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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

Green Car Congress

billion cubic feet, bcf) were converted to gasoline, it would produce 450,000 barrels per day, he suggested. van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars.

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EV Briefs, and Black Rock City & EVs

Plugs and Cars

The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. Contracts for lithium batteries for the plug-in hybrid Saturn Vue and the Chevrolet Volt have received much press.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

The biggest government spenders on auto research, the federal government and the state of California, remain focused not on hybrids but on fuel-cell-powered cars that use hydrogen. Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor. Some auto makers say the vehicles are more vulnerable to wear and tear than other hybrids.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Continues promotion and development of hydrogen as long-term strategy. Establishing dealer network.

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