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Daimler starts production of new smart fortwo electric drive; buy or lease the vehicle, rent the battery

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The new “sale&care model” offers customers an opportunity to buy, finance or lease the vehicle and to rent the battery for a monthly fee. The one millionth smart fortwo was built in September 2008, coinciding with the tenth birthday of the brand. Purchase, financing or leasing of the vehicle including the battery is also possible.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Here’s the version I remember hearing in New Jersey: A man goes on vacation and his brother agrees to housesit for him — feeding the cat, picking up the newspapers and mail, watering the plants, etc. Right now, here in 2008 the cat is on the roof for global warming. ” “What!?

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IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world

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On 6 January, the two power companies—Northeast Utilities and National Grid—that had agreed to buy energy from Cape Wind terminated their contracts, saying Cape Wind had missed the 31 December deadline to obtain financing and begin construction. Northeast Utilities and its subsidiary NStar had agreed to buy 27.5%

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EEA: Traffic pollution still harmful to health in many parts of Europe

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After a sharp drop between 2008 and 2009, it grew 5.4% Buying a car has become steadily cheaper in real terms since the mid-1990s, the report notes, while train travel and passenger transport by water has become more expensive. Freight transport demand is particularly sensitive to economic fluctuations.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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2009), reproduced from Ramanathan and Feng (2008) Click to enlarge. Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author From Molina et al. co-author Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD.

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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

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It allows more consumers to buy some electric driving sooner, and thus to experience and form value for electric driving. Let’s talk about water quality, local emissions, natural resources and the wars that come from places that don’t have enough natural resources. Kurani (2008) The Early U.S. Ken Kurani. Tax the fuel.”

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Has Fusion Really Had Its "Wright Brothers" Moment?

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With that in mind, we spoke with Charles Seife , a professor of science journalism at NYU and author of the 2008 book Sun in a Bottle : The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking. But I don't buy it. Go back a few years, and there's an eerily similar news cycle, with previous milestones and promises of progress.

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