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Odyne Systems delivers 7 plug-in hybrid work trucks through the Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program

Green Car Congress

the vehicles feature the first Odyne hybrid systems installed on Kenworth truck chassis and are the first to power Venturo corner mount cranes, which will be used in sign maintenance and to lift lighting as the county switches to more efficient LED lighting. Manufactured by DUECO, Inc. ComEd received a $1.5

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Germany Launches H2 Mobility Initiative to Expand Infrastructure for Refueling Hydrogen Vehicles

Green Car Congress

In Phase One partners intend to leverage plans to install new hydrogen fuelling stations by 2011. This will take place within the framework of the German economic stimulus package (Konjunkturpaket II) and other national and state programs to jointly address standardization and cost reduction issues.

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ZAP, Zhejiang Jonway Partner to Target China and Export EV Markets

Green Car Congress

ZAP hopes to leverage a stimulus from the government for plug-in forms of transportation. As part of this relationship, ZAP Hangzhou plans to begin the installation of manufacturing operations at Holley’s Hangzhou facilities in the near future. million vehicles in 2009, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Most electric-car makers are working under the assumption that once the battery runs down, cars will recharge at home rather than on the road – limiting the cars to short distances. Nissan has teamed up with AeroVironment and eTec, firms that specialize in installing public charging stations. “That’s going to be tough.&#.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

But success or failure could turn on more mundane matters, like the time it takes car buyers to navigate a municipal bureaucracy to have charging stations installed in their homes. Peevey, leased an electric Mini Cooper, he said, it took six weeks of visits by installers and inspectors before he could plug in his new car at home. “It

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

Nobody was recharging any cell phones or laptops during the 1976 bicentennial year. (I But now all of you can do the same things I did, and you’ll soon be able to get some government stimulus money to use instead of the savings you no longer have. Just like almost everyone else we know today&#. How powerful will that make you?

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. Installation will be made of thousands of in-home control devices and the necessary systems to fully automate home energy use. People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. SZ (1) 6753.T

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