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Tesla range lawsuit, electric Minis, Nikola, and biogas: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Startup heavy truckmaker Nikola won a federal grant to improve fuel cells. All this and more on Green Car. Mini may go all-electric with its next generation of models. And a European project worked out how to get as much range and efficiency from natural-gas engines as from gasoline.

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USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Green Car Congress

The good news is the farm system can be assembled from off-the-shelf products without new technology. Once implemented, depth-cycling farms could lead to a new way to produce affordable, carbon-neutral fuel year-round. million federal grant to cover the cost of the USC Wrigley Institute study. Navarrete, Diane Y.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: After being sucker-punched first by the recession and then by the closure earlier this year of the NUMMI plant with its nearly 5,000 auto-worker jobs, the Bay Area’s fourth-largest city is suddenly coming to — buoyed by last week’s news that electric-car maker Tesla will jump-start NUMMI. Hub of green tech.

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NC Transportation Center

Plug In Partners

I t's fair to say that the plug in hybrid ( watch video ) was born in California at UC Davis through the vision and tenacity of Andy Frank; but now, as the idea and the technology begins to mature and spread, another State and another University is joining the effort: Here's the story from Channel Nine news : N.C. Join Plug in Partners today.

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Battery companies receive cash boost

Green Cars News

The state refundable tax credits will assist their companies in their efforts for some of the $2billion in Federal grants available for advanced battery research and development. Tags: Green cars Latest news Lithium-ion batteries A123Systems Johnson Controls Saft KD Advanced Battery Group LG Chem Michigan.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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