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Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power announces $125M in new financing; focus on and support from China

Green Car Congress

The growth capital and Chinese government incentives will be used predominantly to scale manufacturing, research and development, and business development activities in China for the company’s energy storage technology and products. Boston-Power, Inc., GSR Ventures has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Purcell, Jr., Earlier post.).

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. We are all stampeding towards an electric vehicle future. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. 0.9 - 0.95X.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks.

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