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MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply

Green Car Congress

Without systematic, transformative changes, the US is unlikely to succeed either in averting the worst economic and environmental consequences of climate change or in achieving a secure, affordable and reliable energy supply. The project was supported by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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How does leasing an electric car work?

Drive Electric

When you lease a car, a finance company effectively buys it from the manufacturer and leases it to you for the duration of your contract. It’s a great way to drive a brand new car without having to finance the entire cost. Affordable. Or burdening your business with an asset it may not be able to afford in the future.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

No, but I knew who they were and they wrote the books and they lived in L.A. He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” Yeah, they can afford it. It’s expensive and my clients don’t finance. Because for one, financing isn’t available anymore and two, early adopters are a different crowd.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

auto finance and is now even into second hand cars. Steel prices have gone north in two years, am sure that the market value of the asset will be much more than the book value. The company opened bookings in March and they believe that they will be able to deliver all of March booking in the next two months.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. The introduction of affordable noise management systems offers multiple benefits to manufacturers and consumers alike, achieving eco-friendly optimization of vehicle weight reductions and improved CO2 emissions.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

My new solar system only needs to be 2 kilowatts now instead of 4 – which is good because solar’s still too damn expensive and the process for putting AB 811 financing in place is taking too damn long, (and that’s another Greenius post that I’m still working on).

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid. Shoup stayed at PARC, supported by Kay’s research group, while Smith moved on, armed with a National Education Association grant to do computer art.

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