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GE Capital, NRG Energy and ConocoPhillips form $300M JV to fund emerging energy technology

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GE Capital, through its business units GE Energy Financial Services and GE Capital, Equity, is already an active energy technology venture and growth capital investor globally. Four of those companies have achieved successful initial public offerings: A123 Systems, Codexis , Orion Energy Systems and China High Speed Transmission.

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Siemens Investing $15M in Israeli Solar Power Company Arava

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MW at Kibbutz Ketura, in the southern desert of Israel. Additional photovoltaic plants are already being planned for the Negev and Arava deserts and Israel’s aim is to meet around ten percent of its total energy needs with renewable energy plants by 2020. The company, with some 20 employees, is a subsidiary of Global Sun Power Ltd.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance and Electromotive to Collaborate on Charging Infrastructure

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The Alliance and Elektromotive signed a Memorandum of Understanding on studying ways to promote the use of electric vehicles and will share information on EV development and energy supply on a global scale. To date, it has installed more than 40 charging bays in London and a further 40 in other major UK cities.

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Nissan Updates on Nissan Green Program 2010; New Vehicle CO2 Needs to Be Reduced 90% by 2050

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Along with the mid-term NGP 2010 plan, originally announced in December 2006, Nissan is reviewing its long-term CO 2 emissions-reduction scenarios. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), global CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere should be stabilized below 450 ppm, Nissan noted. .;

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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In 2006 the JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) started work on a device at several centers in the U.S. Meanwhile, funding was expanding for research on other aspects of the artificial pancreas. and across Europe; in 2008 the U.S.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Hymotion, February 2006 Hymotion Toronto, Ontario info@hymotion.com 6.

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BMW Group launches high performance D3 platform: data-driven development for autonomous driving

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The fleet currently numbers around 80 BMW 7 Series cars, which are in operation on the west coast of the USA, in Germany, Israel and China. Data can be gathered globally but monitored centrally. Six years later, in 2006, a BMW was following the racing line around the Hockenheim circuit without human assistance for the first time.

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