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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. Auto accidents are also the leading cause of death for people between 3-33 years old.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. SZ (1) 6753.T

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GM on the brink…

Revenge of the Electric Car

It also said it had suspended merger talks with Chrysler to focus on its own increasingly urgent problems, brought on by higher gas prices, a weakening economy and tight credit — a combination afflicting the entire auto industry, but hurting G.M. The government faces a difficult choice. If it provides G.M.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Much as I admire the Obama administration’s energy and environment team, there’s no way that the U.S. Li Lu has agreed to come to FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference next week to talk about BYD. On the downside, it’s hard to know whether BYD has a strong bench of managers behind Mr. Wang. China’s commitment to clean energy.

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