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Siemens Investing $15M in Israeli Solar Power Company Arava

Green Car Congress

MW at Kibbutz Ketura, in the southern desert of Israel. Additional photovoltaic plants are already being planned for the Negev and Arava deserts and Israel’s aim is to meet around ten percent of its total energy needs with renewable energy plants by 2020.

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bikes had their own express lanes, their own concrete lane barriers, their own street lights, their own place on subways, their own bus racks, their own hipster club parking spaces, their own prams, even their own kind of road-rage. Vegas anyone? And entrepreneurs were in ample supply too.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. I don’t just drive to work everyday with nothing more than a bag of golf clubs like the TV ads profess Californians are doing. forgot.water and electricity dont mix well.