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Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Green car investment seen settling on electric

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Automakers will find it's too expensive to keep investing in a wide range of clean car technologies and are expected to focus their efforts on bringing electric cars to the mass market, the head of...

Rapid Charging Electric Cars: From Oahu To You

Editor’s Note: This topic was also covered on Gas 2.0: Hawaii to Get Electric Car Battery-Sharing Program Perhaps nothing has been perceived as a greater weakness for electric vehicles than charge times — spending 6 hours...

Project Better Place CEO Calls the Volt a Niche Product

Shai Agassi is the CEO of Project Better Place (PBP). That is a well-financed endeavor to create an infrastructure of battery charging/swapping stations across, at present, Israel and Denmark. The concept is that electric cars...

UPS Joins EPA's ''Climate Leaders'' Program (Business Wire)

Tuesday October 7, 1:06 pm ET ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of its continued commitment to sustainable business practices, UPS (NYSE:UPS - News ) today announced its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection...

USDA & DOE Release National Biofuels Action Plan

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Ed Schafer and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today released the National Biofuels Action Plan (NBAP), an interagency plan detailing the collaborative efforts of...

The Ford Global Challenge - Deakin Uni Air Powered T2 Wins the Prize

Last month, we introduced the Ford Global Challenge, through which Ford sponsored six student teams from around the world to envision and build a 21st century replacement for the Model T Ford, which is celebrating its 100th...

European carmakers seek 40 bln in loans for green vehicles

Paris (AFP) Oct 6, 2008 - European carmakers are seeking 40 billion euros (54 billion dollars) in aid to develop green technologies, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) said Monday.

Lean, green road scene

The center for sustainable energy, based at the City Universitys Bronx Community College campus, hit the road last Friday for its fourth annual Alternative Vehicle Technology Conference, holding the event at nearby Lehman...

Auto industry to tap uni expertise in £200m green car scheme

Five year scheme will fund university research into green car technologies with good prospects of commercialisation Tom Young, BusinessGreen, 07 Oct 2008 The British car industry's efforts to develop low carbon vehicles was...

Battery-run green autos hit Kolkata

After missing umpteen high court deadlines on phasing out smoke-belching vehicles, the state transport department is looking at a proposal that promises to drastically improve the ambient air quality of the city.

               

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