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		<title><![CDATA[Fisker to buy GM plant to produce affordable plug-in hybrids]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ California-based Fisker Automotive is paying USD18m to acquire an old General Motors manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware. An additional USD175m will be spent refurbishing and retooling the site, which will produce the firm&#8217;s Project NINA affordable plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV.        ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:05:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fisker buys GM plant to produce affordable plug-in hybrids]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ California-based Fisker Automotive is paying USD18m to acquire an old General Motors manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware. An additional USD175m will be spent refurbishing and retooling the site, which will produce the NINA plug-in hybrid electric vehicle PHEV.          The car...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:04:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lithium-Ion Batteries Could be Too Expensive, MIT Team Says]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002759/lithium-ion-batteries-could-be-too-expensive-mit-team-says/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[By all appearances, battery-powered cars are ready for prime time. The list of companies planning to introduce new plug-in hybrids and electric battery cars in the next few years is long, and includes General Motors (the Volt and a separate plug-in hybrid), Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Chrysler, Infiniti, Aptera, Tesla (theÂ Model...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Getting Hot in Here: The High-Stakes Debate Over Fuel Economy and Climate Standards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002735/its-getting-hot-in-here-the-high-stakes-debate-over-fuel-economy-and-climate-standards/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to read between the lines of public hearing testimony, and thatâ€™s never truer than in the high-stakes negotiations over fuel-economy and climate standards.    Automotive Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFE standards have been notoriously stagnant, barely changing for 20 years. But in May, automakers, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:21:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Plug-In Hybrid Maker Bright Automotive Still Struggling to Raise Funding]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002704/a-bright-future-indiana-plug-in-hybrid-company-needs-government-funding/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANAâ€"John Waters, President of Bright Automotive, stops the car inÂ an industrial pocket of IndianapolisÂ and gestures at a nondescript building. â€œRight there is where we built the batteries for the General Motors EV-1 battery car. In that building, we tested the first large-format lithium-ion batteries that were used on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:58:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Predicting the 2020 EV Market: Consider the Wild Cards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002679/predicting-the-2020-ev-market-consider-the-wild-cards/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s always fun to predict the future, and the beauty is that if you are projecting far enough ahead no oneâ€™s likely to remember what youâ€™d saidâ€"even if turned out to be egregiously wrong.    How many battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and just plain hybrids will sell...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:19:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Calling Tesla's Repair Rangers: At-Home Service With a Geek Squad Smile]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[    As big companies such as Best Buy start selling electric vehicles EVs, attention will inevitably turn to customer service. Best Buy is selling Brammo electric motorcycles, Segways and plug-in scooters at a few stores in California, and that means the Geek Squad is empowered to fix...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:08:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford Gains a "Global Electrification" Czar]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The twoÂ titles sound rather similar, but itâ€™s definitely a promotion. Nancy Gioia, who was Fordâ€™s director of sustainable mobility technology and hybrid vehicle programs for North America, is nowÂ in an all-new position asÂ director of global electrification. But she was always internationally focused.    Iâ€™ve both interviewed Gioia and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:23:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Carmakers Look East; China's BYD Looks West]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to business growth, the future belongs to China and India. Thatâ€™s especially true in the auto industry, where the established domestic markets in the U.S., Asia and Europe are stagnant or declining, but China and India are experiencing record growth.    The market for electric...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:14:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Business Case for Battery Cars? Look at Tesla]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002469/a-business-case-for-battery-cars-look-at-tesla/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the real business opportunity with battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles? â€œMost of the technology issues are minimal,â€ says Phil Gott, director of automotive consulting atÂ IHS Global Insight. â€œWhat weâ€™re really worried about is the market acceptance by the general consumer.â€    In short, will people be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:05:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WordPress Parent Buys Spell Checker Plug-In]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-wordpress-parent-buys-spell-checker-plug-in%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yet another small purchase for Automattic. The WordPress parent has bought up After the Deadline, a startup behind a free WordPress plugin that provides sophisticated spelling and grammar checking. In a blog post, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg explains that he reached out to After the Deadline&#8217;s only employee, Raphael...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:50:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bright's Big Plug-In Hybrid Production Plans (Conversions, Too)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002341/brights-big-plug-in-hybrid-production-plans-conversions-too/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When President Obama announced on the campaign trail that he wanted to see a million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015, peopleâ€"especially in the auto industryâ€"thought he was dreaming. One company that is taking the goal seriouslyÂ reports Autoblog.com, is Bright Automotive, which thinks it can, all by itself,Â make more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:29:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford Uses Federal Money to Accelerate Electric Car Plans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002256/fords-uses-federal-money-to-accelerate-electric-car-plans/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:33:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Manage Your Office Plug-Ins with Topalt's EnableDisable]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/businesstips/?p=4670]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We all use Microsoft Office (most of us, anyway), but there are surprisingly few tools available to help us make better use of the various add-ins we occasionally install. Do you run an attachment remover? Anti-virus? Office Live? Well, do you know how to turn them on or off? Do...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:00:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GridPoint Software for World's Biggest Electric Car Deployment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10002227/gridpoint-software-for-worlds-biggest-electric-car-deployment/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:28:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volvo has confirmed my earlier reporting that it has built prototypes of a battery electric vehicle based on the C30 coupe, with 130-mile range. Right now there are only one or two such battery cars, says Volvo spokesman Dan Johnston, but a decision on creating fleets of hundreds of them...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outlook Plug-In: Reply All with Attachments]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wished that Outlook would include an e-mail's original attachments when you click Reply All? That's the sole purpose behind Reply All with Attachments, a free Outlook plug-in.    Once installed, the plug-in adds a Custom Actions button to the Outlook 2007 ribbon. Click it to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Tips for Starting a Car Company]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/10001971/five-tips-for-starting-a-car-company/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HavingÂ immersed myself inÂ covering electric vehicle EV and plug-in hybrid startup companies for BNET Autos, I think Iâ€™m in as good a position as any to offer five things companies need to do right to make it in the shark-infested waters of the current highly stressed auto market.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:57:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy Roundup: Google's Plug-In Vehicle Software, Valero Loses Refinery Bid, Cash-for-Clunkers a 'Go', and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google developing smart-charging softwareÂ for plug-in vehiclesÂ -- Google is developing software that will better manageÂ how plug-in electric cars are chargedÂ in an effort to smooth out demand for electricity andÂ keep excessive loads off the power grid.Â There's a concern that asÂ more plug-in electric vehicles hit the road, drivers will charge during peak hours...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:34:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unlike Toyota, Ford is Bullish on Plug-In Hybrids]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ford, the only one of the Big Three not to declare bankruptcy, is nonetheless still in a fairly big hole. For all of 2008, Fordâ€™s sales were down 21 percent. Thereâ€™s a slight hint of a turnaround in the reports from May: although sales were still way down (24.2 percent)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:18:30 -0700</pubDate>
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