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GE to Open Sodium-Metal Halide Battery Plant in New York

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The first application will be GE’s hybrid locomotive, which will be commercialized in 2010. The announcement coincides with GE’s submission this week for federal stimulus dollars from the US Department of Energy. Earlier post.). Battery Requirements for Hybrid Locomotives. 1,000 kWh useable energy. high utilization.

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PwC’s Autofacts forecasts global light vehicle assembly to reach 81.8M units in 2013, up 3.3% from 2012

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While the EU sees potential recovery, North America sold more vehicles in September 2013 than it did in all of 2010, easily surpassing last year’s 14.4 Stimulus measures such as lowered interest rates are offset by tighter credit restrictions in lending, restraining the full-year 2013 sales forecast to approximately 1.3% million units.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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GM may be in bankruptcy but remains unwavering in its commitment to have the Volt in some showrooms by November 2010. President Obama has stated a commitment to 1 million plug-in cars by 2015. Mitsubishi has begun to manufacture the iMiev in the thousands for the Japanese market. Will we get our money’s worth? Such as the $1.1

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