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Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power announces $125M in new financing; focus on and support from China

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Additionally, through its stimulus programs and local industrial policies, the Chinese government is providing a range of grants, low-interest loans and related financial and tax incentives. Due to the strategy to focus predominantly on China in both the immediate and longer term, the company is reallocating its global resources.

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National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries Opts for Kentucky Site for Li-ion Plant

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NAATBatt is a not-for-profit industry consortium of more than 50 corporations, associations and research institutions dedicated to making the United States a world leader in the manufacture of advanced lithium-ion or Li-Ion battery cells for transportation applications.

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Chipping away at the ICE

Electric Auto Association

My sojourn from grease monkey to EV advocate By TERESA PORTER; PRESIDENT, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. For example, when a historic downtown area is undergoing a revitalization, I make sure it’s widely known that EV charging stations bring more tourism to town and provide economic stimulus. Who would have thought?

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Grant Thornton LLP Warns of Potential Collapse of Automotive Supply Chain

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Suppliers struggled to make money when industry volumes were almost double what they are today, and the consolidation that has occurred has been happening mostly among smaller companies at the lower tiers. Meanwhile, adding further downside pressure is that banks in many cases are working to reduce their exposure to the auto industry.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

But an increasingly important energy resource is little more than a digital electric meter. Automakers unveiled more than a dozen production-ready, plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles at the Detroit auto show earlier this month, many of which will be on dealership lots between 2010 and 2012.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. In the past industry ultimately called the shots. It hasn’t led to an immediate abandonment by the automakers of this long over-subsidized initiative, but it will help put a stopper in the drain on resources accelerated under President Bush.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The auto industry is now gearing up to hash out those standards at the SAE conference in Detroit next week — and GM has a major stake in getting them out swiftly. OStatic] Nokia E71x Expected on May 4th: Here’s Reading Material Until Then [jkOnTheRun] Renewable Standards to Spur Moore’s Law for Cleantech?

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