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Tesla Model S Tops GM Volt in North American Plug-In Race
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NEW YORK – The 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV is the industry benchmark in retail electric vehicle efficiency with a combined city/highway EPA estimated range of 82 miles when fully charged and an EPA-estimated combined city/highway 119 MPGe fuel economy... Delete the scoop?
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It might not be street legal...yet isn't it cool to see EVs being able to do this? Delete the scoop?
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With this summer’s release of the all-electric Fiat 500e in California, the Italian brand is offering a special retail plan that allows customers who buy or lease the car to occasionally swap it out for another gas-engine Chrysler vehicle if they...
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As brilliant as it gets! Bravissima Fiat! Somebody is finally understanding the barriers to EV acquisition and attacking it front and center! Delete the scoop?
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Seamless smart phone integration and the ability to power your home are the key features the recently resurrected automaker Detroit-Electric is offering with its new production vehicle the SP:01.
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V2G (vehicle to grid) technology has arrived. Leave it to a hundred year old company to get it to market quicker than much younger electric ones :).. Delete the scoop?
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Please don’t tell any of the mainstream media, but US plug-in vehicle sales reached a new all-time high in March. Interestingly, pure EV sales (4750) outnumbered PHEV sales (3080), which
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Look out world...the pure electrics are gaining ground!!! Delete the scoop?
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TORONTO - Royal Bank (TSX: RY) has acquired Athena Energy Group, a privately held supplier of natural gas to commercial clients in Quebec.
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Banks now managing energy like they would currency...as risk mitigating properties. Wow... Delete the scoop?
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A new Gallup survey shows that Americans want the government to focus more on tapping sources of clean or renewable energy.
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While Americans want renewables are they willing to properly tax fossil fuel sources tam make it a level playing field? Delete the scoop?
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An all-electric Mercedes with a drivetrain and battery pack co-developed by Tesla...
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At some point either Toyota or Mercedes will make a play for a larger chunk of Tesla... Delete the scoop?
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As sexy as cars can get...clean and mean ! Delete the scoop?
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Does Suntech’s insolvency reflect Beijing’s desire for solar consolidation? Not really, says GTM Research.
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With the largest solar company in China, going bankrupt, many in the west will look sideways the next time a Chinese renewable energy provider wants to go public. The reality is that the Chinese local and state governments will pick up the factories, to keep employment going. They will then direct those factory productions to internal use by promoting renewable energy. The state becomes producer and consumer, reducing its costs. How is this different from Hydro Quebec, which owns the hydro power here, and exports it to other markets for major profit? So before running to criticize the chinese, remember General Motors and Chrysler who depended on US government bailout funds too. Delete the scoop?
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YouTube recently opened a brand new state-of-the-art studio in Los Angeles, where they invite people to come and tell their stories on YouTube. Anyone, well almost anyone, can come in and use all the
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If the next gen isn't a TV watching generation why would Apple launch a regular TV box? I think that the integration of channels like Netflix and YouTube is as (or more) important than other channels now watched... Delete the scoop?
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Electric car manufacturer Tesla's stock jumped in after-hours trading today after the company announced the first quarterly profit in the its ten-year history, and record sales of over half a billi...
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This is HOW you do it :).... Delete the scoop?
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Detroit Electric and Geely announce new partner to make electric vehicles for the Chinese market at the Shanghai Auto Show.
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Nice work Albert and Don. These partnerships will carve out a very different kind of car company... Delete the scoop?
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With technical problems, management turmoil and losses, Fisker offers a cautionary tale of alternative-fuel vehicles and government subsidies for start-up businesses.
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Will cover battery systems connected to photovoltaic installations
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Power is Creation, Management, Storage...and now finally a country is stepping up and supporting the last leg of the cleantech circle..go Germany! 
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April 17, 7:49 PM
The energy storage system is meant to be used in tandem with distributed solar installations with storage systems developed in Germany; the funds come with a maximum size requirement of 30 kilowatts. Delete the scoop?
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Rooftop solar panels and other distributed-energy tools will radically shake up the power sector, according to an unusually frank report from a utility trade group. (Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S.
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April 14, 7:58 AM
"Back in January, the Edison Electric Institute — the (typically stodgy and backward-looking) trade group of U.S. investor-owned utilities — released a report [PDF] that, as far as I can tell, went almost entirely without notice in the press. That’s a shame. It is one of the most prescient and brutally frank things I’ve ever read about the power sector. It is a rare thing to hear an industry tell the tale of its own incipient obsolescence." Delete the scoop?
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Until just recently, electric vehicles were widely regarded as creatures of the future. Like flying cars, rocket-propelled shoes, and robots that do housework—we regularly thought of EVs as things more suited to George Jetson than Fred Flinstone.
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It is the leadership of Don Graunstadt and Albert Lam that has us excited about this most recent company in the electric field. Can't wait for the August launch! Delete the scoop?
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Detroit - Resurrected automaker Detroit Electric "put the stake in the ground" Wednesday night with the debut of its first vehicle at new headquarters inside the Fisher Building: an all-electric, carbon fiber and aluminum SP:01 sports car.
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From Mother Nature Network's Matt Hickman: In the high desert city of Lancaster, Calif., not too far from where telephone pole-hoarding folk hero Alan Kimble Fahey was forced to demolish his home and where a former member of the Deadly Viper...
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A new IMF study finds that global fossil fuel subsidies amount to $1.9 trillion a year. But the real truth could be more eye-popping yet.
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Phinergy, an Israeli startup, has demonstrated an aluminium-air battery that is capable of powering an electric vehicle for up to 1,000 miles (1,609km). Delete the scoop?
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Yet another example of how the next generation will redefine "success".
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March 23, 8:42 AM
"The largest source of carbon emissions – about 45% of all emissions globally – are electricity generation power plants that burn fossil fuels. The idea behind emissions trading – the political shorthand has become "cap and trade" – is that mandated carbon emissions limits will drive a robust market as cleaner plants seek to sell their unused allowances. Dirty power plants have to pay cleaner power plants for rights to emit, creating an economic incentive for plants to run cleaner. Technology innovation and infrastructure investment would follow and electricity producers would strive to become sellers not buyers of emissions allowances" Delete the scoop?
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China has many heavily polluted cities, a strong green technology industry, and may be the country where electric vehicle adoption takes off first.
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we, at renewz, although citizens of Canada..hope that Europe wins this one! Tar sands are DIRTY energy...