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Ricardo responds to electric drive stimulus package

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Ricardo, one of the leaders in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles, has welcomed President Obama’s announcement of $2.4billion in grants to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of the next generation of US batteries and electric vehicles.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Power plant capital costs. Source: EIA.

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Can green cars solve automotive crisis? The Green Piece

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Honda too has pinned its recovery hopes on green cars, pushing both hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technology. Late last week it raised its full-year profit forecast on the hope that green stimulus efforts around the world will push consumers to offload older vehicles in favour of newer, more eco-friendly alternatives.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

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Related Posts Earth2Tech: Daily Sprout Earth2Tech: Big Three Set (Some) Open Standards for Hybrids, Electric Cars Earth2Tech: GM to Partner With San Francisco for Volt Rollout Powered by Sphere Digg Stumble Reddit del.icio.us version, with cell phones and mobile devices.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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We are thinking about plug-in hybrids, but we aren’tthinking about commercializing one right away,” Fukui said. in Japan’s Kyoto prefecture to make packsfor gasoline-electric hybrid cars. We are thinking aboutextending that application to plug-in hybrids.” Tokyo-based Honda plansstarting producing the vehicles in late 2010.

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Major study concludes achieving EU 2050 transport decarbonization goals will require portfolio of advanced powertrains; fuel cells, battery-electric and plug-in hybrids

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The study—“A portfolio of powertrains for Europe: a fact-based analysis”—compares the economics, sustainability and performance of fuel cell, battery-electric, hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in achieving the decarbonization goal. Non-governmental organizations : European Climate Foundation.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

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Automakers unveiled more than a dozen production-ready, plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles at the Detroit auto show earlier this month, many of which will be on dealership lots between 2010 and 2012. He even knows what a plug-in hybrid is.&#. To be sure, smart meters alone will not produce highways full of electric cars.