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Better Place, China Southern Grid sign strategic agreement on battery switching; Guangzhou accord to encourage production of EVs with switchable batteries

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Better Place and China Southern Power Grid Co. The Guangzhou accord calls for the municipal government to encourage local car manufacturers, such as Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, to produce electric cars with switchable batteries. CSG is the world’s eighth-largest utility, according to the Fortune Global 500.

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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

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For example, the investor offering the lowest feed-in tariff would be awarded the contract to build a new wind farm. In addition, a fleet regulation for power plant fleets modeled after the automobile industry would be an effective way to limit the average CO 2 emissions of the power utilities and further reduce emissions.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. By partnering with these two industries. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009. This is unusual.

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