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MECA: 31,283 Diesel Retrofits in US in 2008

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The total number of diesel retrofit devices (for both on-road and off-road diesel engines) sold in the US (including California) by Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association ( MECA ) member companies in 2008 was 31,283, according to the latest MECA annual survey.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Ed Feo is a partner with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and was voted one of the “Five Most Influential People in Renewable Energy” in 2008 by Euromoney / Institutional Investor. We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008). Billion vs. $28.3

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New Flyer Defers Indefinitely Production of 140 Diesel-Electric Hybrid Buses Due to Delays in Customer Receiving State Funding

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The customer planned to fund this order solely from state monies as federal stimulus monies available to the customer were allocated to other capital projects. Notwithstanding the deferred order, New Flyer expects that full-year total production for fiscal 2009 should not be less than the 2,164 EUs delivered in fiscal 2008.

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ZAP, Zhejiang Jonway Partner to Target China and Export EV Markets

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liter Mitsubishi engine.) In 2009, China overtook the United States as the world’s largest automobile market with sales increasing 46 percent from 2008 to 13.6 ZAP hopes to leverage a stimulus from the government for plug-in forms of transportation. The conventional A380 is powered by a 1.6-

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

All-electric cars, like the upcoming Nissan Leaf, have a range of about 100 miles and are powered by electric motors instead of the gas-powered internal combustion engine found in most current cars. In 2008, transportation accounted for 22 percent of all city carbon emissions. million metric tons of transportation emissions in 2008.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

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We noted in December that the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, was working to update standards for the interface between plug-in electric cars and the grid, and planned to agree on a set within months. of improvement every two years drives innovation, adoption — and most importantly in the quest for grid parity — cost.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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First, the industry is approaching the ethanol-to-gasoline blend wall of 10% ethanol, 90% gasoline in standard gas engines. In 2008, Valero Energy CEO Bill Kless had said that using corn to produce ethanol will make food so expensive in poor countries that it will cause more misery than global warming. Earlier post.).