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Li-ion battery maker Boston-Power announces $125M in new financing; focus on and support from China

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The private equity round was led by GSR Ventures, a venture capital firm with more than $1 billion under management that invests primarily in early stage and growth stage technology companies with substantial operations in China. GSR Ventures has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Reorganizing.

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Smith Electric Vehicles US Partners with Clean Fuels Ohio Program To Target $10M in Federal Funding

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Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEV-US) and the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research are participating in the Ohio Electric Drive Initiative as major program partners. The company will initially focus its production on battery-electric-powered vehicles for depot-based predictable-route delivery fleets.

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National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries Opts for Kentucky Site for Li-ion Plant

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NAATBatt is a not-for-profit industry consortium of more than 50 corporations, associations and research institutions dedicated to making the United States a world leader in the manufacture of advanced lithium-ion or Li-Ion battery cells for transportation applications. Earlier post.).

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Billion vs. $28.3

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. Energy” companies are poised to receive the lion’s share of $50 million dollars to install a few more H2 filling stations. GM waxed hot and cold on the EV1.

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

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Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# but not all of it.

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