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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Like many universities of the day, it did not concern itself with intellectual property, believing such matters to be confined to the commercial world. No one at Asahi Chemical knew how to build production batteries at commercial scale, nor did the company own the coating or winding equipment needed to manufacture batteries.

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Eliminate fuel vehicles in the UK to enlarge the move

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“We will require new homes and buildings to have electric vehicle charging points,” Johnson told the annual conference of the Confederation of Commerce and Industry (CBI). “We are investing in new projects to convert wind energy into hydrogen,” Johnson said, according to a summary of his speech released on Monday.

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“Energiewende” in a tank; Audi e-fuels targeting carbon-neutral driving with synthetic fuels from renewables, H2O and CO2; Swiss policy test case

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solar and wind), water and CO 2 to produce liquid or gaseous fuels with a very low carbon intensity. In May, Global Bioenergies presented the first batch of e-benzin to Audi by Global Bioenergies during a press conference. Audi’s basic goal is to combine renewable energy (e.g.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

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For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. How about a car-mounted wind-generator? DaimlerChrysler is using them in some of its prototype PHEV Sprinter commercial vans. What do environmental groups think of PHEVs?

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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If a go-cart cant legally drive there, then this thing wont be able to either. Video CTIA 2009 Preview Digital Media YouTubes legal end-run irks Korean officials Google has provoked the wrath of government officials through its resistance to a law prohibiting anonymous YouTube uploads and comments. Look at it this way. Video Web 2.0

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