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Report: Sumitomo to begin selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles with US Hybrid

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the giant Japanese integrated trading company, will start selling fuel cells for commercial vehicles via a partnership with California-based US Hybrid. For example, Sumitomo Metal Industries developed the world’s first high performance stainless steel for bipolar plates. The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Corp., Abas Goodarzi, Ph.D,

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Best speakers ever

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Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose. Freund also mentioned Guy Kaplinsky, cofounder and CEO of ASKA Fly , where his team is working with NASA on a plug-in hybrid flying car. Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999.

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Delphi Using $89.3M DOE Award to Support Expansion of Power Electronics Engineering and New Manufacturing Facility; First Products for Allison

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Among the first products expected to be manufactured at the new facility will be power electronics components and systems for Allison Transmission, a leading supplier of commercial-duty fully automatic transmissions for both on- and off-highway vehicles, and of hybrid propulsion systems for on-highway transit and coach vehicles. Earlier post.)

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What up with GM's Plug-in hybrid Volt?

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Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. The auto industry has disappointed before when it comes to green technology. took an image beating when it backed away from a pledge to put 250,000 hybrids on the road by 2010. Last year, Ford Motor Co.

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Green Autos in the Times: Hybrid Hype, Hydrogen Hooey and Electric Dreams

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Usually devoted to crass boosterism of America's largest manufacturing industry, these articles still contain a lot of that. Toyota comes in for a smackdown by Lawrence Ulrich ( Conspicuous Consumption With Green Illusions ) on it's high class hybrids. Especially as displayed in Adam B. Just because they say so.

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Is GM's Plug-in Hybrid for Real? What Say Big Enviro?

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Lots of ink on GM's plug-in hybrid announcement. With headlines like "GM Promises Plug-in Hybrid," Waggoner's statement in LA moves plug-in cars back into the public discussion of petroleum alternatives. George Bush, oilman, seems to understand the commonsense benefits of plug-in hybrids. Irony abounds.

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

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Simply the latest industry stalling tactic. If you've got hundreds of millions of trouble-free NiMH miles in hybrids and electric cars, why bet the bank on relatively untested if promising lithium? Perhaps Lutz's mistaken impressions about the EV1 and electric cars color his understanding of what NiMH can achieve. (Or

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