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GM and Hawaii Gas Company to Collaborate on Hydrogen Infrastructure Pilot; Different Approach to Provisioning Fueling Stations

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General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. TGC H 2 Production. The Gas Company currently produces synthetic natural gas from naptha and hydrogen, will plans to include plant oils and animal fats as feedstocks in the future.

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Toyota Plug In

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which makes Panasonic products, will begin producing lithium-ion batteries next year and move into full-scale production in 2010, Toyota said. Event Summary Oil prices are at record highs. The joint venture that Toyota set up with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

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Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. Q: In the past, you’ve pointed out that big car companies keep delaying EV production for the consumer market. In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. customers $600 a month to lease.Honda hasn’t revealed its production price. Oil prices are going to go up. Still, the company will respond to a push by theObama administration for carmakers to sell plug-ins, he said. “We

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Li-ion Reserve in the World: How it Revolutionised the EV Industry

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Newly found reservoirs of petroleum and crude oil decreased the oil price. Tesla Motors began production in 2008 with the Roadster, which was essentially an AC Propulsion vehicle with kit-car parts replaced by one-grade-above-kit-car Lotus Elise pieces in the first generation. Germany, China, Japan, U.S

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