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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Commercial EVs have been on the job for years now, at dozens of companies, in just about every conceivable use case, and they’ve proven that they can do the job better, quieter, more safely and above all, cheaper. Rustam Kocher: I think it’s going to be an issue for any company that has a large battery pack. Will the lights all dim?

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

Green Car Congress

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. And oil only seems cheap. Pioneering companies now have designs to turn gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles into all-electrics or plug-in hybrids, depending on how they’re built and the range their drivers need.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Apollo Pro promises to be the first electric hyper scooter

Green Authority

The Montreal-based company may have outdone themselves with their upcoming Apollo Pro scooter; this might be the most impressive and expensive scooter that Apollo has ever made. The top speed, the light intensity, the color, and the sound of the horn can all be customized via the Apollo App. Hype for the Hyper Scooter.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It is no sweat to restart, so the temptation to zip through a red traffic light, menacing people as you do so, is removed. As your correspondent waits at a light, a fit pedal cyclist pulls up beside her. Our mission is to prepare students for top careers in finance. The pedals are there should you wish to use them. An electric?

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Passenger light-duty vehicles (PLDVs) remain the single largest component of transport oil consumption, although shrinking from about 45% share today to 39% by 2035. Passenger light-duty vehicles. Click to enlarge. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

To survive, help is needed from Italys Fiat but, as negotiations with the Italian automaker bog down and the two week deadline to hammer out a partnership approaches, the companys future - as well as its aspirations for an electric hot rod - are increasingly in doubt. More How healthy are your finances?