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South Bay Bicycle Coalition Scores $240,000 Grant! Huge Grassroots Victory for Brand New Bike Group

Creative Greenius

We’re the most ideal place in the United States to ride a bike and like most other places in the country today our kids and community suffer from some serious rates of obesity. The group hopes to see more South Bay cities install such bicycle-friendly facilities. Steve McCrank, Daily Breeze Staff Photographer).

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National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries Opts for Kentucky Site for Li-ion Plant

Green Car Congress

NAATBatt is a not-for-profit industry consortium of more than 50 corporations, associations and research institutions dedicated to making the United States a world leader in the manufacture of advanced lithium-ion or Li-Ion battery cells for transportation applications.

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Feds Offer Free Chargers

Revenge of the Electric Car

Nine United States regions will receive 4,600 free chargers for public and private use through the ChargePoint America program, funded in part by $15 million in stimulus funds administered by the Energy Department. Tags: EV Chargers EV Economics Obama Energy. Ford, General Motors and Smart are partners.

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Exclusive Greenius Coverage of Today’s Clean Tech Roundtable

Creative Greenius

And in the US, not only is the Obama administration providing a major stimulus program, but 31 states are enacting incentives and mandates to require clean alternative energy for utilities. Recycling – Simply put, the United State is the Saudi Arabia of garbage.

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Tesla + Toyota

Revenge of the Electric Car

“Now we can become the electric-car capital of the United States.&#. And as if on cue, the White House announced last week that President Barack Obama on Wednesday will visit Solyndra. . “This is a great day for Fremont, the beginning of a new industry and a new chapter in our history,&# said the mayor. Despite an 8.4

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Yet in the United States and China, automakers’ caution, weak price. Yet in the United States and China, automakers’ caution, weak price incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric car’s introduction. Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. percent of $1.9

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

And the same people who lapped that stuff up like the mindless minions they are, today use words like “socialist&# to describe President Obama and they nod along like bobble heads to every word of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. That’s a phenomenal accomplishment considering how much our electronic footprint grew in that time period.

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