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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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Coulomb Technologies unveiled San Francisco's first ChargePoint America charge stations yesterday in a Priority Parking lot along the Embarcadero. Tags: chargepoint america coulomb technologies aerovironment public charging clipper creek leviton.

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Phoenix to Build a Plug-in Hybrid Pick-up

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UQM Technologies announced today it will supply plug-in hybrid systems as well as all-electric drive systems for Phoenix Motors' sport utility trucks. Tags: plug-in hybrid phoenix motor cars uqm technologies.

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Plug-in hybrid by who?

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In a joint venture with Quantum Technologies , retaining the Fisker moniker, Fisker Automotive now has a one page website. Tags: plug-in hybrid fisker quantum technologies. The Fisker Coachbuild name meant nothing to me, but I'm not really an auto geek.

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BMW considers extending MINI-E leases

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The MINI-E program is going well enough that BMW is considering allowing leases extensions, Richard Steinberg the program manager said at CARB's ZEV Technology Symposium today.

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Chu speaks on hydrogen and fuel cells

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And so it always looked like it was going to be [a technology for] the distant future. In order to get significant deployment, you need four significant technological breakthroughs. From an interview with Kevin Bullis of Technology Review, here. So you have four things that have to happen all at once. That makes it unlikely.

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Toyota President's New Year's Letter

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He mentions continued focus on hybrid technologies, including "research and development for plug-in hybrids" and the introduction in Brazil of a "flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) that can run on 100 percent bioethanol fuel." Toyota released (and EVworld.com reprints ) President Watanabe's New Year's letter to employees.

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Missed Charge Station Opportunity in San Francisco

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Instead, the Department of the Environment has opted to utilize a federal grant to Coulomb Technologies' ChargePoint America to pay to upgrade these charge stations. No card to swipe, no phone call to make, no network to join. Just as they have been for over ten years. What's the problem? 50,000 to $100,000 was left on the table.