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MIT Report Outlines System-Oriented Coordinated Polices for Reduction in Light-Duty Vehicle Petroleum Use and Emissions

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The recommended policies would require manufacturers to make more fuel-efficient cars; encourage consumers to buy them; and then drive them in a fuel-efficient manner. This should include standardizing the presentation of key information on car-buying websites. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuel Efficiency Policy.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. INTRODUCTION.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Developing a domestic car-battery industry should be the focus of both corporations and the U.S. To keep U.S.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. and Toronto, Ont.,

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

Creative Greenius

He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” It’s expensive and my clients don’t finance. Because for one, financing isn’t available anymore and two, early adopters are a different crowd. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Tags: Environmental Politics Saving Energy Yes We Can! He was a geek.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. More Andy Grove on battery power More Is it time to buy American Express?

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2010 Aptera 2e First Drive and Video on Inside Line

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The company so far has been operating on just $30 million in start-up financing. The plans for the 2010 Aptera 2e are at once sensible — slow corporate growth at first — and grandiose — 100,000 vehicles a year at peak production, with a variety of powertrains and even a four-seater in the mix.

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