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Rio Tinto and Alcoa announce world’s first carbon-free aluminum smelting process; Apple assist; Elysis JV to commercialize

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Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corporation announced a revolutionary process to make aluminum that produces only oxygen as a by-product, eliminating all direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process. In Canada alone, use of the technology could eliminate the equivalent of 6.5

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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It’s actually a corporate objective. how many trees the managers will remove either for sale or to better support the regrowth of the redwoods. REDD+ is a specific implementation of a climate change mitigation solution of the UN-REDD Programme. This goes beyond just selling electric vehicles. hack and squirt).

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Volvo To Go All Electric By 2030 – EV Week in Review: Feb 23-Mar 1

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Lucid’s top executive said the pandemic has affected the startup’s testing activities, supply chain, and its preparations for sales and service. Previously the company said that customers would start receiving their sedans this spring. – February 26, via BusinessInsider.

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DOT, EPA Set National Standards for Fuel Economy and First Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels For Light-Duty Vehicles

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Each light vehicle model produced for sale in the United States will have a fuel economy target. The CAFE levels that must be met by the fleet of each manufacturer will be determined by computing the sales-weighted harmonic average of the targets applicable to each of the manufacturer’s passenger cars and light trucks. Earlier post.).

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. Developing a domestic car-battery industry should be the focus of both corporations and the U.S. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 20.84% Apr 17 3:57pm ET † Index Last % Change Dow Jones 8,131.33

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 20.84% Apr 17 3:57pm ET † Index Last % Change Dow Jones 8,131.33 6.23% Lam Research Corporation 27.89

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia GM is committed to putting the system in the Chevrolet Volt for sale by 2010, Lutz said. Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. Detroit Free Press ). GM Press Release ). New York Times ) 10/22/07 ".in

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