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Ionic Materials raises $65M in Series C; polymer electrolyte for solid-state batteries

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Ionic Materials has secured $65 million in a Series C financing round from a leading group of financial and strategic investors. Joy served as chief scientist there until 2003. Bill Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim.

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Government of Québec unveils $2.7B climate change action plan; 63% of spending targeting transport

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The PACC 2020 is self-financed from the carbon market and the extension until 2014 of the fuel levy and fossil fuels. GHG emissions in Québec reached their historic peak in 2003 to 6.8% The action plan and strategy adaptation represent a total investment of nearly C$2.7 billion (US$2.6 Almost 63% (C$1.7 above the level of 1990.

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Exxon/Mobil To Fund Solar Financing Bond For Torrance Homeowners

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In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. It’s a pretty good idea isn’t it?

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

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Having worked for car dealerships, manufacturers, an auction house, and an auto finance company, I’m convinced there is no other industry that attracts& such a diverse cast of characters. I spent 33 years in the automobile business, the equivalent of 96 human years.

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Tesla replays DOE loan nine years early

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For the first seven years since its founding in 2003, Tesla was funded entirely with private funds, led by Elon Musk. The Department first offered loans to Tesla and other auto manufacturers in June 2009, when car companies couldn’t get other financing and many people questioned whether the industry would survive.

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EIA: China promoting both fuel efficiency and alternative-fuel vehicles to curb growing oil use

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million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2003 to more than 2 million bbl/d in 2013, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Additionally, in 2012 the Chinese Ministry of Finance announced it would provide annual subsidies up to two billion yuan ($323.6 Consumption of gasoline in China grew from 0.9

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Dow and HPL Sign Li-ion Technology Transfer Agreement; Dow Kokam JV Acquires Assets of Kokam America

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HPL was spun out from Professor Graetzel’s laboratory at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2003 and is focused on the development of nano-structured metal oxide energy storage materials and novel electrolytes for use in next generation lithium ion batteries.

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