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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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An energy mix with 40 percent green energy—rather than the planned 50 percent by 2030—is both ecologically as well as economically sensible. Utilities with a fleet of aging power plants would then be forced to improve their CO 2 balance step-by-step. —Peter Löscher. The Three-Point Plan.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. By partnering with these two industries. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By

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