Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Second, a Congressional Budget Office study issued in April said even with subsidies ethanol is only profitable when a gallon of gasoline costs 70% or more than a bushel of corn, i.e, On 18 March, Marketwatch reported that Valero purchased selected assets of corn ethanol suppliers for $477 million. Tags: Ethanol.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2010

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. David Runnalls, president of IISD.

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Parts Fuel 2010 Climate Change 207

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 22, 2007

In January GM announced the Volt, a smart idea that makes use of the two existing primary energy infrastructures - the electric grid and gasoline stations. As it struggles to get even one car on the road, GM is in Shanghai spinning the future, as reported in the Detroit News. Lutz says GM hopes to have one working car by year's end.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. report titled, “The Comeback of the Electric Car? Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. The group pointed to a B.C.G. Volt will survive and prosper,” G.M.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. As you can see in the collection of media reports that follow, comments on PHEVs have often been contradictory. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Munger, the 85-year-old vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is a curmudgeon who frowns on most investment ideas. "When I call Charlie with an idea," Buffett tells me, "and he says, That is really a dumb idea, that means we should put 100% of our net worth into it. "They are the top of the top," he says.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric cars remain dependent on the development of better,affordable batteries. The smallfour-seater Mitsubishi iMiEV uses lithium-ion but is likely to cost up to£20,000 when it becomes available here later this year. Their solution to the cost of thenew-generation batteries is to separate them from the car itself.

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