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by Greg Cruey on September 24, 2009
Electric car maker Fisker has put a date on its plans to turn a profit: 2011.Fisker Automotive, prime Tesla Motors competitor and maker of the luxury plug-in hybrid vehicle known as the Karma, has ann...
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by Greg Cruey on August 12, 2009
BusinessWeek took a close look last week at the problems users may havwe to put up with if they buy BMW's Mini E. While they pick on BMW in the article, the problems aren't unique.Mike Graham,...
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by Greg Cruey on May 27, 2009
VentureBeat pointed out last week that $2 billion worth of federal grants were being awarded to battery makers in the near future. Grants will run between $100 million and $150 million. The deadline t...
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by Greg Cruey on May 22, 2009
There's been a lot of nergy legislation news in the past couple of weeks. But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal supportfunding for hydrogen cars s...
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by Greg Cruey on April 9, 2009
TreeHugger published a piece last week on the possibilityrumor that Japan's government may start encouraging green cars ownership with a $3000 (300,000 yen) subsidy.The Japanese media has been rep...
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by Greg Cruey on March 21, 2009
TreeHugger had a piece last week on development in Spain's move to electric cars.The pretty southern Spanish town of Seville has been chosen along with the capital Madrid and the northern hub Barc...
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by Greg Cruey on March 14, 2009
Norwegian car maker Th!nk is in the news at the moment.
Treehugger describes Th!nk as having "a long and troubled history - gone bankrupt twice, changed hands a couple of times (including a shor...
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by Greg Cruey on March 12, 2009
I guess everybody needs a little glamour and luxury from time to time. There's no reason that alternative energy shouldn't get some...
BusinessWeek has a piece this week on the debut in Genev...
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by Greg Cruey on February 16, 2009
As the internal combustion engine is slowly replaced in by electric car engines, the economic balance of power in the world will shift. OPEC will be replaced (eventually) by economic powerhouses that ...
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by Greg Cruey on February 10, 2009
Justin Moresco had an interesting piece yesterday morning about Ireland's efforts to attract foreign investment by becoming a model for the switch to electric cars and electric car parts. The gove...
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by Greg Cruey on January 15, 2009
Treehugger is reporting that Norwegian automaker THINK has found the funding it needs to resume making cars.The Oslo-based company said that it had secured NOK 40 million ($5.7 million) in loans which...
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by Greg Cruey on December 20, 2008
While automakers in the US and Japan worry about how to cope with the global recession, one China car maker has made the great leap forward into the world of plug-in hybrids.
According to Business W...
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by Reden Rodriguez on May 5, 2007
There is an on-going coal Versus ethanol issue now in the US senate. It looks like the US Senate may legislate the replacement of one fourth of the US national gasoline with bioethanol and then furthe...
