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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a business in a program area, you can get the same deal - free charge stations paid for by stimulus money. Nissan LEAF buyers are excluded. Ecotality's EV Project got an exclusive.)

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. While at Goldman Sachs, Auerbach was part of a team that invested $1.5

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EPFL/Technion team develops “champion” nanostructures for efficient solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

The whole point of our approach is to use an exceptionally abundant, stable and cheap material: rust. Its efficiency was such that gas bubbles emerged as soon as it was under a light stimulus. A European funding and the Swiss federal government could provide support for this last part. —Michael Grätzel. —Scott C.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Instead, the focus over the coming years will apparently be on including the vehicle’s battery as part of a local home or office area network. The best part? 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.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Claim to fame: part and parcel of the regulations-driven surge, Portugal went from 4.9% The only exception to this geographical intra-Europe rule was Ukraine, entering the Top 10 in 2016-2018 on the power of grassroots-driven lively market of second-hand EV imports, which seems to have stalled in 2019-2020. EV share, with ~20k sold.

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