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PSA evaluating Aquarius Engines’ free-piston linear generator for range-extender

Green Car Congress

PSA Groupe is evaluating a free-piston engine linear-generator under development by Israel-based start-up Aquarius Engines for use as a range-extender in its electric vehicles. Two piston rods are aligned with the longitudinal axis, with each piston rod connected at a different side of the piston.

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Hawaii opts for EVs and renewable energy

Revenge of the Electric Car

Another 5% comes from wind and 5% from hydro. Geothermal is particularly attractive since it’s a “forever&# renewable power source much like wind and solar - but without the intermittency of those clean energy sources. There is no pollution to speak of with these plants. Hawaii's 30 MW geothermal power plant.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. While utilities such as E.ON

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The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

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Everything is connected to everything else—that’s the first message to be heard loud and clear from this emerging ‘water revolution’. In Israel, for instance, there are contracts to build these permanent desalination plants, but now it looks like the permits aren’t going to come through.

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