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Mazda Demios To Be Base Architecture for Electric Vehicle Test Project

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The Tsukuba Environmental Style Test Project is scheduled to commence in March 2010 in Tsukuba city, near Tokyo, Japan. The project aims to comprehensively assess a low-carbon energy network composed of electric vehicles (EVs), rapid chargers, fixed battery stations, solar panels and a car sharing service.

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SAE technical experts: fuel cell technology has advanced significantly, FC vehicle production has begun, further cost reductions & infrastructure development required

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Takashi Moriya, Senior Chief Engineer at Honda R&D, re-iterated Honda’s strategic focus on electrification as the main pathway toward reducing greenhouse gases, and shift to renewable sources of energy. Honda also sees the possibility of a “hydrogen-powered society” based on renewable energy and renewable-energy-generated hydrogen.

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PNNL study outlines requirements for grid storage, reviews four electrochemical energy storage systems: vanadium redox flow, Na-beta, Li-ion and lead-carbon

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Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. The percentages are higher in Europe and Japan, at 10% and 15%, respectively, largely because of favorable economics and government policies.) electricity) to hybrid and electrical vehicles, although the cost of implementing EES is of great concern.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Nissan has a memorandum of understanding with One North East, the regionaldevelopment agency, to potentially use its Sunderland plant to produceelectric vehicles, but its first cars will all come from Japan. BMW’s Oxfordplant is the sole source of the Mini so if an electric Mini goes intoproduction it will start there.