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Honda Debuts Solar-powered Hydrogen Fueling Station [Ecofriend]

"The station will enable users to refill their clean vehicles without the requirement of hydrogen storage system. During daytime the hydrogen station will export renewable electricity to the grid while remaining energy neutral."

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Posted January 28, 2010
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Audi's Green News

"the company announced that an e-tron vehicle is expected to be ready by 2012. Audi's strategy for electric vehicles is to skip the 'mild hybrids' that use electric motors just as a boost to the gasoline engine and instead focus on full hybrids."

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Posted January 13, 2010
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Cadillac's Hybrid Luxury Concept Car Unveiled

"The XTS has two electric motors and a gas engine controlled by a computer that decides the most efficient combination."

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Posted January 12, 2010
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Toyota Will Have A Plug-In Hybrid in 2011 [NYTimes]

Kimimasa Mayama/Bloomberg News

Takeshi Uchiyamada, vice president of Toyota, demonstrated how to charge the battery of the Prius plug-in hybrid in Tokyo on Monday.

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Posted December 14, 2009
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Nissan Trying To Ramp Up Charging Infrastructure For EVs

"The Japanese automaker is working with Ecotality to bring 11,210 chargers and 4,700 Nissan Leaf electric cars to five states — Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and Tennessee. Ecotality is getting a big assist from the Department of Energy, which has granted the Arizona company $99.8 million to underwrite The Electric Vehicle Project. Ecotality calls it “the largest deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure in history.”

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Posted October 13, 2009
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Autopia -- "Auto Racing Must Go Electric"

"Such an effort would inevitably lead to better EVs and introduce the masses to the technology."

Photo credit: E-Wolf

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Posted September 23, 2009
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Fisker releases production schedule and shoots for profitability in 2011

GreenBeat has a story on Fisker's production and profitability plans. I'm assuming the "government funds" piece falls under a cleantech or sustainability funding program.

Camille Ricketts says the carmaker will sell 15,000 cars and target profitability by 2011.

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Posted September 18, 2009
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Fisker may have a plug-in for $39k

"Ray Lane, managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, told an audience at the Always On Going Green conference in Sausalito, Calif., on Tuesday that there could be a big announcement within the next week about a $39,000 plug-in hybrid. Though he would not say who, he mentioned that it was a car for the U.S. market and that it was not strictly electric, according to a report from Cleantech Group."

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Posted September 16, 2009
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CNET's Speeds And Feeds on BMW's Hybrid Engineering

"these approaches will need to be developed substantially before they can reduce the total cost of owning and operating a motor vehicle. But it's clear that BMW, having waited this long to get into the hybrid car business, is giving its customers two very different choices. What the company does in the future will probably depend on how its customers respond."

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Posted September 14, 2009
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Audi Hints At An Electric Vehicle (EV)

"The rumors got started in May with a report that Audi was working on an electric version of the Audi R8, a thought that left us weak in the knees. Audi quickly quashed such rumors, but it has rekindled them by launching a micro-site that all but screams “We’re bringing an EV to Frankfurt!”

“On Septembeer 15, 2009, electricity and all its force and power will run wild and free and completely untamed,” the site says.

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Posted September 4, 2009
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