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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

This opinion piece originally appeared in the Field-to-Pump blog, published by Renergie, Inc. ]. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. by Brian J. Donovan, CEO Renergie, Inc. Use of Hydrous Ethanol in Brazil.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Like electric cars, electric bicycles are classified as zero-emission vehicles, meaning they emit no exhaust gases. Even taking that into account, though, an electric bicyle wins out handsomely in the emission competition with a petrol-driven car, as it is 15-20 times more efficient. Tags: evdriven. All rights reserved.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But in recent months new players, including the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Daimler AG and battery maker Electrovaya , have come onto the scene as well — making China look more and more likely to give electric cars a strong push into the mass market. Nissan announced plans in November to start selling electric cars in the country by 2012.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. No, but I knew who they were and they wrote the books and they lived in L.A. Well more so now than it was prior to 2006 and that’s just because electric cars are becoming more readily available.

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