News you might have missed: 27 April 2009

If you missed a few headlines over the past weekend, you can catch up here with Greenbang’s daily review of cleantech news and developments you might have missed:

• Reg Hardware provides details on UK auto startup’s Bee.One, a four-seat electric car designed for local use that will have an estimated price tag of £12,000 and is set to go into production in 2011;
• Over one million homes have improved their energy efficiency with government assistance, according to chancellor Alistair Darling;
• Current economic models on the impact of climate change underestimate the true costs of addressing the problem, according to Sir David King, director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment;
• Engineers at the University of Southampton are part of a team developing new “green” power cables which can be recycled at the end of their lives.