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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

“We’re taking a measured approach to Texas,” said Robert Mintak, Standard’s CEO. The Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources told Reuters it does not have existing statutes related to lithium. But Standard can’t touch that lithium until regulations are set.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. vehicles (EVs) without draining the electric battery, in effect, extending the driving range of EVs per electric charge.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next,” which concludes the costs of creating an automotive market dominated by electric and hybrid cars are prohibitively high for the foreseeable future – as high as $49 billion for Europe alone (along with another $21 billion for battery-charging infrastructure). Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Finally, in a first-of-its-kind partnership in the United States, Mitsubishi announced a strategic alliance with Oregon to develop an electric car charging infrastructure in the state. The big problems now is how to create a battery that can charge rapidly and infrastructure to charge them. If you charge with solar, is way less.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. Charge, drain, repeat is extremely inefficient. Aren’t we just exchanging one nonrenewable resource for another? “You guys own the cars.&# — J Connors 4.

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