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Better Place, Shai Agassi’s electric car revolution, has joined not-for-profit NGO The Climate Group to help accelerate the transition away from the internal combustion engine. We’ve sung the praises of Better Place before on Greenbang for its plan to set up country-wide networks and grids of charging stations
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Ford submitted its latest begging letter – sorry, business planning assumption – to the US Congress this week, outlining how it is a viable long-term business that will return to profitability and how the US car manufacturing market is worthy of being propped up in the short term with a government bail
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Greenbang loves James Dyson, he of the eponymous vacuum cleaner. She’s not really sure why. It’s just the same fuzzy unthinking affection she normally reserves for Labrador puppies and elaborately wrapped boxes of chocolates. Now Greenbang has a reason to love him even more: the scamp is devoting
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Greenbang would like to say: electric solar wind sail. Nope, she’s not trapped in a youthful hell playing Mallett’s Mallet, being smacked over the head with a rubber hammer, she’s just describing an incredible invention out of Finland: an electric solar wind sail. Not only a great
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And if Arnie’s hydrogen handouts weren’t enough to delight the very (fuel) cells of your being, the UK now getting its own hydrogen fuelling station. Hurrah! If you want to check it out though, you’re going to wend your way to Birmingham, where Brum academics are planning
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Good news, all. It looks like the chicken licken ‘the sky is falling in’ type predictions that have dogged electric cars might not actually be about to come true: people can plug in and recharge their hybrid cars from a wall plug socket, without bringing down the electricity grid and
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Now, Greenbang doesn’t want to sound churlish here, but when she initially read reports on new research Oak Ridge National Laboratory research bearing titles along the lines of ‘plug in hybrid vehicles could affect electricity supply’, she thought “Well, durr.” After all, if you suddenly start putting lots of
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Hoorah! Ladies and gentleman, bust out the cigars and charge your glasses, for we are about to witness the birth of a beautiful baby electric car. Yes, that’s right, Tesla is finally about to bring forth its long awaited Roadster. The car went into production this week, according to
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Like bees on honey and flies on, you know, whatever flies go for, VCs have been going mad for electric cars of late. After Tesla got a cool $40 million funding boost last week, now it’s the turn of Miles Electric Vehicles. The company has just been given a