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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

In particular, Prentice seeks to shield Alberta’s emissions-intensive oil sands operations from the effects of emission reductions. Given that China’s economy is still growing, such a strategy is unlikely to result in year-to-year emissions reductions for several decades. Canada’s 2009 GHG emissions are 48.7%

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam sent between buildings at the University of Maryland.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. On the threat from China for raw material supplies for Ola’s cell manufacturing China controls the processing of raw material, not the raw material itself. As Lithium prices increase, like oil, there would be more exploration.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent. — Volt Enthusiast 7.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More often than not, the “recycling&# of NiMH or lithium-ion batteries involves shipping them off to places like China, where their fate is truly unknown. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon? April 13, 2009 3:28 am Link The driver has a killer stash! Anyway, you should check out the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?

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