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• Think hoping to deliver web-enabled electric car

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:08 am

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Alternativeenergy, Electric Car, Electriccar, Europe, Green, Li Ion, Norway, Think

  Filed under: TransportationWee electric cars such as the one pictured to the right aren't exactly uncommon, but if Think CEO Jan-Olaf Willums can get his dreams to pan out, his version of the urban green car may actually gain some serious traction. Reportedly, the firm has garnered upwards of $78 million from Silicon Valley and European investors

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• Business group calls for urgent targets on renewable energy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:31 am

  Tags: Business Economics Finance, Industry, Electricity Energy Utilities, Environment, Alternative Energy, Government Politics, Federal Government, Australia

  The Business Council for Sustainable Energy says new renewable energy targets are urgently needed to increase levels of green power generation.

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• New alliance to mount anti-nuclear election fight

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:22 am

  Tags: Business Economics Finance, Industry, Electricity Energy Utilities, Indigenous, Environment, Alternative Energy, Conservation, Nuclear Issues, Government Politics, Elections, Federal Government, Activism Lobbying, Nuclear Energy, Australia, Alice Springs 0870

  Anti-nuclear campaigners say they are confident they can make the future of the nuclear industry in Australia an election issue.

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• GM mulling battery rentals for the Chevy Volt

  Published: August 15, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuel, Alternativeenergy, Alternativefuel, Battery, Chevrolet, Chevy, Electric Car, Electric Motor, Electriccar, Electricmotor, General Motors, Generalmotors, Green, Lease, Rent, Volt

  Filed under: Transportation Tossing out the idea of renting / leasing the battery of an electric car isn't exactly revolutionary, but it sounds like GM may be hitching a ride on the ever-growing bandwagon. Reportedly, the firm is mulling the idea of allowing Chevy Volt buyers to "rent the vehicle's battery as a way of pricing the automobile at a

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• Miles XS 500: the $30000 all-electric sedan?

  Published: August 16, 2007, 7:26 am

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuel, Alternativeenergy, Alternativefuel, Electric Car, Electriccar, Green, Miles, Miles Rubin, Miles Xs 500, Milesrubin, Milesxs500

  Filed under: Transportation While a number of fancier all-electric automobiles have still not yet hit the streets en masse, quite a few companies are already looking at the prospects of bringing plug-in cars to a wider range of individuals. One of those folks would be Miles Rubin, who apparently hopes that his "$30,000 Miles XS 500" can deliver

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• Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 breaks 200 miles-per-hour

  Published: August 16, 2007, 7:40 pm

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuel, Alternativeenergy, Alternativefuel, Ballard Power Systems, Ballardpowersystems, Electric Card, Electriccard, Ford, Fuel Cell, Fuelcell, Green, Ohio State University, Ohiostateuniversity, Osu, Roush, Speed, World Record, Worldrecord

  RC cars aren't the only alternatively powered vehicles trying to break 200 miles-per-hour, as Ford just became the "world's first automaker to set a land speed record for a production-based fuel cell powered car." The whip used to set the bar, of course, is none other than the Fusion Hydrogen 999, and it reportedly reached over 207

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• Fujitsu installs hydrogen fuel cell on Sunnyvale campus

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:13 pm

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuel, Alternativeenergy, Alternativefuel, Fuel Cell, Fuel Cell, Fuelcell, Fujitsu, Hydrogen, Silicon Valley, Siliconvalley, Utc Power Purecell, Utcpowerpurecell

  will provide half of the energy necessary to cool the campus data center and labs, and Fujitsu claims that it will have a payback "of about 3.5 years and a lifespan of closer to 15 years." Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• IPO FILING: Orion Energy Systems, Energy Efficient Lighting Backed By GE (GE, OESX)

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Ipos

  company named Orion Energy Systems, Inc. has filed to come public via an IPO. For filing purposes, it has a proposed $100 million stock offering and will trade under the ticker OESX on NASDAQ. Orion lists Thomas Weisel Partners, Canaccord Adams, and Pacific Growth Equities as the underwriters. Orion's designs and manufactures energy

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• IPO FILING: Orion Energy Systems, Energy Efficient Lighting Backed By GE (GE, OESX)

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Ipos

  A lighting-efficiency company named Orion Energy Systems, Inc. has filed to come public via an IPO.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• First all-electric police car takes to the streets

  Published: August 24, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuel, Alternativeenergy, Alternativefuel, Cop, Electric Car, Electriccar, Green, Pennsylvania, Police, Police Car, Policecar

  by a "pure-electric" alternative. The modified Chevy Impala will reportedly cruise for eight hours on a two-hour charge from a 240-volt outlet, but can't chase down baddies in heavy rain for fear of water "destroying its electrical circuits." Furthermore, Coherent Systems International (the car's converter) will be monitoring its

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• Toyota looking to develop recharging points for plug-in hybrids?

  Published: September 3, 2007, 11:04 pm

  Tags: Agreement, Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuel, Alternativeenergy, Alternativefuel, Batteries, Battery, Business, Deal, Edf, Electric Car, Electriccar, Electricite De France, Electricitedefrance, France, Partner, Partnership, Plug In, Plug In Car, Plug Incar, Toyota

  Filed under: Transportation There's been no shortage of news surrounding Toyota and its hybrid plans of late, so it makes perfect sense to hear that the automaker may be on the verge of inking a deal to "develop recharging points for plug-in hybrid electric cars." Reportedly, Toyota and Electricite de France are set to "announce a deal next week

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• How Large Will General Electric's Oil & Gas Operations Become? (GE)

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:41 pm

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Conglomerates, Mergers Buy Outs, Oil Gas

  General Electric (NYSE:GE) is more than formidable and more than an enviable company. It has one of the few remaining pure "AAA" bond ratings, and it still thinks of itself and acts like a growth company. It shed its more volatile finance operation where insurance made earnings predictability more than challenging based upon weather, and it just

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• How Large Will General Electric's Oil & Gas Operations Become? (GE)

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:41 pm

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Conglomerates, Mergers Buy Outs, Oil Gas

  General Electric (NYSE:GE) is more than formidable and more than an enviable company. It has one of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• The Business Day in Global Warming (SWY, BRK-A,TM, SPWR)

  Published: September 13, 2007, 7:33 pm

  Tags: Alternative Energy

  stores with renewable solar energy. The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store in Dublin, California and plans to extend the program to nearly two dozen stores. Congressman Jerry McNerney joined on a tour of the store's rooftop solar panel array. The unit is currently generating electricity to power the

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• The Business Day in Global Warming (SWY, BRK-A,TM, SPWR)

  Published: September 13, 2007, 7:33 pm

  Tags: Alternative Energy, Swy

  Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY) has announced a new environmental project to power 23 California stores... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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