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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Separately, Evatran just announced that the City of Sacramento has joined its Apollo Trial Program to test wireless charging technology on its own electric vehicles (EVs). Evatran plans to have over twenty installations as part of the Apollo Trial Program.

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Neste to begin selling 100% renewable diesel in Finland

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The new product offers environmentally conscious consumers and corporate customers a sustainable and easy solution for reducing traffic-borne emissions. Users of Neste Renewable Diesel include cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Walnut Creek, Carlsbad, and county of Sacramento. —Mika Hyötyläinen, VP, Marketing at Neste Oil Retail.

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Evatran completes 1500+ hours of wireless charging trials with fleets

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Participants represent various industries, from car rental agencies to corporate campuses to utility providers, with installations in locations across the United States. The first participants included Google, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Duke Energy and Clemson University, with installations in the Spring of 2012.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Louis , Mo. Hydroscanner: Instrumentation for water ingress imaging in photovoltaic module packaging materials, $250,000 D2Solar Inc.,

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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They set up a multimedia web site to publicize their ongoing progress but also used Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Earth, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, FreeConferenceCall.com, emails, and texting tools to coordinate both national and state planning committees. Corporate sponsorship for the RAR ( www.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Contact LMirisola@.

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