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ARB fines 12 ocean-going shippers $476,750 for violating low-sulfur fuel regulation

Green Car Congress

The California Air Resources Board has fined 12 shipping companies a combined $476,750 for failure to switch from high-sulfur diesel “bunker” fuel to cleaner, low-sulfur marine distillate fuel upon entering Regulated California Waters, as required by state law. Reederei KG (Germany) - $55,500 Vessel name: BBC Arizona.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of safe laser power beaming prior to our team’s effort was by the company.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

He saw this scheme chiefly as a way for companies to smooth out the volatility of sales and make their business more predictable. A Second Pillar Elias Stein Pillar 2 involves Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud-computing company. But Amazon/AWS could offer a form of partnership with some or all of these big companies.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Also reduces overheads for the company. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. The company had hired 20 Innovas for media transport, two journalists per car. I don’t think the company is currently producing those numbers. The paint shop alone requires about one lakh litres of makeup water every day.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

“If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# So how do energy companies cope with such upheaval? “It took a company from a completely different sector to step in and take control of things ? . but not all of it.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Firefly Energy is the most prominent of these companies. In the U.S. Powered by Blogrunner Latest From Green Inc.

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