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Optinol estimates its biobutanol process can achieve energy cost parity with ethanol

Green Car Congress

The net result is a high yield and commercially robust process to produce low cost butanol at a price competitive with ethanol. The process has been tested with a wide variety of feedstocks including sugar cane juice, corn starch, sweet sorghum juice, molasses types including sugar cane and beets and cellulosic sugars.

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SDG&E to Test Mobile Smart Charging Device for Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will test and evaluate a mobile smart charging device for plug-in electric vehicles developed by Juice Technologies LLC. SDG&E and Juice Technologies presented a prototype of the Juice Technologies Plug Smart intelligent charging device at the Plug-In 2009 Conference in Long Beach, CA.

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Anker’s new 768Wh SOLIX C800 Plus power station with stowable camping light officially ships in March

Baua Electric

These lights can easily be recharged by stowing them back inside the top of the power station case, keeping them juiced for whenever you may need them. Anker’s SOLIX C800 Plus is now available for pre-order The Anker SOLIX C800 Plus Portable Power Station is now available for pre-order with a discounted $499 price tag.

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Sixthreezero launches the electric trike everyone says they actually want

Baua Electric

Some things are constant in the universe. But Sixthreezero has managed to do it without the price skyrocketing – and they’ve even added in a leaning mechanism, too! But $2k for a leaning tadpole e-trike is actually a really good price, believe it or not. Entropy always tends towards disorder. Taxes always come around.

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3 Key EV Charging Infrastructure Issues that need to be Addressed

Clean Fleet Report

Looking for Solutions for Juice for your Electric Car Many people love the environmental appeal of electric vehicles (EVs). Concentration of Charging Points When people are in the market for vehicles, they must consider aspects such as price, safety and how well the automobiles align with their lifestyles.

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We’re the New Renewables

Cars That Think

JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. Korea University 3D Printed Amps for mm-Wave Wireless on the Cheap Millimeter-wave power amplifiers are necessary for applications that require the highest data rates possible—mostly communications across vast distances.

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

Cars That Think

Some observers thought V2G could prevent the kinds of price spikes and rolling blackouts then plaguing the Golden State. Major utilities were compelled to purchase high-cost peaking power, and because retail prices were capped, they could not pass their costs on to consumers. After earning a Ph.D.

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