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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

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And we all won’t be driving a Prius either – I’ll have my electric pickup truck in a few years too. ECOtality Advertisement With General Motors, Nissan and Daimler – among others – all racing to come out with electric cars by 2010, it’s clear that electric cars are the solution and will soon be the norm.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

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"If we do things the wrong way, thats going to mean building more power plants, more dirty coal plants," he said. He said company officials chose Seattle because the population is "at the forefront of really living its environmental ethos" and because the city runs on clean hydroelectric power. They are doing it right," he said. "By

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. " The feds arent convinced. GM doesnt have a chance.

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