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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

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It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. Debra and I finally got our first electric car, A 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV, a joint production with Tesla, in January of 2013. Let me tell you about it.

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

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OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc.

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GM and ABB demonstrate community energy storage system built from 5 used Volt batteries; Duke Energy testing

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During a symposium for the media on GM’s electrification efforts, including a preview of the Spark EV to be unveiled at the LA Auto Show in two weeks, General Motors and ABB showed and demonstrated a new grid distributed micro-storage (at grid scale) system—i.e., Click to enlarge. Duke supports about 4.2

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Catalytic Biocrude Production in a Novel, Short-contact Time Reactor.

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