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GM enters commercial agreement with and invests in Powermat, a personal device inductive charging company

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General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012. We first developed the Volt concept car in 2006.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. CSI says this is the world’s first production of a liquid renewable transport fuel from non-biological sources of energy. Click to enlarge.

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Scania unveils new heavy-duty global engine platform

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European markets also have access to an extended range of Euro 5 and EEV engines with SCR technology. The new engines come with a new range of gearboxes—new Scania Opticruise and new Scania Retarder—all with improved performance. The engines can operate on up to 100% biodiesel.

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Audi banking on Gen 2 3.0L TDI diesel for US sales; calls for a “fair shot” for diesel

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The survey is similar to surveys run by UMTRI on the same topic in 2006 and 2007. Fuel cells are seen as hitting 1% by 2025; extended range electric vehicles, 3%; and battery-electric vehicles, 4%. Optimized production time. marketshare in 2012 to 1.25 million units and 7.4% marketshare by 2018—i.e.,

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Goal!

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As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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GM also gave a tour of the pre-production area where we could see production-intent Chevy Volts being assembled. The people I talked about realized you only get one second chance, were very thankful for the government support and were enthusiastic about the products they had coming out over the next 24 months. Click to enlarge.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win!

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