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Germany Launches H2 Mobility Initiative to Expand Infrastructure for Refueling Hydrogen Vehicles

Green Car Congress

This will take place within the framework of the German economic stimulus package (Konjunkturpaket II) and other national and state programs to jointly address standardization and cost reduction issues. The plan envisages around one million electric cars on German roads by 2020. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

You roust your family and run to the car. And then, with transmission complete and the triggering stimulus gone, the system would shut down and return to a sleep or fully powered-off state. Once the stimulus is removed, the metal finger reverts to its original shape and the switch opens.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

“The idea is for electric cars to take advantage of “off-peak&# hours of low energy demand late at night, when the lights are out and TVs are off, but power plants are still producing, explained Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Edison.&#. Smart meters and electric cars: a match made in efficiency.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Only Old World savants here have even heard of these brands, which crank out millions and millions of cars per year. I have no idea. France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. But P-C, just as big an automaker, was a complete laggard.

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