpha Home The Macro View Stocks & Sectors Global Markets ETFs Investing Ideas Breaking News Transcripts Register | Login Email: Password: Forgot Your Password? Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Seeking Alpha Home The Macro View Stocks & Sectors Global Markets ETFs Investing Ideas Breaking News Transcripts Register | Login Email: Password: Forgot Your Password? market b y the end of 2009. Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. before 2010.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

V2G helps solve the major problem that demand for electricity is high during the day when everything from industrial plants to air conditioning is running full blast and then excess electricity is wasted at night. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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The French are coming. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The eyes of the green car world, so regularly focused on Asia, Germany and the US, have finally taken more than a passing glance at one of the most historic auto industries in the world – that of France. The car will also be marketed under the Citroen brand as the C-ZERO. The green car race: the French are coming.

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Bailouts and Beemers

Plugs and Cars

A generation of deregulation has culminated with free-market ideologues and corporate chieftains begging for salvation from the federal government once-despised as mettlesome. None can deny the importance of the auto industry to the American economy, but no one was in the mood to pay obeisance to the once-powerful supplicants.