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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

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The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer. And the Tesla gigafactory is just the tip of this overall iceberg.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Will Congress finally approve consumer-oriented legislation that has stalled for years? More Hired by Uncle Sam After serving his country, Jon Leitzinger was hired by the Federal Aviation Administration. Now buyers, like the Lamuses, are venturing back.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

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Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. If the “Big Three auto manufacturers aren’t building alternative energy vehicles with the money they’re getting from Congress, then what are they doing with it?

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts by the late 1930s, and nowhere more so than in New York. Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts.