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California Startup Aurica Motors Trying to Keep NUMMI Plant Open for Manufacturing Electric Cars, Battery Swap System

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Under the proposed plan, the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California would be converted into the manufacturing facility for the Aurica Motors E-Car, an all-electric vehicle, as well as Aurica’s proposed PEP (Power Exchange Package) battery swap system. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system.

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SoCal Edison opens 32 MWh battery energy storage project, largest in North America; batteries from LG Chem

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Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energy storage project in North America—the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. This installation will allow us to take a serious look at the technological capabilities of energy storage on the electric grid.

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Exclusive Greenius Coverage of Today’s Clean Tech Roundtable

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The agenda included: Bob Foster, Mayor of Long Beach; Jeremy Snyder, General Manager of Tesla Motors; Steve Westly, Former State Controller, Bobby Shriver from the Santa Monica City Council, John Chiang, the California State Controller; Bill Locker, the California State Treasurer and the once and future Governor of California, Jerry Brown.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Without the CAFE standard and stimulus monies to promote green vehicle tech, the industry would not be headed toward a greener horizon.

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Next 10 report finds California must increase GHG reductions to 4.9%/year through 2030 to meet target

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Data from the report illustrate that California now must reduce emissions by an average of 4.9% The largest one-year emissions drop California has ever achieved was at the height of the Great Recession in 2009, when climate pollution fell 6.1%. in a year while not experiencing an economic downturn since California passed AB 32 in 2006.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

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And so it was that I found myself in the Hermosa Beach City Council Chambers addressing the Green Task Force audience you cannot see in this photo as I presented my Finding The Green To Green The Grid House By House PowerPoint. SBESC's Marilyn Lyon talks about Federal Stimulus Funding / photo (c) Debra Bushweit Galliani.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. California hasn’t blinked in its commitment to Schwarznegger’s pet project, the hydrogen highway. But their dreams haven’t yet been sunk. Such as the $1.1

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