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Chemrec CEO Urges Serious Consideration for DME at Low-Carbon Biofuel for North America

Green Car Congress

Speaking at the 2009 World Methanol Conference in Miami, Richard J. Addressing methanol marketers at the conference, LeBlanc noted that converting methanol into DME offers the methanol industry a new market for its product. It will produce up to 40 million gallons of BioDME or other renewable motor fuels a year.

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Chrysler/DOE Ram PHEV project exploring battery life modeling

Green Car Congress

grid storage and load balancing for the battery pack; and integration with renewable energy. Battery packs in use in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami had the lowest estimated calendar lives, at 11.8, The Ram PHEV is a blended plug-in hybrid, meaning that it doesn’t run exclusively all-electric during its charge depletion period.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The auto industry is now gearing up to hash out those standards at the SAE conference in Detroit next week — and GM has a major stake in getting them out swiftly. Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.] Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.]

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Local In Austin , Mayor Will Wynn and the City Council, along with Austin Energy , are holding a press conference and speaking event with James Woolsey and Chelsea Sexton , formerly with GM and featured in the feature film, Who Killed the Electric Car ? The press conference will be at 3:00 pm at Austin City Hall. Mr. Woolsey and Ms.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

Charged EVs

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). The data is tough because a lot of it is reliant on battery chemistry,” James Litinsky, the CEO of MP Materials, said at the recent All-In Summit in Miami. Farewell to falling prices. There should be a grand bargain.