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Pedego Moto puts the ‘fun’ in functional transportation

Baua Electric

No other bike company is doing more to get Americans onto e-bikes. With their excellent brick-and-mortar stores, many, if not most, Americans’ first e-bike experience is renting or trying an e-bike at a Pedego store. I’m here to say this thing is different in a number of important ways. It is $3995.

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Fast Food, Fast Charge

Cars That Think

And since even the speediest DC chargers take roughly 30 minutes to juice up an EV, drivers and passengers have time to kill, including enough time for a bite. To keep cars and passengers full, 7-Eleven and Subway are among companies planning to serve up EV charging along with their Big Gulps and sandwiches. 90 percent of the U.S.

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NREL and Ecopetrol in $2.3M CRADA agreement to optimize conversion of waste biomass to ethanol

Green Car Congress

The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. The plant spoils quickly if the sugars aren’t squeezed out.

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SDG&E to Test Mobile Smart Charging Device for Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will test and evaluate a mobile smart charging device for plug-in electric vehicles developed by Juice Technologies LLC. SDG&E and Juice Technologies presented a prototype of the Juice Technologies Plug Smart intelligent charging device at the Plug-In 2009 Conference in Long Beach, CA.

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Chromatin announces dual-purpose hybrid sorghum for sugar and bioenergy production

Green Car Congress

Chromatin’s SweetFuel hybrids are designed to capture the value of sugars produced in sorghum juice as well as the additional value of the energy stored in biomass or bagasse. is a privately-held growth stage company that provides technology, seeds and biomass to cleantech and agriculture markets. Chromatin Inc. Chromatin, Inc.

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Raízen breaks ground on Iogen cellulosic ethanol facility in Brazil

Green Car Congress

BNDES noted that this will be the first project that uses technologies for conversion of bagasse and cane straw at industrial scale that is fully integrated into the process of conventional ethanol, obtained from the juice of sugar cane (first generation). The technology being deployed has undergone extensive testing and validation work.

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How One Bad Manny Can P**s Away Your Brand

Creative Greenius

Cluelessness is the brand attribute of arrogant companies who only see their customers as wallet share opportunities. Just the kind of informed customer companies like Leviton find “tiresome.” He tested our breakers and NEMA outlet and all were working and providing juice. But the number was no longer in service.

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