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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

billion in stimulus grants to the industry. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012. “It’s a conundrum because ultimately there aren’t too many clean energy sources. The city’s overall emissions that year totaled 53.3

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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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