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Assembly Backs Bill Making Electric Cars More Practical and Affordable

Assembly Backs Bill Making Electric Cars More Practical and Affordable | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
The measure will make it easier for customers to purchase electric vehicles.
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Boxer's push is a twist on carbon tax

Boxer's push is a twist on carbon tax | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
Sen. Barbara Boxer plans Thursday to co-sponsor a radical plan to control carbon dioxide emissions modeled on Alaska's rebates of oil royalties to residents.
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Interesting idea for carbon tax..bypass the trading mechanisms and give the money straight to the people...

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Electric vehicles get a charge in Chicago - Chicago Tribune Guide to Fuel-Efficient Cars

Electric vehicles get a charge in Chicago - Chicago Tribune Guide to Fuel-Efficient Cars | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
News about hybrid, electric and alternative-fuel vehicles from the Chicago Tribune
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The beauty of the Solar/Electric mating of technologies is the ability to drive forever on clean power AND push electricity back into the local grid to reduce carbon emitting power usage.

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Tesla stock jumps almost $20 after record $562M in sales and first-ever quarterly profit

Tesla stock jumps almost $20 after record $562M in sales and first-ever quarterly profit | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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 :)....

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Detroit Electric, Geely announce strategic partnership for electric vehicles

Detroit Electric, Geely announce strategic partnership for electric vehicles | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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...

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Fisker Broke Down on the Road to Electric Cars

Fisker Broke Down on the Road to Electric Cars | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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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Not all EV car makers will survive...

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Germany on the Verge of a Subsidy for Energy Storage : Greentech Media

Germany on the Verge of a Subsidy for Energy Storage : Greentech Media | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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!

Stephane Bilodeau's curator insight, 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.

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Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities

Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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.
Stephane Bilodeau's curator insight, 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."

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Detroit Electric: Back and Better than Ever? - Greener Ideal

Detroit Electric: Back and Better than Ever? - Greener Ideal | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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!

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Detroit Electric unveils $135,000 sports car

Detroit Electric unveils $135,000 sports car | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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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As cool as it gets

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California Mayor Announces Bold Solar Mandate

California Mayor Announces Bold Solar Mandate | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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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Now its about time!

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IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels amount to $1.9 trillion a year ... and that's probably an underestimate

IMF says global subsidies to fossil fuels amount to $1.9 trillion a year ... and that's probably an underestimate | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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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And you thought solar power subsidies were costly?

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Aluminium-air battery can power electric vehicles for 1,000 miles, will come to production cars in 2017 | ExtremeTech

Aluminium-air battery can power electric vehicles for 1,000 miles, will come to production cars in 2017 | ExtremeTech | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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).
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Real market forces now drive action on climate change | Graciela Chichilnisky

Real market forces now drive action on climate change | Graciela Chichilnisky | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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Yet another example of how the next generation will redefine "success".

Stephane Bilodeau's curator insight, 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"

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USA TODAY

USA TODAY | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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Now we're going to see Chevy electric sales really "spark"

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Joe Oliver not backing down in battle with EU over oilsands - Politics - CBC News

Joe Oliver not backing down in battle with EU over oilsands - Politics - CBC News | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
Canada's natural resources minister is returning from Europe, continuing to hit back at the many critics of the oilsands.
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we, at renewz, although citizens of Canada..hope that Europe wins this one! Tar sands are DIRTY energy...

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Tesla Model S Tops GM Volt in North American Plug-In Race - Bloomberg

Tesla Model S Tops GM Volt in North American Plug-In Race - Bloomberg | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
Tesla Model S Tops GM Volt in North American Plug-In Race
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Go electrics !

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Chevrolet Spark Most Efficient U.S. Retail Electric Vehicle

Chevrolet Spark Most Efficient U.S. Retail Electric Vehicle | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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...
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Stuff

Stuff | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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It might not be street legal...yet isn't it cool to see EVs being able to do this?

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Fiat Tailors Electric-Car Lease for Range-Anxious Drivers

Fiat Tailors Electric-Car Lease for Range-Anxious Drivers | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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!

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Rise of the 'smart car': an electric vehicle that can power your home by VR-Zone.com

Rise of the 'smart car': an electric vehicle that can power your home by VR-Zone.com | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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 :)..

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Plug-in vehicle sales set a new record in March

Plug-in vehicle sales set a new record in March | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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!!!

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RBC buys Athena Energy, supplier of natural gas to commercial clients in Quebec

RBC buys Athena Energy, supplier of natural gas to commercial clients in Quebec | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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...

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Americans want energy focus on renewables, not oil, poll finds

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?

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Mercedes unveils electric car with Tesla parts - San Francisco Business Times

Mercedes unveils electric car with Tesla parts - San Francisco Business Times | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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...

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Best Cars Around - Top 10 Electric Sports Cars 2013

Best Cars Around - Top 10 Electric Sports Cars 2013 | E-mobility and renewable energy | Scoop.it
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As sexy as cars can get...clean and mean !

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