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Plug In America seeks an outstanding advertising sales manager for the 2011 edition of “Charged Up & Ready To Roll: The Definitive Guide To Plug-in Electric Vehicles,” a unique consumer resource guide first published in January 2010 to great reviews. Read More...

By: Michael J. Walsh
Those of us patiently waiting on the new generation of mass-produced EVs are already fretting issues like battery warranty and replacement cost. Coy manufacturers are really not helping alleviate this anxiety all that much. Read More...

Marlboro Nissan is pushing to be the top selling norwood dealership for the Nissan Leaf. It’s arrival in 2011 to the Newton area puts them in the top spot to offer this exciting new vehicle to the New England market. Read More...

At the end of March, oil posted its fifth consecutive quarterly price increase: It’s now solidly above $80 per barrel. If it reaches $125 a barrel again, as it did in 2008, then approximately half the wealth in the world—above and below ground—will be controlled by OPEC nations. Read More...

EV Power Systems, Inc. (EVPS) and Energy Dimensions, LLC announced a partnership today to market EVPS’ plug-in, hybrid-electric (PHEV) retrofit drive system for electric utility, light-duty trucks. The new PHEV systems increases miles per gallon (mpg) by 30 percent with a return on investment (ROI) of approximately 30 percent at current fuel prices in start/stop applications. This patented system does not require any changes to the truck’s existing systems and can be install in a day or less usually by in-house staff. Read More...

The potential electric car future will get a reboot in December, when a thousand new cars are scheduled to arrive in the region, supported by the beginnings of a new recharging infrastructure. Read More...

Toyota Motor Corp delivered a lecture on the development of its lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery at the 3rd Int’l Automotive Electronics Technology Expo, which took place from Jan 20 to 22, 2010, in Tokyo. Read More...

For years, the electric cars on display at the Detroit auto show looked like something Captain Kirk would drive. Read More...

BELLEVUE, Wash. – (Business Wire) The future of transportation parked at Bellevue Square this morning, just like thousands of other cars and trucks do daily – the difference is that the future is quieter, cleaner and boasts zero tailpipe emissions. Read More...

Boulder, Colorado – Driven by demand for plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles, which require much larger battery packs than conventional hybrids, the market for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries will reach US$8 billion worldwide by 2015, up from $878 million in 2010, according to a report by Pike Research. Read More...

A small California company called BioSolar is introducing plastic components for photovoltaic (PV) cells based on cotton and castor oil that are described as less costly than plastics based on petroleum. Read More...

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There are plenty of things about driving to make your blood pressure rise: screaming kids in the back, crappy songs on the radio, rising gas prices, idiot drivers who don’t know what they’re doing and need to get off the phone and keep their eyes on the road and…
Whew, sorry, got a little hot under the collar there. Anyway, researchers from Egypt just published a study in BMC Physiology identifying another ubiquitous aspect of driving that could be making drivers angier: gas fumes. The scientists exposed some rats to fumes of leaded gas (which you can still buy in Egypt) and others to unleaded, but both groups became more prone to chattering their teeth, arching their backs, and biting.
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U.S. and Chinese Presidents, Barack Obama and Hu Jintao, more or less announced their partnership in clean energy technology last Tuesday. Specifically, the two signed official documents declaring their “cooperation on climate change, energy and environment.”
Their first task will be constructing a U.S-China Clean Energy Research Center in a joint effort to promote clean energy. The $150 million research center will facilitate research and development of clean energy technology by groups of engineers and scientists from the U.S. and China. The center will be both publicly and privately funded evenly between the two countries over the course of its predicted five-year construction period. Their current research priorities include energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles.
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IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTWW), today announced that it and its subsidiary, Quantum Solar Energy, Inc. (“Quantum Solar”), has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with New Energy Systems, LLC (“NES”), which sets forth the terms by which NES would invest $20 million in Quantum Solar in exchange for a 34% ownership interest in Quantum Solar. Quantum Solar will use the investment proceeds to establish a state of the art solar photovoltaic module manufacturing facility in Irvine, California, with an expected annual capacity of 45 MW.
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General Motors will announce Wednesday that it’s working with one of the largest advocacy organizations for the vision-impaired to find ways for the next-generation electric cars to make enough noise that pedestrians can hear them coming. Read More...