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Battelle-R&D Magazine forecast predicts 5.2% growth in 2012 global R&D spending to $1.4+T, largely driven by Asian economies; US companies and tech providers to boost energy R&D spending by 23.1% to $6.7B

Green Car Congress

The Battelle-R&D Magazine annual Global R&D Funding Forecast concludes that global research and development (R&D) spending will grow by about 5.2% The team from Battelle and R&D Magazine forecast that a 2.1% Key energy technology development areas by 2014. Global R&D spending 2011. Source: 2012 Global R&D Funding Forecast.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ 15 ] Electric power grids are designed with capacity to serve the highest power peaks demanded (e.g. PHEVLERs help support the electric grid. PHEVLERs are better than BEVs in support of the electric grid.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric. Yet in the United States and China, automakers’ caution, weak price incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric car’s introduction. Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. percent of $1.9 Cleantech Group and Deloitte.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

My wife’s boss gave me a job as a magazine editor for the American Portrait Society in 1981, and I became known in the figurative art world which was a blast while it lasted. That’s exactly what I did, going to work for the South Bay Environmental Services Center, GRID Alternatives and of course 350.org

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

from 2014 to 2019, when he became chief executive of the Los Gatos–based Internet security company. He wrote Microprocessor Logic Design , a widely used textbook, as well as numerous articles for professional and trade magazines. In 1997 he was promoted to captain and served as commanding officer of a Naval Air Systems Command unit.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. And by 2014, you could drive a Tesla cross-country and built into that car's navigation system is what I described earlier the ability to say "Take me from where I am now to this destination. Will we have a universal standard for charging?

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. And by 2014, you could drive a Tesla cross-country and built into that car's navigation system is what I described earlier the ability to say "Take me from where I am now to this destination. Will we have a universal standard for charging?