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Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

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The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport. This energy warehouse allows a larger proportion of Viva’s solar-generated electricity to be used for the housing association’s power needs. —Ylva Olofsson, Project Coordinator at Volvo.

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EnerNOC and Tesla to collaborate on stationary energy storage

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Energy management today is more complicated than simply buying power from the utility. Cheap cells made in the Gigafactory are only part of the puzzle. Unlike electric vehicles, in stationary batteries there is more of a relative cost contribution coming from power electronics, software, and installation.

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Feature: Choosing the Right Car to Suit Your Needs

Clean Fleet Report

No car comes particularly cheap. Whether you save up and purchase a vehicle outright or take out a loan or finance plan at current car interest rates , you’re going to want to make sure that you’re getting the most for your money. When you buy a car, you need to opt for something that will fall into your budget.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke. They buy to make money.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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And oil only seems cheap. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. Since our cars and trucks use almost two-thirds of the oil we buy, the quickest way to cut oil use is to free transportation from its grip. We can’t continue ever-riskier experiments to get oil from remote locations. We just had to do it.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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Emissions, however, are produced elsewhere, when the electricity used to power the vehicles is generated. The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. Our mission is to prepare students for top careers in finance.