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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

@ Apr 19th 2009 4:54PM Or fuel cells (ex: hydrogen). By abstracting devices to use electricity as their fuel, we can concentrate on advancing clean electricity production techniques and have the benefits shared by everything. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

You will be able to charge your car at home at night in three to eight hours, but never be in fear of “running out of juice” because a fast-charge opportunity will be available right around the corner at Starbucks, Safeway, Wal-Mart or your local shopping mall.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. So while my car is powering the great city during the day how will I have juice to drive home at the end of the day? 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our transportation system today is about 98 and a half percent based on burning fossil fuels." If we do things the wrong way, thats going to mean building more power plants, more dirty coal plants," he said. These public charging stations are really the pill to solve the disease we call range anxiety."

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. Reductions in Emissions.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It says the Volt is too little, too lateand too expensive to save the beleaguered automaker, and it recently chastised GM for pumping so much money into the Volt instead of developing more fuel-efficient gasoline cars. GM is developing more fuel-efficient vehicles. Thats short-sighted. It offers 18 models that deliver 30 mpg or more.

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