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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. Batteries that go farther than the competitions and recharge in a shorter time will win. The business world hopes shes right. And they exist. auto manufacturers.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. Providing the recharging infrastructure will require roughly an additional $50 billion. One country set to benefit from increased demand for gas is Russia, which is the subject of a special in-depth study in WEO-2011.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc.

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