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Yamaha Joins Global Move to Battery Swaps for E-bikes

Cars That Think

Today, noisy, polluting, two-stroke gasoline engines are still ubiquitous across Asia,” says Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Research Analyst for Mobility Ecosystems at Guidehouse Insights “Converting those to electric power will go a long way toward helping countries reach their greenhouse gas emission-reduction targets. “It

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Lishen and ZAP in strategic alliance; funding for several thousand EV conversions in US

Green Car Congress

Z-Smart is being incorporated into these fleet vehicles to improve performance, safety and efficiency of the converted vehicles and to provide convenient mobile communication to the driver on the charge levels and recharging status.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

This technology could reduce electricity/energy bills, pollution from power plants, risks of blackouts, the need for new power plants, and pollution from power plant generation. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Skip to Content Massively explains Warhammer Online to the dedicated WoW player AOL Tech Europe ↓ Polska Deutschland Asia ↓ ???? ???? ??? ???? Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France."

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

So, if you provide EV charging, you get that EV driver who’s coming in pollution-free. If you think about all the vertical cities, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and then Asia and Europe, they don’t have big flat parking lots like you have in Florida or we have in California. They have to run home to recharge.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning.

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