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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a business in a program area, you can get the same deal - free charge stations paid for by stimulus money. Nissan LEAF buyers are excluded. Ecotality's EV Project got an exclusive.)

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Annual investment in the global renewables industry had grown from $16.5

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EPFL/Technion team develops “champion” nanostructures for efficient solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen

Green Car Congress

Today we have just reached an important milestone on the path that will lead us forward to profitable industrial applications. The whole point of our approach is to use an exceptionally abundant, stable and cheap material: rust. Its efficiency was such that gas bubbles emerged as soon as it was under a light stimulus.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. The best part? “You may see that start to happen in the energy sector.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Claim to fame: part and parcel of the regulations-driven surge, Portugal went from 4.9% France’s auto industry is probably the largest Western auto industry that goes completely under the radar in the US. If Norway also had an auto or EV-battery industry, no country could catch it in the charts. EV share, with ~20k sold.

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