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Tesla Motors, Toyota, ECD Ovonics make Plenty Magazine's top green companies list

Stan and Iris Ovshinsky are the often-unheralded pioneers of today's hybrid cars. But the company they started in 1960, ECD Ovonics (at the time called Energy Conversion Devices), was selected by Plenty Magazine - which writes about environmental issues with the slogan "It's Easy Being Green" - as one of the Plenty 20. The companies on this list are the ones that "will change the world" according to the cover blurb, and ECD Ovonics shares space on the list with Tesla Motors, Toyota and more that aren't as directly tied into the automotive ... Read more →

Is it fair to compare battery inventor and hydrogen, solar advocate Stanford Ovshinsky with Thomas Edison? Mike Magda

To list all of Stanford Ovshinsky's achievements would take half the storage on our server, but few environmentalists really know of him. Fifty years ago he envisioned a hydrogen economy and is the ...

Pioneer in alternative fuels, energy remembered Mike Magda

A Detroit columnist for an alternative weekly recently chastised his local comrades for not recognizing the monumental achievements of Iris Ovshinsky when she died in a drowning accident two weeks ...

Tesla Motors, Toyota, ECD Ovonics make Plenty Magazine's top green companies list 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Stan and Iris Ovshinsky are the often-unheralded pioneers of today's hybrid cars. But the company they started in 1960, ECD Ovonics (at the time called Energy Conversion Devices), was selected by Plenty Magazine - which writes about environmental issues with the slogan "It's Easy Being Green" - as ...

Is it fair to compare battery inventor and hydrogen, solar advocate Stanford Ovshinsky with Thomas Edison? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

To list all of Stanford Ovshinsky's achievements would take half the storage on our server, but few environmentalists really know of him. Fifty years ago he envisioned a hydrogen economy and is the inventor of the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery that is utilized in hybrid vehicles. Many other ...

Pioneer in alternative fuels, energy remembered 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

A Detroit columnist for an alternative weekly recently chastised his local comrades for not recognizing the monumental achievements of Iris Ovshinsky when she died in a drowning accident two weeks ago. We should also receive a few lashes for missing the news. Iris and her husband Stan founded Energy ...


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