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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

Trees are natural carbon sinks; they absorb carbon dioxide by photosynthesis, some of which is stored as carbon compounds in the wood—both during growth and even after harvesting, in the form of some wood products. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

The distilleries were referred to as “stills” and the alcohol became known during the Prohibition period as “moonshine.” This process accumulates a certain amount of latent (stored) energy. During the early 1900s, a distillery was a standard piece of farm equipment. This moonshine was hydrous ethanol. As used in this section and Sec.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it. Ford Ranger EV Drivers Page :great info on a great EV Megawatt Motorworks : An electric vehicle information center with links to hundreds of electricvehicle websites, an online store for educational material, and more. Pontiac Fiero : rechargedwith solar array.

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As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

Cars That Think

Consulting firm KPMG , for example, estimates that in addition to the 179 new battery EV model launches and refreshes between 2016 and 2020, at least another 251 are expected between 2021 and 2023 by traditional auto manufacturers, or original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as they are referred to in the industry, as well as start-ups.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Its essentially a set of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels with batteries built in to store power for use when the suns not out, all to be designed and manufactured by BYD. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data. "With better technology, we can reduce the costs.

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