Companies Recharge Renewable Stimulus 
Green Car Congress
MARCH 9, 2009
says it will pursue funding opportunities arising from the $2 billion allocated for advanced battery technology in the new economic stimulus package. The company has concentrated so far on zinc chloride and lithium batteries, but the Smart NanoBattery can accommodate any chemistry using a liquid electrolyte, depending on requirements.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2010
Startup electric car company Aurica Motors announced a plan to keep the NUMMI plant, which employs 4,700 people, from shutting down when Toyota leaves on 31 March. Aurica is trying to obtain Federal economic stimulus funding to convert NUMMI to electric car manufacturing, but is also open to private financing.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
International Battery (IB), a US manufacturer and developer of large-format lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, has been chosen as the battery system provider for the first-of-its-kind Community Energy Storage (CES) systems, developed by S&C Electric Company for American Electric Power (AEP).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
Car manufacturers: BMW AG, Daimler AG, Ford, General Motors LLC, Honda R&D, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Nissan, Renault, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen. Industrial gas companies : Air Liquide, Air Products, The Linde Group. Industrial gas companies : Air Liquide, Air Products, The Linde Group.
Creative Greenius
JULY 19, 2009
Nobody was recharging any cell phones or laptops during the 1976 bicentennial year. (I Good old, John Bryson, the CEO of Edison International, the parent company of SCE told Thomas Friedman on page 287 of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded &#. I learned all bout this in Joe Romm’s great book, “Hell and High Water&# (c) 2007).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
About $750 million is needed for near-term Volt development, according to the company. Bob Lutz’s Latest Volt Test Drive Sprinting for Green Stimulus Dollars New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You G.M. Short sighted company with a CEO that should have been fired long ago.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
A key thing, he said, will be to recharge the batteries at an acceptable time for the electricity grid — to “make sure people aren’t charging at the very peak, peak time,” like late afternoon when the electricity grid is already weighted down by demands like air conditioning. So how do energy companies cope with such upheaval?
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