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When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power).

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What the Nissan Leaf Has Taught Us About Natural Disaster Recovery

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In 2018, the Blue Switch project was created by Nissan as an initiative to promote the use of electric car batteries as viable resources for issues related to disaster prevention, energy management, climate change, and more. “I worked for an electric utility in the ’90s and performed hurricane restoration duties in a GM EV1.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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GM waxed hot and cold on the EV1. It hasn’t led to an immediate abandonment by the automakers of this long over-subsidized initiative, but it will help put a stopper in the drain on resources accelerated under President Bush. California hasn’t blinked in its commitment to Schwarznegger’s pet project, the hydrogen highway.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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April 17, 2009 3:14 pm Link Goodbye GM is right, they h ad an electric car called the EV1 what happened to it? People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery.

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