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Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power announces $125M in new financing; focus on and support from China

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Additionally, through its stimulus programs and local industrial policies, the Chinese government is providing a range of grants, low-interest loans and related financial and tax incentives. Due to the strategy to focus predominantly on China in both the immediate and longer term, the company is reallocating its global resources.

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Grant Thornton LLP Warns of Potential Collapse of Automotive Supply Chain

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Meanwhile, adding further downside pressure is that banks in many cases are working to reduce their exposure to the auto industry. Don’t Overreach: With the entire supply chain so vulnerable, automakers should err on the conservative side when forecasting volumes for new or resourced programs. Laura Marcero

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Has the cash for clunkers scheme failed? The Green Piece

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Though the scheme proved so popular that the initial $1billion set aside for it ran out last month, auto sales only rose by 2.4 Of course any upward momentum is to be welcomed and Congress has now approved a further $2billion as an emergency top-up for the programme (see article ). So is this scheme green at all?

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

But an increasingly important energy resource is little more than a digital electric meter. Studies have found that electric vehicles could be charged with electricity produced under the current system, if done at the right time, agreed National Resources Defense Council scientist Simon Mui. He even knows what a plug-in hybrid is.&#.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. DE (1) Agricultural offsets (1) Always On Going Green (1) Applied Materials (1) Appropedia (1) Aqua Resources Fund (1) Arnold Schwarzenegger (1) BMWG.F (1) The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA SZ (1) 6753.T

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