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- Nissan to sell used electric car batteries
- Nissan Motor on Tuesday announced plans to market used lithium-ion batteries from its soon-to-launch Leaf electric car to solar-power generators and other secondary customers, the first major scheme of its kind which could bring down the high cost of owning a zero-emission vehicle.Nissan is to partner with Sumitomo Corp,...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- New Polls Show Strong Consumer Interest in Electric Cars
- Is the world ready for electric vehicles EVs? Yes, says a survey by Better Place, Shai Agassi’s aggressive EV-charging station company. Of course, Better Place  has a vested interest in an affirmative response to that question, but EV interest does seem to be on the rise. According to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Energy Roundup: Speculators On Speculating, No Uranium Enrichment, Coda's Funding and More
- To curb, or not to curb -- Energy speculation has been getting plenty of attention, with legislators threatening to place hard limits on trades. Now the traders are finally mobilizing to fight back, or at least win some concessions. Goldman Sachs, for example, says that trading curbs will disrupt the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Energy Roundup: Oil Lobby Jumps 30%, Nissan's Electric Car, Cleantech VC Funding Spikes, and More
- Oil-and-gas companies boosts lobbying efforts -- Even the "inside the beltway" lobbying machine could not escape the global recession and credit crunch. Overall, the amount of money spent to lobby Congress and the Obama administration fell 1 percent to $814.6 million in the second quarter. There were a couple of exceptions, notably...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf: Where the Triple-Digit Fuel Economy Came From
- The Internet has been buzzing with calculations, many of them erroneous, about how General Motors arrived at its estimate of 230 mpg equivalent for the series hybrid Chevy Volt, due late next year. The smoke has cleared enough that we can get a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Ontario, Home to Major Automakers, Invests in Homegrown Electric Cars
- The city of Windsor, Ontario is a short tunnel ride from downtown Detroit, and the province of Ontario is home to a major automobile industry. A 2006 survey pointed out that Ontario actually builds more cars than Michigan does. According to the survey, the province builds 2.5 million cars...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Greentech Abroad: Australia's 20 Percent and a Million Electric Cars For Germany
- Major moves toward clean energy are taking place in other developed countries as governments find ways to navigate between today's recession and worries of future global warming. In Australia, lawmakers have just passed plans to generate 20 percent of all electricity from renewable sources by 2020, while Germany aims to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- GridPoint Software for World's Biggest Electric Car Deployment
- On August 10, charging company ECOtality (through its subsidiary, eTec) announced that it had been awarded almost $100 million in stimulus money. Working with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the money will support deployment of 12,750 charging stations and 5,000 Nissan Leaf EVs. Although this is being billed as...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Ford Uses Federal Money to Accelerate Electric Car Plans
- Ford was the biggest winner back in June when the Department of Energy announced the first round of its $25 billion loan program for electric vehicles and battery manufacture. The company was funded with $5.9 billion through 2011 to improve the fuel efficiency of a dozen popular vehiclesâ€"from the Taurus...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Leased Electric Car Batteries Take a Big Step Forward
- Electric cars are too expensive for the average consumer -- if you buy the whole vehicle, anyway. Take out the batteries, and you've got something affordable. That pretty much sums up the plans of Nissan and Renault, the two car companies run by Brazilian investor Carlos Ghosn....
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Iceland's President Pushes for EVs...And a 100 Percent Clean Energy Economy
- REYKJAVIK, ICELANDâ€"The President of Iceland lives in Bessastadir, a historic, 19th-century residence on a peninsula. From a distance, it resembles the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, but up close it’s notable for the lack of formality. The trappings of power are anathema in Iceland, where even Bjork can count on...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Indian Electric Car May be Built in Upstate New York
- India’s Reva Electric Car Company may be planning to build a multimillion-dollar auto plant in upstate New York. According to a perhap overeager report in Syracuse’s Post-Standard, the deal includes both state and federal incentives and is in its final negotiating phase. Amazingly enough, because Reva has...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Should Electric Cars Make Noise? U.S. Law May Require It.
- As a car writer, people ask me for advice, and I recently got this communication from friend Etienne via Facebook: “Jim, I need guidance,†it said. “Please...I TRIED and CANNOT get used to the lack of sound when my son’s Honda Civic hybrid..doesn’t make any sound. It gets me nervous. Is...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Week in Renewables: Clean Energy Incentives and Brewing Political Storms
- With the United States' two major CO2-penalizing bills limping through Senate, new legislation and programs aimed instead at rewarding clean energy are popping up everywhere. Earlier this week I mentioned the European Commission's idea to invest almost $100 billion over ten years to research renewables. That's not...
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- If SAP Built The Electric Car
- A hilarious spoof speculating on what would happen if SAP tried to build an electric car reveals issues confronting the enterprise software vendor's actual business. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Exxon Dips Toe in Electric Car Market
- ExxonMobil generally doesn't evoke the kind of "green" images typically associated with the electric car industry. It is afterall, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, and a conservative one at that. The energy giant tends to stick with what it's good at: making money finding, producing and selling fossil...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Tesla Gets $465 Million Government Shot in the Arm
- It's been a big week for Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. And it's only Tuesday. Musk started the week by firing off a detailed rebuttal of sorts -- in a lengthy blog post -- to Martin Eberhard's lawsuit against him. Today, Tesla received $465 million from the Department of Energy to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Odds Keep Improving For Electric Cars
- If personal cars are to move from gasoline to an alternative -- hydrogen, compressed natural gas, batteries or something else -- they'll need new infrastructure to match today's gas stations. It's the chicken-and-egg problem of the transportation industry. Without a way to refuel, why would anyone switch away from standard...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
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