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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library The engineers at AC Propulsion (ACP) were familiar with the basic precepts of bidirectional EV power. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Greenius On The Green Scene - The South Bay Report

Creative Greenius

Today they both drive electric cars powered from the charge generated via their rooftop solar panels. If everyone had as small a carbon footprint and lived as lightly on the land as Dency does, we wouldn’t be in the climate mess we’re in today. Sounds like a Greenius kind of movie. Can’t wait to see it.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Plug them in, charge them up, drive silent, drive clean. You say you’re looking for something a little larger? It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. This might have been the most important electric vehicle at the parade. I told you the beautiful people were all there.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

Green Car Congress

Understand the transport of charge carriers in synthetic disordered systems, which hold promise as new materials for conversion of solar energy to electricity and electrical energy storage. Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency Through Molecule- Scale Control. $16. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Center for Excitonics. $19.

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Opinion: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Since electric vehicles have no carbon emissions while running, they are much better for the environment than traditional cars. As the world continues to move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy , electric cars will become even more environmentally friendly. Charging can be a challenge. Better performance.

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Power Companies Driving Drunk With Power – If Only PG&E and SCE Didn’t Hate Rooftop Solar So Much We Might Meet Our AB 32 Emission Reductions.

Creative Greenius

The Greenius says, the state should call this the Dunce Cap program since it makes fools out of anyone who thinks this is the way to get solar power on all the roofs in California that can generate clean, green renewable energy. California has a Renewable Portfolio Standard that calls for us to be at 20% renewable energy this year, 2010.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

As part of the culling, GM has the option to re-badge vehicles from the non-core brands, such as the Pontiac G8, Opel Insignia and Saturn Vue. Re-badging is a sensitive topic with the OEMs and their desire to highlight the differences among brands. With CAFE’s renewed emphasis on fuel economy, from 26 mpg in 2010 to 35.5

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