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0Plug In America releases first of seven electric vehicle PSAs, Fabio's star turn is yet to come 1289347320
Plug In America's electric vehicle PSAs – Click above to watch videoes after the jumpCan ten years of promoting electric cars be boiled down to 30 seconds? Plug In America would like to suggest that they can, especially if you really mean cramming them into seven 30-second ads (or, to use ... -
Lancaster, CA trying to make friends with China; BYD in particular 1266018960
2009 BYD F3DM – Click above for high-res image galleryHow does an American town try to appeal to Chinese companies thinking of expanding to the U.S.? How about by making a little video? Lancaster, CA's mayor, R. Rex Parris, gave his review of a recent promotional video the town is going to ... -
It's Friday: George Bailey's electric car runs out of juice 1265997960
EVCast's George Bailey video – Click above to watch video after the jumpOur friends at the EVCast aren't afraid to show the plug-in vehicle world their comedic side. From EVCast, the Musical to the Hitler movie clip meme getting the Tesla treatment to finding the, ahem, prototype Aptera, ... -
Squaring off, again: plug-in advocates respond to anti-PHEV report 1261516200
Recently, a report came out of the National Academies of Science that declared the costs for plug-in hybrids were "likely to remain high" while the benefits would be "modest for decades." With such a tantalizing bit of contrarianism, how could it not make the pages of the New York Times? The ...
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PREDICTION: Shift to electric vehicles could create 1 million jobs by 2020 1260468360
Just how electric vehicles will change the world is an evolving debate, but one new analysis says that EVs and connected industries could be a $300 billion business by 2020 and create over a million jobs globally along the way. In the U.S., somewhere between 125,000 and 300,00 jobs could be ...
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At Witz' End: Notes from "The Business of Plugging In" 1257785640
Bright IDEA PHEV at the Business of Plugging In conference - Click above for high-res image galleryEV business may be booming soon I dropped by the Center for Automotive Research's (CAR) "The Business of Plugging In" conference in Detroit recently and came away with a collection of quotes and ... -
Lists? Yeah, electric vehicles get on lists. Hopeful, hopeful lists 1255986060
Tesla Roadster – Click above for high-res image galleryHere are five technologies that "could change everything": Advanced car batteries Carbon capture and storage Space-based solar power Utility storage Next-generation biofuels This is the list culled by the Wall ... -
Columnist: Plug-in cars are the new ethanol-style boondoggle 1246474560
Peapod - click above for high-res image galleryThe amount of money that the U.S. federal government poured into corn ethanol is legendary. Today, we're left with a floundering ethanol economy and a few happy corn farmers but not an abundance of the biofuel powering the nation's cars. A columnist ... -
$2 billion? Nah, more like $12.5 billion for plug-in cars in the stimulus bill 1235264160
When the big stimulus bill was passed this week, the number that rose to the forefront was a $2 billion investment for plug in vehicles. But, if you add in all the additional plug-in help for things like infrastructure, the actual plug-in stimulus package is closer to $12.5 billion, according to ...
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Will it be your Destiny to live in a Florida eco-village? 1232727000
Photo by Felipe Venâncio. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.While Newark moves to implement V2G technology and Austin makes solar panels a good deal, one community is trying to be the "first eco-sustainable city" in America. Reading about the new intentional community called ...
